^ Bruce Buzbee, President, RootsMagic, Inc.

^ 'RootsMagic Blog - It's here! Presenting RootsMagic 8'.You have gone through all the company changes with us (Parsons, Intuit, Broderbund, The Learning Co., Mattel, ).As of January 2003, has discontinued our Family Origins program. Many of you have been using Family Origins since we first licensed it to Parsons Technology over 12 years ago. As many of you know, we (FormalSoft) have been working on a new genealogy program called RootsMagic which we released in February 2002. ^ Family Origins Newsletter, This will probably be the last issue of the Family Origins newsletter (I hear a lot of you saying “I thought you stopped writing it a long time ago ).^ a b c d RootsMagic Essentials, Modern Software Experience.MacOS 10.12 and above is supported by a native version as of RootsMagic 8. RootsMagic was designed to run on the Windows platform, however some users run RootsMagic on Mac and Linux machines using Wine. rmgc database files it creates are readable using third party SQLite management and development tools. RootsMagic 4 database design uses SQLite 3 as its database engine so the. RootsMagic Essentials was updated with the version 7 release.RootsMagic Essentials was updated with the version 6 release.RootsMagic Essentials was updated with the version 5 release.version sold by RootsMagic, Inc cost $29.95 for new users and $19.95 for registered users of previous versions. In 2019 there were three versions of RootsMagic V7 sold in the UK - Basic (£19.95), Standard (£34.95) and Platinum (£49.95) while the U.S.It has a function to create user website files, and maintains its own free website () for customers to publish their own genealogies.

'Drag and Drop' feature to allow copying individuals, families, and entire extended families from one database to another.

Timeline View, showing a chronological list of events in the subject's life, including major events in their parents' siblings' and children's lives.

Descendants view (two to seven generations).

Family view (allows to look at the family unit, and navigate back and forth between generations.

Standard pedigree view, with five or six generations visible.

It allows backup to a hard drive, flash drive, CD, to DropBox, or to Google Drive.

It is set up to import or export data from or to the website.It is designed as a single-file database.

The software was originally developed as Windows-only, but is now available in Mac OS X.

RootsMagic is a genealogy program that assists family historians in tracking, organizing, printing, and sharing family history.

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