RootsMagic 4 Unwrapped – And the 5th tab is…
WebSearch.
And why is it that every time a tab is disclosed another blurred one (2) appears?
RootsMagic 4 makes it easier than ever to search online for information about your family. Just switch to the WebSearch tab and RootsMagic will do an online search for the currently selected person. And if you want to find someone else just click their name in the side list and RootsMagic will automatically search for them on the selected site.
WebSearch
Of course nobody wants to search just one site, so RootsMagic lets you select which site you want it to use. Click the little drop arrow to the right of the search button and choose the site you want to search. If you want to add additional sites that we don’t include (or if you want to hide some of the built-in sites), choose “Manage Search Providers…”.
WebSearch Menu
Here you can uncheck any sites you are boycotting or just don’t want appearing in the list. Or you can select the “Custom Search Providers” tab to add new search engines. I won’t go into gory details about adding a new search engine here, but it really is quite easy to do, even for a non-programmer.
WebSearch Providers
Well, that’s one more new feature, with at least 10 more to go.
Oh, and I’m pretty sure that last new blurred tab above is the last one (for now). I think we figured out what keeps causing them to appear and got it taken care of <g>.
Excellent — another very useful feature that I look very forward to using!
One question I had was how much information from one’s database can automatically be sent to a particular website.
For example, Ancestry.com in its new ancestry search feature will accept a wide variety of data:
- Name
– First & Middle
– Last
- Birth
– Date
– Location
- Lived In (Residence)
– Location (1)
– Location (2)
– Location ( . . . )
- Death
– Date
– Location
- Family Members
– Father
– Mother
– Spouse
– Children
– Siblings
- Migration
– Arrival
– Date
– Location
– Departure
– Date
– Location
– Origin
– Location
– Destination
– Location
- Military Service
– Date
– Location
- Marriage
– Marriage Info
– Date
– Location
– Divorce Info
– Date
– Location
- More
– Keyword
– Gender
– Race/Nationality
– Other Info
– Date
– Location
– Publication Info
– Date
– Location
Will RM 4.0 be able to pass all the relevant data from one’s database to populate these fields or to allow some form of user-customization as to what will be sent?
This sort of feature would save an immense amount of time in terms of data entry, particularly when searching for a large number of people sequentially.
Eager to hear what’s next!