News about RootsMagic, Personal Historian, and Family Atlas software
I keep getting busy programming and forget to blog about all the great stuff coming in version 4, so I’m going to skip the rest of the little things and start sneak previewing the bigger stuff. I’ll leave the little…
OK, so here’s a feature we have gotten a lot of requests for, and in RootsMagic 4 we’re going to deliver it. If you have ever added alternate names for people in your database, you can now have those alternate…
Today’s sneak preview is going to be short and sweet (and no screen shot on top of that). But don’t worry, we still have plenty of new screen shots left to go. While website creation in RootsMagic 4 is very…
Media Album An old adage says that a picture is worth a thousand words. So here are 3000 words worth of pictures about RootsMagic 4’s new multimedia features. As in previous versions of RootsMagic, you can add pictures or other…
People? Mark Tucker’s guess sure sounded a lot more exciting. But even if the People tab can’t automatically do all your genealogy for you, it will help you quickly and easily analyze your data in ways that used to require…
Another quicky while I’m at the BYU genealogy conference. We all know how important it is to add sources for the information we enter. When adding a source in RootsMagic, we’ve always been able to enter the “quality” of the…
I am at the BYU Family History Conference all week. But here’s a quicky for you. If you’ve done much merging, you know that most of your time is spent staring at the screen comparing names, dates, and places. In…
We’ve made a few minor enhancements to working with files (aside from the new file extension that Jon mentioned in a comment to an earlier post… we’ll talk about what that means in a future post). Creating a New File…
Time for a sneak peak at a couple more of the small features coming in RootsMagic 4. I promise the big features are on their way. Just want to give the little ones their time in the sun. Live Spell…
It looks like Mark Tucker over at ThinkGenealogy has gotten in on trying to figure out the hints on the new features I didn’t talk about in my first “unveiling”. I can’t believe he figured out our biggest new feature……