Comments on: RootsMagic 4 Unwrapped – Color Is Our Friend

By: Deanna Loper

Deanna Loper — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:25:06 +0000

Thanks for the color coding for finding duplicates. It is easy to remember…green= go, yellow=caution and red=stop. Great.

By: Kit

Kit — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:17:55 +0000

I love the color enhancement! I have multiple backup copies made over time, and for various reasons have become confused and updated different ones at different times (I know, bad file management, but there it is!). This will really help me sort them out and create a master file. My database isn’t huge, but 20 file copies with 2K+ individuals adds up!

Cheers, Kit.

By: Betsy Grovenburg

Betsy Grovenburg — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:36:38 +0000

I love the idea. However, I would like to make a plea for all of those of us out here that are color-blind (like my husband). Using red & green colored fields doesn’t help him at all (unless one is flourescent & one isn’t)! He will see no difference in the two fields… Please, rethink the colors. Thanks!

By: Steven McLaughlin

Steven McLaughlin — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:37:51 +0000

Your color coding of individuals event dates and places will be a great help.
I have a very large database, over 2 million, I like collecting info on celebrities and well known people in history and have thousands of duplicates. I would like to have some additional help in merging:
1. Individual ID’s – It would be a great help to have a search requirement where you limit search matches to just matching ID numbers of parents, spouses and or children.
2. Auto merges – on all the time while you manual merge.
3. Surnames – have a “similar” or “sounds alike” and or soundex,
4. Family Name Prefixes – allow matches to ignore Von, Van, D’, De, Le, L’, La, etc.
5. Browse – allow view up and down the family lines from match dialog box to help prove the family matches and match other duplicate members.
6. Reports – have a box you can check to create a printable list
7. “Start with surname” – add start and stop like surnames from Dittmer to McCormick or D to M.
8. “SourceMerge” error report – It would be nice to have a report of glitches in my data base. Every time I try to run SourceMerge It hangs up some were and the program shuts down, exits out!

Steven McLaughlin
Santa Ana, CA
s.mclaughlin@att.net

By: Jon P Czarowitz

Jon P Czarowitz — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:18:29 +0000

After relook I just noticed the best feature for newbees. It is noting whuch one is Primary. Thanks!

By: L.Riordan

L.Riordan — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:15:00 +0000

I hope that 4 will make it possible to search by loacation, bringing up every name that is recorded for that location.

By: P J Evans

P J Evans — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:37:27 +0000

Jack, I’ve had no trouble moving data from older versions to newer ones – and I started with data from FO6 and, earlier, PAF (which also imports well, although you may have to move suffixes to prefixes). If you’re *really* nervous, use Gedcom to export and import the file.

By: Bert Simerson

Bert Simerson — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:58:12 +0000

This sidebar being talked about…is it one I’ve missed in RM 3.6.x; or is the reference to the sidebar on the blog page?

By: Catherine Baker

Catherine Baker — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:56:45 +0000

In regards to using colours in RootsMagic 4 I hope you have taken into consideration all the colour blind people out there. Hopefully it will allow the user to change the colours to be user friendly for these people.

By: Jon Czarowitz

Jon Czarowitz — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:23:13 +0000

The parents on both files should be yellow to indicate further study or merging of parents also.