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Price: QTY: RootsMagic® ver.3.x (disk) RootsMagic™ ver. 3.x for Windows™TOTAL PRICE: Just $56.00 (incl. GST and registered Australia Post postage and handling to anywhere in Australia). 'The price tag for FTM is high, especially when there are less expensive programs, such as RootsMagic™, that have better source-citation and record-comparison tools'.- Smart Computing Magazine, United States of America (March, 2005). RootsMagic™ is a powerful, yet very simple-to-learn, family history project manager that will make compiling your pedigree a breeze.From the moment you slide in the single CD-ROM and install RootsMagic™, you will intuitively know what to do next...the buttons on the interface (or the data entry point that you look at on screen when the program opens up) make sense and are easily able to be configured just the way YOU like.Authored by Utah-based company, RootsMagic Incorporated - (formerly known as FormalSoft Inc) - RootsMagic™ (written by Bruce Buzbee) is no lightweight when it comes to functionality.The latest features of RootsMagic™ ver.3.x are described at this site, http://www.rootsmagic.com/features.htm.Here is what respected US genealogy online columnist, Dick Eastman, has written about RootsMagic™: "When opening RootsMagic™ for the first time, I noticed the simplicity of the data entry screens. Everything seem obvious and intuitive to this experienced genealogist. I think it will be equally obvious to the genealogy newcomer. I doubt if many people will dive for the user’s manual or help files in this program!"Data is displayed on the screen in any of three formats: Main Pedigree View, Main Family View and Main Descendants View. Each view is obvious. You can see examples of these and several other screens at http://www.rootsmagic.com/overview.htm."Entering new data about a person is about as simple in RootsMagic™ as I have ever seen in any genealogy program. Enter a field, press TAB to get to the next field, and then enter its data. You do this for given name(s) and surname as well as places of birth, death, and burial. Once the basic information is entered, a second window pops up, offering a chance to enter a lot more (optional) information, including: an unlimited list of source facts (marriage, education, military record, honours earned), source citations where the information was found, and much more. You can see a screenshot of this details screen at http://www.rootsmagic.com/editview.htm."Unlike programs that are simpler 'under the hood', RootsMagic™ has a true sources database. You can enter a source one time and then refer to it time and again as you add entries for different people. For instance, if you find a 'family Bible' that contains entries about 50 different people, you can enter the information about 'the Bible' one time and then make 50 references to 'the Bible', once in the record of each individual. The more simplistic genealogy programs would make you enter the same source citations 50 times. Likewise, you can later update the information about the one source, and your updates instantly appear in the records of 50 different people. Simpler programs would require you to make 50 updates."RootsMagic™ allows you to open multiple genealogy databases at the same time and to even drag and drop people from one database to another. This feature is useful when you receive a GEDCOM™ file from a distant cousin: you can open your own database in one window and your cousin’s database in another. As you carefully examine your cousin’s claims, you can make a decision whether or not to accept your cousin’s information about each individual. If you agree with your cousin’s claims, you can 'drag and drop' that person into your own database without the need to manually re-type all the information. Likewise, if you do not trust your cousin’s claims about the individual in question you may ignore the data about the individual in question."RootsMagic™ has 60 predefined fact types, including birth, marriage, death, occupation, religion, and more. However, if you need still more, you can always create your own user-defined fact types. For instance, anyone with French-Canadian ancestry will probably want to create a fact type of filles du roi, or 'King's Daughters'. Filles du roi is not one of the 60 pre-defined ones included within RootsMagic™, but the user can easily add it."Note: Before you ask, let me explain that the filles du roi were young women of marriageable age and capable of bearing children who arrived in Quebec or Montreal between 1663 and 1673. The term translates as 'daughters of the King'. In this case, the young ladies’ transportation and settlement expenses, as well as the dowry for some of them, were paid by the French royal treasury instead of by the young lady’s parents as was customary in those days. Therefore, they were popularly referred to as 'the King’s daughters'."I continued to experiment with RootsMagic™ for a couple of hours and found that it was a pleasure to use. To be blunt, I didn’t find anything in the program that I haven’t found in other programs. However, the program interface was one of the easiest of any genealogy program I have used in the past. Features that are sometimes hidden or obscure in other programs seemed to be easy to find in RootsMagic™."RootsMagic™ also has all the standard reports one expects in modern genealogy programs, including: Pedigree Charts (standard and