News about RootsMagic, Personal Historian, and Family Atlas software
NOTE: This is Part 5 in our ongoing series documenting the history of our company. If you’re just joining us, be sure to read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4. I made some friends at Parsons Technology during…
NOTE: This is Part 4 in our ongoing series documenting the history of our company. If you’re just joining us, be sure to read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. As our customer base for QubeCalc slowly grew, we began…
NOTE: This is Part 3 in our ongoing series documenting the history of our company. If you’re just joining us, be sure to read Part 1 and Part 2. As word of mouth spread about QubeCalc and InstaCalc, sales slowly picked up…
NOTE: This is Part 2 in our ongoing series documenting the history of our company. If you’re just joining us, be sure to read Part 1. Now that I had both a company and a product, all I needed to…
It’s our 30th birthday, but you’re getting the presents! Whether you’ve been a part of the RootsMagic family for 30 years or 30 minutes, we want to hear your story! Tell us about the time you “first felt the magic”-…
Part 1: The FormalWare Co. Happy 30th birthday to RootsMagic! Well, not RootsMagic the program, but RootsMagic the company. This month (October 14th to be exact), marks the 30th birthday of the company we now know as “RootsMagic”. Like a…
The FamilySearch website will be undergoing a technical upgrade Monday, June 27th starting at 12 midnight MDT (6am UTC), and may be down for up to 24 hours as they test the system. The entire FamilySearch system will be down,…
One of the biggest new features in RootsMagic 7 is our amazing WebHints™. RootsMagic automatically searches your favorite genealogy record sites including FamilySearch and MyHeritage for possible matches to your data. As matches are found, a light bulb appears next…
Direct Family Tree Maker Import is Here! Since Ancestry’s announcement that they were parting ways with their Family Tree Maker software, thousands of FTM users have found a new home in RootsMagic. One of the first questions they have is,…
Recently, the genealogy world was rocked with the news that Ancestry would be parting with their “Family Tree Maker” (FTM) genealogy software. Thousands of FTM users have since made the switch to RootsMagic. But the question everyone has been asking…