RootsMagic 5.0

RootsMagic is a genealogy software that makes family history easy
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RootsMagic is the award-winning genealogy software that makes family history easy.
Main Features:
- Runs under Windows 7, Vista, XP, and 2000
- Single-file database format
- Support for international character sets through Unicode integration
- Integrated backup and restore help safeguard your data
- Back up directly to CD
- Customize the tool bar to include the functions you use most, or create your own toolbar
- Database tools let you test the file integrity, rebuild indexes, and compress database to remove deleted records
- Free technical support
- Easily switch between navigation views using tabs
- Pedigree View (5 or 6 generations)
- Family View
- Descendant View (2-7 generations)
- People List View (Customizeable)
- WebSearch
- Timeline View puts a person’s life in context with events from their own life and from the lives of family members
- RootsMagic To-Go lets you run RootsMagic (program AND data) directly off your flash drive
- Easy file management
- Family members are automatically linked as you add them
- Automatically checks for duplicates as you add people
- Click in an empty parent or child slot on screen to add parents or children
- Just double click on a person's name to edit that person
- All information for a person is shown on a single streamlined 'Edit person' window
- Sidebar on main screen makes navigation easy
- Resize edit and search dialogs to see as much information as you want
- Easy to use Explorer-like help system
- Open multiple databases on screen at the same time
- Open multiple copies (and views) of the same database
- Alternate names in lists makes it easy to find a person by their other names
- Display relationships to root person on status bar
- Drag and drop people between databases
- Automatically link dragged people into the other database
- Named Groups of People lets you create groups you can use in reports or other areas
- Add unlimited people, facts/events, notes, sources, and more
- 60 predefined fact types (birth, marriage, death, occupation, religion, etc)
- Easily track multiple relationships, such as adoptions, foster parents, etc
- See a person's age at every event on their edit page
- Enter place history, latitude and longitude for each place
- Create your own user defined fact types, and add any number of roles
- Sharing events among multiple people lets you assign witnesses or other people involved in an event
- Craft your own customized sentence for each fact or role from the live-edit pane in "Edit person" window
- DNA test recording
- Add private events that you can suppress from printing or exporting
- CountyCheck analyzes places as you enter them to let you know if you enter a county or state that didn't exist on the date you entered
- RootsMagic Explorer lets you easily find and edit anyone in your family tree
- Search by name, record number, dates, places, notes, and many other types of data
- NameFind lets you easily find people by married name or nickname
- Search and replace for notes, names, places, media items, etc.
- Print to any printer connected to your computer
- Customize headers, footers, margins, fonts for any printout
- Save reports to PDF (Adobe Acrobat)
- Save reports to your word processor (RTF)
- E-mail reports directly from the print preview
- Print color coding in pedigree charts, group sheets, box charts, narrative reports, wall charts, ahnentafel, descendant list, and timelines
- Include pictures in narrative reports printed to rich text (RTF) files
- Pedigree Charts (standard and cascading)
- Family Group Sheets
- Box chart reports (both ancestor and descendant)
- Box charts - Select box style
- Narrative reports (modified register and ancestor)
- Individual summary prints everything you know about a person
- Scrapbook of pictures for people, families, sources, and places

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This is my favorite genealogy software for the last three years.

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Easy sync

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Good software but lacks many features

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