Coming soon: You could win an iPad from RootsMagic!
It’s been a tremendous last few months here at RootsMagic. We’ve been busy with the new releases of Personal Historian 2 and RootsMagic 5 and now that we have a chance to breathe, we feel like celebrating with you, our loyal users! And what better way to celebrate than with a treasure hunt where you could win one of many prizes including an iPad 2?
Excited yet? Well, you won’t have to wait too much longer. Watch this blog early next week for all the details!
New Year’s Resolutions for 2012
Welcome to 2012! With 2011 in the rear-view mirror, let’s look ahead to 2012 and some of our goals and resolutions for the coming year.
New Platforms
The technology world is changing, and we are working hard to keep up with those changes. For the past several years, we’ve been laying the groundwork to bring RootsMagic (and our other products) to new platforms and even new devices. Like you, we know how important it is to have your information where and when you want it. So we’ve been busy in our secret underground laboratories working on some very exciting new tools. Be sure to watch this blog and our newsletter for official future announcements.
New Products
In addition to new platforms and new devices, our secret underground laboratories are hard at work developing new ideas and products to support our mission to create “software to unite families”. Again, the best way to learn about these new products and when they are released is by watching this blog and our newsletter for official announcements.
New Webinars
Thousands of you have told us how much you love our free webinars, and we’re thrilled to continue bringing them to you. Watch for new webinars on the great new features in RootsMagic 5 and Personal Historian 2. A number of you have told us you would like to see some shorter webinars on just a single feature, so we will be offering some mini-webinars to do just that. And don’t forget, whether you attend live or watch an archived recording, our webinars are always free. They’re our gift to you, our users, to help you get the most out of our software.
New Genealogists
We are pleased to announce that we will be the sponsor of the Genealogy Youth Kamp at this years NGS Conference in Cincinnati. Youth Kamp is designed to assist children between the ages of 8 and 16 with gaining an appreciation of and connection to their ancestry. To aid in this, parents, grandparents, or other adults are encouraged to attend and participate in Youth Kamp along with the children. There will be a special program for the adults who attend.
New Updates
And last but certainly not least, watch for regular updates to all of your software with improvements, fixes, and new features. Updates can be found by clicking Help > Check for Updates on the main menu of most of our software.
Thank You!
Of course, these resolutions are not a comprehensive list of our plans and goals for 2012. There are many other projects which are in development which we’ll talk about when the time is right. Keep watching this blog or our e-mail newsletter for announcements.
In the meantime, thank you again for your support. We try very hard to listen to your problems, questions, and suggestions. If there is something that you’d like to see us do, please contact us and let us know. Happy New Year and may you have a prosperous 2012 (both genealogically and otherwise)!
2011 Year in Review
Is it December 31 already? As has become an annual tradition here at RootsMagic, we’d like to take a few of the last remaining minutes of the year 2011 to review some of our accomplishments from the last 12 months with you, our users. If you’re not one to dwell on the past, check back Monday as we present our 2012 New Years’ Resolutions with a peek at our plans for the coming year. But until then, crowd on into the time machine (don’t worry, there’s plenty of room) as we journey back to January 2011.
Free Online Classes (Webinars)
Beginning in January 2011, we pioneered the use of “webinars“, or free online classes, to help our users get the most out of our software. Over the last 12 months, we’ve offered nearly 30 classes spanning over 30 hours of instruction to answer your questions and to teach you all the ins-and-outs of our software. And the response has been phenomenal! Our webinars have been viewed and downloaded hundreds of thousands of times from users in nearly every country on the globe.
And best of all? All of our webinars are archived and still available, free of charge. If you haven’t already taken advantage of this resource, don’t wait, pick a webinar on a topic that you’ve been curious about and watch it today! No other genealogy software comes close to providing the level of support and training that we do.
Sponsorships
This year brought the usual conference travel, but this time we wanted to give back a little to the genealogy community that has given us so much.
At the Southern California Jamboree in June we brought the experience of the Jamboree directly to you. We sponsored free live streaming of some of the best known speakers in the industry right into your home, including Lisa Louise Cooke, Curt Witcher, David Lambert, Kory Meyerink, and Kerry Bartels.
And at the Federation of Genealogical Societies conference in Springfield, Illinois we sponsored the RootsMagic Cyber Cafe, the place to hang out, go online, charge a device, or print those syllabus pages you needed.
Personal Historian 2 and Personal Historian Essentials
This year saw not one, not two, but 3 new releases. September brought the long-awaited release of Personal Historian 2, the latest version of our ground-breaking computer software which helps you write the story of your life and of other individuals. Personal Historian 2 built upon its predecessor and added easier filtering and searching, an even better word processor, improved book publishing, and much more. We also released a free “Essentials” version of the software to help people start recording their life stories.
RootsMagic 5
We released regular free updates to our RootsMagic 4 software throughout the year. And in November we released RootsMagic 5, the latest version of our award winning genealogy software. RootsMagic 5 added a Timeline View, CountyCheck, Research Manager, “On This Day” List, Media Tagging, and much more. In the short time since it’s release, RootsMagic 5 has already proven itself to be our best, most popular version of RootsMagic yet. And the best is yet to come!
Awards
And for the 3rd straight year, we received the GeneAwards Best Genealogy Product of the Year. “Several competing products saw major upgrades this year, but there is no better all-round desktop genealogy application“.
Thank You!
We say this every year, and we know this always sounds clichéd, but none of this would have been possible without you and your support. 2011 has been a huge year for us and, rest assured, we’re working hard to make 2012 even better!
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