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