cascading) Family Group Sheets Narrative reports (modified register, indented descendancy, Henry descendancy, D'Aboville descendancy, and ancestor) Individual summary prints everything you know about a person Calendars with birthdays and anniversaries Custom report designer Relationship chart shows exactly how two people are related Scrapbook of pictures for people, families, sources, and places Blank pedigree charts, family group sheets, research logs, correspondence logs, and cemetery records forms Address labels for mailings Dozens of lists A full multimedia scrapbook capability that allows for the attachment of photographs, sound clips, video clips, and documents to any person, family, place, source, or event The user can scan photos directly into RootsMagic™ A photo editor that lets you adjust sharpness, brightness, and contrast, as well as crop, rotate, and zoom images The ability to include photos in your books, group sheets, and other printouts Automatically create a website including photos, notes, sources, index, surname list, GEDCOM™ file, email, etc Six types of websites: pedigree charts, group sheets, combo pedigree chart/group sheet, descendant narrative, ancestor narrative, alphabetical narrative Add your own links to your home page 'Privatise' living persons in your website Automatically check for updates to your software Family Reunion Planner Correspondence Log lets you keep track of all your incoming and outgoing correspondence Bookmark any individuals in your database Spellchecker checks the current notes, or all notes. Global search and replace for notes, sources, names, places, etc. Counts the number of separate trees in your database. 'To do' list lets you keep track of research you still need to do for any person or family Date calculator Relationship calculator shows you the relationship between any two people Soundex calculator (including alternate methods) Powerful merge capabilities, including SmartMerge and ShareMerge Search by name, record number, dates, places, notes, and many other types of data "All in all, RootsMagic™ is a winner. It is a very powerful genealogy program with all the features found in most competitive programs, plus it is very easy to use and has a modest price. I’d say that Bruce Buzbee has a winner with RootsMagic™. I suspect that I will be recommending it to many people." [NB: The above article is from Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright 2004 by Richard W. Eastman. It is re-published here with the permission of the author. Information about the newsletter is available at http://www.eogn.com.] SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?Garrison Communications sells the latest, full version of RootsMagic™ in a bundle that includes Bruce Buzbee's own, comprehensive guidebook to his software - the third edition of Getting the Most Out of RootsMagic™, together with the program itself. This large-print, 278-page companion booklet (pictured above) will help make the transition to this program a cinch. In summary, this program is designed to make the most of working with the GEDCOM™ file format.Grab your copy of RootsMagic™ today and put your research into high gear!
Price:
RootsMagic™ ver. 3.x for Windows™TOTAL PRICE: Just $56.00 (incl. GST and registered Australia Post postage and handling to anywhere in Australia).
'The price tag for FTM is high, especially when there are less expensive programs, such as RootsMagic™, that have better source-citation and record-comparison tools'.- Smart Computing Magazine, United States of America (March, 2005).
RootsMagic™ is a powerful, yet very simple-to-learn, family history project manager that will make compiling your pedigree a breeze.From the moment you slide in the single CD-ROM and install RootsMagic™, you will intuitively know what to do next...the buttons on the interface (or the data entry point that you look at on screen when the program opens up) make sense and are easily able to be configured just the way YOU like.Authored by Utah-based company, RootsMagic Incorporated - (formerly known as FormalSoft Inc) - RootsMagic™ (written by Bruce Buzbee) is no lightweight when it comes to functionality.The latest features of RootsMagic™ ver.3.x are described at this site, http://www.rootsmagic.com/features.htm.Here is what respected US genealogy online columnist, Dick Eastman, has written about RootsMagic™:
"When opening RootsMagic™ for the first time, I noticed the simplicity of the data entry screens. Everything seem obvious and intuitive to this experienced genealogist. I think it will be equally obvious to the genealogy newcomer. I doubt if many people will dive for the user’s manual or help files in this program!"Data is displayed on the screen in any of three formats: Main Pedigree View, Main Family View and Main Descendants View. Each view is obvious. You can see examples of these and several other screens at http://www.rootsmagic.com/overview.htm."Entering new data about a person is about as simple in RootsMagic™ as I have ever seen in any genealogy program. Enter a field, press TAB to get to the next field, and then enter its data. You do this for given name(s) and surname as well as places of birth, death, and burial. Once the basic information is entered, a second window pops up, offering a chance to enter a lot more (optional) information, including: an unlimited list of source facts (marriage, education, military record, honours earned), source citations