RootsMagic

Features

• The software was originally developed as Windows-only, but is now available in Mac OS X.
• It is designed as a single-file database
• It is set up to import or export data from or to the Ancestry.com website.
• It allows backup to a hard drive, flash drive, CD, to DropBox, or to Google Drive.
• It has four navigation views:
• * Standard pedigree view, with five or six generations visible;
• * Family view ;
• * Timeline View, showing a chronological list of events in the subject's life, including major events in their parents' siblings' and children's lives
• "Drag and Drop" feature to allow copying individuals, families, and entire extended families from one database to another.
• It has a function to create user website files, and maintains its own free website for customers to publish their own genealogies.
• In 2019 there were three versions of RootsMagic V7 sold in the UK - Basic, Standard and Platinum while the U.S. version sold by RootsMagic, Inc cost $29.95 for new users and $19.95 for registered users of previous versions.

  History

• RootsMagic version 1.0 was released 2003-02-04
• RootsMagic version 2.0 was released 2004-05-24
• RootsMagic version 3.0 was released 2005-09-08
• RootsMagic version 4.0 was released 2009-03-25
• RootsMagic version 5.0 was released 2011-11-28
• RootsMagic version 6.0 was released 2012-11-19
• RootsMagic version 7.0 was released 2014-11-25

• RootsMagic Essentials was released 2009-11-18
• RootsMagic Essentials was updated with the version 5 release 2011-11-28
• RootsMagic Essentials was updated with the version 6 release 2012-11-19
• RootsMagic Essentials was updated with the version 7 release 2014-11-25

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