RootsMagic Features

Below are the features of RootsMagic™ 4.

= Feature new to version 4.

Features

• UK Version (only available through S&N Genealogy Supplies).
• UK Live Spell Checker and Thesaurus
• UK Content
• RootsMagic-To-Go - Carry your research with you on a USB memory stick
• Support for BMD quarter and Quaker dates
• View 5 or 6 generations at once on the pedigree view
• View 2 through 7 generations at once on the descendant view
• Easily track multiple relationships, such as adoptions, foster parents, etc
• Integrated backup and restore help safeguard your data
• Back up directly to CD
  

Easy to Learn and Use

• Sidebar on main screen
• Easier file management with one file databases
• Switch between pedigree, family, descendant, people and WebSearch views
• Alternate names in lists
• Named Groups of People
• Streamlined edit screen
• Family members are automatically linked as you add them
• Automatically checks for duplicates as you add people
• Just double click on a person's name to edit that person
• RootsMagic Explorer lets you find and edit anyone in your family tree
• Resize edit and search dialogs to see as much information as you want
• Customize the tool bar to include the functions you use most
• Select toolbar button style
• Easy to use Explorer-like help system
• Video tutorial included on Standard and Platinum Editions
• Easy to use Explorer-like help system

Organise Your Information

• Sharing events among multiple people
• Open multiple databases on screen at the same time
  Drag and drop people between databases
• Automatically link dragged people into the other database
• Open multiple copies (and views) of the same database
  Add unlimited people, facts/events, notes, sources, and more
• 60 predefined fact types (birth, marriage, death, occupation, religion, etc)
• Create your own user defined fact types
• See a person's age at every event on their edit page
• Add private events that you can suppress from printing or exporting
• Add private notes that you can suppress from printing or exporting
• Display relationships to root person on status bar
• Publish Your Family History
• Make shareable CDs to give to others, with custom menu and a read-only version of RootsMagic
• RootsMagic Publisher lets you create complete books with narrative, notes, charts, photos, source bibliography, index, and more
• Include cover and title pages, copyright, dedication, acknowledgement, preface pages
• Include table of contents
• Include free form text pages
• Customize your index format and number of columns
• Print to printer, Adobe Acrobat (PDF), or export to your word processor (RTF)
• Customize headers, footers, margins, fonts for any printout
  

Spectacular Wall Charts

• Ancestor Wall Charts in any orientation (left to right, bottom to top, etc)
• Descendant Wall Charts in any orientation (top to bottom, left to right, etc)
• Hourglass Charts (combined ancestors and descendants) in any orientation (top to bottom, left to right, etc)
• Timeline Charts
• Drag and drop to resize and move individual boxes
• Add a background image or colour
• Print charts up to 57 feet wide (Note: Windows prior to XP/NT max. size 26 feet)
• Print charts on regular size paper and tape together, or print on large format printer
• Export charts to JPG, EMF, and other graphic formats
• Add freeform text, photos, and shapes to your charts

Reports

• Improved custom report designer
• Improved report engine
• Direct e-mailing of reports
• Pedigree Charts (standard and cascading)
• Family Group Sheets
• Narrative reports (modified register, register (NEHGS), indented descendancy, Henry descendancy, D'Aboville descendancy, and ancestor)
• Select the size of pictures in narrative reports (books)
• Include pictures in narrative reports printed to rich text (RTF) files
• Ancestor and descendant box charts
• Print colour coding in pedigree charts, group sheets, box charts, narrative reports, wall charts, ahnentafel, descendant list, and timelines
• Individual summary prints everything you know about a person
• Calendars with birthdays and anniversaries
• Custom report designer
• Relationship chart shows exactly how two people are related
• Scrapbook of pictures for people, families, sources, and places
• Blank pedigree charts, family group sheets, research logs, correspondence logs, and cemetery records forms
• Address labels for mailings
• Dozens of list

Multimedia

• Improved multimedia handling
• Attach photographs, sound clips, video clips and documents to any person, family, place, source, or event
• Scan photos directly into RootsMagic
• Photo editor lets you adjust sharpness, brightness, contrast, and crop, rotate, and zoom images
• Include photos in your books, group sheets, and other printouts
• Copy photos from your scrapbook directly to the clipboard

Documenting Your Family History

• Customisable sentence templates
• Customisable source templates
• Improved SourceWizard
• BCG-standard source qualities
• DNA test recording
• SourceWizard automatically writes proper sources for you
• Add notes and stories/notes to any fact or person
• Easy to use source list tracks all your documentation (certificates, census, books, etc)
• Easily merge duplicate sources from the master source list
• Add a source to multiple people at once
• Easily make a copy of a source
• Enter each source only once, then reuse it elsewhere
• Add a global source to each person when importing a GEDCOM file.
• Track repositories where the sources are found
• Print your documentation (notes and sources) in your reports, summaries, and forms

Internet Features

• Integrated WebSearch
• CSS-styled web sites
• Automatically create a web site including photos, notes, sources, index, surname list, GEDCOM file, email, etc
• Six types of web sites: pedigree charts, group sheets, combo pedigree chart / group sheet, descendant narrative, ancestor narrative, alphabetical narrative
• Add your own links to your home page
• “Privatise” living persons in your web site
• Automatically check for updates to your software
• Family Reunion Planner

Tools

• RootsMagic To-Go - Run RootsMagic direct from a USB memory stick
• Mapping people and places
• Live spell checking
• Colour-coded record comparisons
• Place name standardization and geocoding
• UK Spell Checker checks the current notes, or all notes.
• Bookmark any individuals in your database
• History list lets you backtrack through last 200 people visited
• Back button moves back to previously visited people
• Global search and replace for notes, sources, names, places, etc.
• Colour code groups of individuals in your database
• Counts the number of separate trees in your database.
• Date calculator
• Pop up calendar when entering dates
• Relationship calculator shows you the relationship between any two people
• Soundex calculator (including alternate methods)
• Powerful merge capabilities, including SmartMerge and ShareMerge
• Prioritised merge list
• Mark possible duplicates as "not a match"
• Interactive problem list (edit problem person or family directly from problem list)
• Mark possible problems as "not a problem"
• Search by name, record number, dates, places, notes, and many other types of data
• Place list lets you enter place history, latitude and longitude for each place

Compatibility

• Import files from RootsMagic versions 1-3
• Direct Family Tree Maker import (prior to 2008 only)
• Direct PAF import (versions 2.x and later)
• Direct Family Origins import (versions 4 and later)
• Direct Family Origins backup import (versions 5 and later)
• Direct Legacy Import
• Full GEDCOM 5.5 support so you can exchange data with other programs
• GEDCOM import option to combine into current database or create a new database
• Full LDS support, including full TempleReady support, automatic ordinance updating, selection of qualified ordinances, and the ability to view and edit all ordinance information from a single screen. LDS support can be turned on or off.