where the information was found, and much more. You can see a screenshot of this details screen at http://www.rootsmagic.com/editview.htm."Unlike programs that are simpler 'under the hood', RootsMagic™ has a true sources database. You can enter a source one time and then refer to it time and again as you add entries for different people. For instance, if you find a 'family Bible' that contains entries about 50 different people, you can enter the information about 'the Bible' one time and then make 50 references to 'the Bible', once in the record of each individual. The more simplistic genealogy programs would make you enter the same source citations 50 times. Likewise, you can later update the information about the one source, and your updates instantly appear in the records of 50 different people. Simpler programs would require you to make 50 updates."RootsMagic™ allows you to open multiple genealogy databases at the same time and to even drag and drop people from one database to another. This feature is useful when you receive a GEDCOM™ file from a distant cousin: you can open your own database in one window and your cousin’s database in another. As you carefully examine your cousin’s claims, you can make a decision whether or not to accept your cousin’s information about each individual. If you agree with your cousin’s claims, you can 'drag and drop' that person into your own database without the need to manually re-type all the information. Likewise, if you do not trust your cousin’s claims about the individual in question you may ignore the data about the individual in question."RootsMagic™ has 60 predefined fact types, including birth, marriage, death, occupation, religion, and more. However, if you need still more, you can always create your own user-defined fact types. For instance, anyone with French-Canadian ancestry will probably want to create a fact type of filles du roi, or 'King's Daughters'. Filles du roi is not one of the 60 pre-defined ones included within RootsMagic™, but the user can easily add it."Note: Before you ask, let me explain that the filles du roi were young women of marriageable age and capable of bearing children who arrived in Quebec or Montreal between 1663 and 1673. The term translates as 'daughters of the King'. In this case, the young ladies’ transportation and settlement expenses, as well as the dowry for some of them, were paid by the French royal treasury instead of by the young lady’s parents as was customary in those days. Therefore, they were popularly referred to as 'the King’s daughters'."I continued to experiment with RootsMagic™ for a couple of hours and found that it was a pleasure to use. To be blunt, I didn’t find anything in the program that I haven’t found in other programs. However, the program interface was one of the easiest of any genealogy program I have used in the past. Features that are sometimes hidden or obscure in other programs seemed to be easy to find in RootsMagic™."RootsMagic™ also has all the standard reports one expects in modern genealogy programs, including: Pedigree Charts (standard and cascading) Family Group Sheets Narrative reports (modified register, indented descendancy, Henry descendancy, D'Aboville descendancy, and ancestor) Individual summary prints everything you know about a person Calendars with birthdays and anniversaries Custom report designer Relationship chart shows exactly how two people are related Scrapbook of pictures for people, families, sources, and places Blank pedigree charts, family group sheets, research logs, correspondence logs, and cemetery records forms Address labels for mailings Dozens of lists A full multimedia scrapbook capability that allows for the attachment of photographs, sound clips, video clips, and documents to any person, family, place, source, or event The user can scan photos directly into RootsMagic™ A photo editor that lets you adjust sharpness, brightness, and contrast, as well as crop, rotate, and zoom images The ability to include photos in your books, group sheets, and other printouts Automatically create a website including photos, notes, sources, index, surname list, GEDCOM™ file, email, etc Six types of websites: pedigree charts, group sheets, combo pedigree chart/group sheet, descendant narrative, ancestor narrative, alphabetical narrative Add your own links to your home page 'Privatise' living persons in your website Automatically check for updates to your software Family Reunion Planner Correspondence Log lets you keep track of all your incoming and outgoing correspondence Bookmark any individuals in your database Spellchecker checks the current notes, or all notes. Global search and replace for notes, sources, names, places, etc. Counts the number of separate trees in your database. 'To do' list lets you keep track of research you still need to do for any person or family Date calculator Relationship calculator shows you the relationship between any two people Soundex calculator (including alternate methods) Powerful merge capabilities, including SmartMerge and ShareMerge Search by name, record number, dates, places, notes, and many other types of data "All in all, RootsMagic™ is a winner. It is a very powerful genealogy program with all the features found in most competitive programs, plus it is very easy to use and has a modest price. I’d say that Bruce Buzbee has a winner with RootsMagic™. I suspect that I will be recommending it to many people."
