Comments on: RootsMagic 4 Unveiled (Part II)

By: James Carrigan

James Carrigan — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:25:37 +0000

I would like to love can work with merge the Microsoft Office. Also input the line of Obituaries index

By: P J Evans

P J Evans — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:39:26 +0000

Oh good, now I won’t have to use year-only, with the real dates in teh notes, for the many Quakers I have. (Of course, there are some that give civil-calendar dates, too.)

(The best one I have: the will dated 22nd day, first month called March, 1727, and proved 2 March 1727. Not an error: the testator was using 1 March as New Year’s.)

By: L Jakubczak

L Jakubczak — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:42:30 +0000

I really appreciate changes made in the relationship catagory. In this day and age, there are just as many “blended” families. With “adopted” sometimes one parent adopts a child who is natural to the other parent. My question is, how will it show up in reports?

By: BeckyP

BeckyP — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:18:27 +0000

Question about new place format.

For many years, I’ve been entering data including “Place Details” (Church, Hospital, Cemetery, School, etc.)

For US locations, it often looks like:

Place Detail, City, Township, County, State, USA

Will there be a utility or ‘search replace’ option to get my place detail (Church, Cemetery, etc.) into the new field?

Thanks,

Becky

PS Agree with other poster. Look forward to a “tree structure”. Something that will handle US AND European place names.

PS After months of teasing, and info on this blog, looking forward to the vs. 4 release! Everything sounds great. Best wishes!

By: Judith

Judith — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:25:36 +0000

Wow Bruce! All of this and you still have time for cruising !! It sounds great.
I do agree with both Elynn (#17) and JML (#20) that a couple more possibilities for the ‘proof button’ would be neat. Both ‘not researched’ and ‘not proven’ would be very helpful.
I also would love to ask “When?” but shall refrain.

By: JML

JML — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:16:02 +0000

It would be very helpful to have a fourth explicit category in the proof sequence – ‘not proven’

By: John James

John James — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:17:31 +0000

I echo PAB’s comments on both census dates and online mapping.

It would be simple to have a pick sheet to choose from for the census date when entering a census fact i.e (1930 US census) – (1841 UK census) and RM knows the date the census was taken. It could even be user definable where dates could be added and updated.

By: PAB

PAB — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:14:09 +0000

Excellent news on the dates and places fields. How about a teeny other thing with dates: when the census year is entered why not put in the exact day automatically after all the US and UK ones are static.

I concur with previous comments about a more structured approach to places, but how about a change in the Online Map option in places to jump to a lat long coordinate if the place name itself is not found in the lookup.

Keep us wishing!

By: Elynn

Elynn — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:25:49 +0000

I hope that there is some kind of conversion for those of us who have put the place details in with the place name. Sure would be a pain to try to find all of them and manually change them.

Love the proof stuff – but how about one more ‘not researched’ or something similar? Currently when I add a fact with an unresearched source, I tag it as ‘unreliable’.

By: MVS

MVS — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:58:35 +0000

Very good news on the UK BMD dating options (Q1, Q2 etc). This will allow a more logical way of recording the information and improve the accuracy of the date recorded for a birth, marriage or death event on the actual event record.