Family Tree Template: RootsMagic

Sunday, September 16, 2012

RootsMagic

RootsMagic is a genealogy software program designed and written by RootsMagic, Inc, a USA software design and development company founded by Bruce Buzbee in 1987.[3] Bruce originally wrote the program Family OriginsTimeline View – put a person’s life in context with events from their own life and from the lives of family members.

CountyCheck – confirm and correct the existence of a county, state, or country on any given date from a multi-national database. It can even show you online maps of county boundaries for that date.

Research Manager – avoid “reinventing the wheel” by keeping track of research goals, sources, and results that you have collected on a person, family, or place

“On This Day” List – bring your family history to life and view family events along with famous births, deaths, and historical events for any given day of the year.

Media Tagging – tag your media with people, families, sources, or places. For example, tag an image of a census record with the people, families, and places mentioned in the record as well as the census’ source citation.

Over 80 other enhancements and features