RootsMagic Essentials Changelog

What's new in RootsMagic Essentials 9.0.2

Mar 13, 2023
  • Associations:
  • Our innovative new Associations feature transforms your research by letting you easily keep track of the friends, associates, and neighbors that shaped your ancestors' lives.
  • Color Code Sets and Labels:
  • Bring your family tree to life with our enhanced color coding and color code sets, making it easier than ever to visually organize your research.
  • New Data Tools:
  • Find problems, clean-up errors, and quickly make changes, with a suite of powerful new data tools.
  • Saved Search Criteria and Groups:
  • Find what you're looking for quickly with the new "saved search criteria." Create groups of people based on saved criteria that are easily refreshed and updated with the press of a button.
  • Much More:
  • Many more enhancements including personal media albums, a new note editor, spell-check, HTML websites, and much more!

New in RootsMagic Essentials 7.0.0.0 (Nov 27, 2014)

  • MyRootsMagic:
  • MyRootsMagic accounts let you publish multiple trees online from a single login
  • Dynamic trees with pedigree, family and individual views for each person
  • Can include notes, sources, and media for each person
  • Change settings without having to re-upload your file
  • Filter online trees with named groups
  • Online trees can have optional password protection:
  • WebHints:
  • WebHints automatically show you possible records for people in your file
  • WebHints for MyHeritage (both Record Matching and Smart Matching)
  • WebHints for FamilySearch:
  • DataClean:
  • NameClean helps you clean up problems with names in your database
  • PlaceClean helps you clean up place problems in your file:
  • File Compare:
  • Compare your RootsMagic file with another RootsMagic file
  • See people in the two files side by side
  • Copy names, events, people, notes, sources, and media between files:
  • Quick Groups:
  • Instantly see any group(s) a person is in
  • Edit which groups a person is in from a single screen
  • Import Lists
  • Import lists (source list, fact type list, etc) from one file into another:
  • Backup Media:
  • Include media items in your backups (optional)
  • Restore backed up media items:
  • Drag and Drop Media into Albums:
  • Drag and drop multiple media items into any RootsMagic media album:
  • Much more.

New in RootsMagic Essentials 6.2.1.1 (Jul 11, 2013)

  • Publish Online:
  • Publish your family information to My.RootsMagic.com
  • Dynamic sites with pedigree, family and individual views for each person
  • Can include notes, sources, and media for each person
  • Enhanced Timeline View:
  • Shows a full timeline of the current person's events and those of their parents, siblings, spouses, and children
  • Edit events, names, directly from the timeline view (without having to open the edit screen)
  • CountyCheck Explorer:
  • Lets you look up counties and states (US, Canada, UK, Australia) to view information about them
  • Access the FamilySearch Wiki page for counties and states
  • Access an interactive state map showing historical county boundaries
  • WebTags:
  • Attach links to websites to any person, source, citation, place, or research log item
  • Instantly jump to a web page tagged to a record
  • Print a list of WebTags you have added to your database
  • Find Everywhere:
  • Find every record containing text you enter
  • Find people, families, events, notes, sources, places, to-do items, research logs, media items, and more
  • Edit any found record directly from the results screen
  • Enhanced place list:
  • View place detail information directly from the place list
  • Edit place detail notes, media, etc. directly from the place list
  • Enhanced searching and selecting:
  • Search for people by the number of spouses, children, parents, or siblings that they have
  • Select people based on genetic lines (Y-STR and Mitochondrial)
  • Enhanced WebSearch:
  • Create a WebTag directly from your search results
  • Optionally use an external browser for search results

New in RootsMagic Essentials 5.0.1.0 (Dec 29, 2011)

  • Research Manager:
  • Create unlimited research logs to document your work and aid your research
  • Quickly search for any text in any research log
  • Timeline View:
  • Shows a full timeline of the current person's events and those of their parents, siblings, spouses, and children
  • Shows a graphical timeline of the person's events
  • CountyCheck:
  • Automatically checks every county you enter (US, Canada, UK, Australia) to verify that it actually existed at the time of the event
  • Report gives you a list of all events in counties which didn't exist at the time
  • Lets you access maps and county histories for the US, Canada, UK, and Australia
  • Database Tools:
  • Test the integrity of the database file
  • Re-index the database
  • Compress deleted records from the database
  • "On This Day" report includes all family events on a date, as well as famous births and deaths and historical events for the day
  • Enhanced People View can be filtered to show any group of people
  • Enhanced Multimedia:
  • Allows easy tagging of images with the people, families, events, places, or sources
  • Enter comments on any media tag
  • Enhanced To-Do list:
  • See type, status, priority and description in a single list
  • Sort by type, status, priority, or task description
  • Filter by type, status, or priority
  • Enhanced Edit Screen:
  • Hover tips for notes and sources for every fact
  • Easily view all to-do items for a person and their families
  • Easily view all media items for a person, their events, and families
  • Enhanced Source Entry:
  • New tabbed source edit screen streamlines source entry
  • Enhanced Descendant List Report:
  • Direct descendant list shows the direct line from an ancestor to a descendant
  • Henry, D'Aboville, and outline numbering
  • Wordwrap option conserves space
  • Enhanced Place List report can print all events which occurred within a certain distance of any place
  • Mapping will include markers for events of family members of the selected person
  • Enhanced Place List:
  • Displays the primary image for the highlighted place
  • Displays the place details for the highlighted place
  • Select the font / size for the lists on the edit person, Explorer, and select person screens