"When opening RootsMagic™ for the first time, I noticed the simplicity of the data entry screens. Everything seem obvious and intuitive to this experienced genealogist. I think it will be equally obvious to the genealogy newcomer. I doubt if many people will dive for the user’s manual or help files in this program!"Data is displayed on the screen in any of three formats: Main Pedigree View, Main Family View and Main Descendants View. Each view is obvious. You can see examples of these and several other screens at http://www.rootsmagic.com/overview.htm."Entering new data about a person is about as simple in RootsMagic™ as I have ever seen in any genealogy program. Enter a field, press TAB to get to the next field, and then enter its data. You do this for given name(s) and surname as well as places of birth, death, and burial. Once the basic information is entered, a second window pops up, offering a chance to enter a lot more (optional) information, including: an unlimited list of source facts (marriage, education, military record, honours earned), source citations where the information was found, and much more. You can see a screenshot of this details screen at http://www.rootsmagic.com/editview.htm."Unlike programs that are simpler 'under the hood', RootsMagic™ has a true sources database. You can enter a source one time and then refer to it time and again as you add entries for different people. For instance, if you find a 'family Bible' that contains entries about 50 different people, you can enter the information about 'the Bible' one time and then make 50 references to 'the Bible', once in the record of each individual. The more simplistic genealogy programs would make you enter the same source citations 50 times. Likewise, you can later update the information about the one source, and your updates instantly appear in the records of 50 different people. Simpler programs would require you to make 50 updates."RootsMagic™ allows you to open multiple genealogy databases at the same time and to even drag and drop people from one database to another. This feature is useful when you receive a GEDCOM™ file from a distant cousin: you can open your own database in one window and your cousin’s database in another. As you carefully examine your cousin’s claims, you can make a decision whether or not to accept your cousin’s information about each individual. If you agree with your cousin’s claims, you can 'drag and drop' that person into your own database without the need to manually re-type all the information. Likewise, if you do not trust your cousin’s claims about the individual in question you may ignore the data about the individual in question."RootsMagic™ has 60 predefined fact types, including birth, marriage, death, occupation, religion, and more. However, if you need still more, you can always create your own user-defined fact types. For instance, anyone with French-Canadian ancestry will probably want to create a fact type of filles du roi, or 'King's Daughters'. Filles du roi is not one of the 60 pre-defined ones included within RootsMagic™, but the user can easily add it."Note: Before you ask, let me explain that the filles du roi were young women of marriageable age and capable of bearing children who arrived in Quebec or Montreal between 1663 and 1673. The term translates as 'daughters of the King'. In this case, the young ladies’ transportation and settlement expenses, as well as the dowry for some of them, were paid by the French royal treasury instead of by the young lady’s parents as was customary in those days. Therefore, they were popularly referred to as 'the King’s daughters'."I continued to experiment with RootsMagic™ for a couple of hours and found that it was a pleasure to use. To be blunt, I didn’t find anything in the program that I haven’t found in other programs. However, the program interface was one of the easiest of any genealogy program I have used in the past. Features that are sometimes hidden or obscure in other programs seemed to be easy to find in RootsMagic™."RootsMagic™ also has all the standard reports one expects in modern genealogy programs, including:
"All in all, RootsMagic™ is a winner. It is a very powerful genealogy program with all the features found in most competitive programs, plus it is very easy to use and has a modest price. I’d say that Bruce Buzbee has a winner with RootsMagic™. I suspect that I will be recommending it to many people."
[NB: The above article is from Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright 2004 by Richard W. Eastman. It is re-published here with the permission of the author. Information about the newsletter is available at http://www.eogn.com.]
SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?Garrison Communications sells the latest, full version of RootsMagic™ in a bundle that includes Bruce Buzbee's own, comprehensive guidebook to his software - the third edition of Getting the Most Out of RootsMagic™, together with the program itself. This large-print, 278-page companion booklet (pictured above) will help make the transition to this program a cinch. In summary, this program is designed to make the most of working with the GEDCOM™ file format.Grab your copy of RootsMagic™ today and put your research into high gear!
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