What's New in RootsMagic 6

These are the highlights of some of the great new features in RootsMagic 6:

Publish Online

• Publish your family information to My.RootsMagic.com
• Dynamic sites with pedigree, family and individual views for each person
• Can include notes, sources, and media for each person
• See a sample website

 

Enhanced Timeline View

• Shows a full timeline of the current person's events and those of their parents, siblings, spouses, and children
• Shows a graphical timeline of the person's events
• Edit events, names, directly from the timeline view (without having to open the edit screen)

CountyCheck Explorer

• Lets you look up counties and states (US, Canada, UK, Australia) to view information about them
• Access the FamilySearch Wiki page for counties and states
• Access an interactive state map showing historical county boundaries

 

WebTags

• Attach links to websites to any person, source, citation, place, or research log item
• Instantly jump to a web page tagged to a record
• Print a list of WebTags you have added to your database

 

Find Everywhere

• Find every record containing text you enter
• Find people, families, events, notes, sources, places, to-do items, research logs, media items, and more
• Edit any found record directly from the results screen

Enhanced searching and selecting

• Search for people by the number of spouses, children, parents, or siblings that they have
• Select people based on genetic lines (Y-STR and Mitochondrial)

 

Enhanced WebSearch

• Create a WebTag directly from your search results
• Optionally use an external browser for search results

 

Enhanced Place List

• View place detail information directly from the place list
• Edit place detail notes, media, etc. directly from the place list

You'll also enjoy these new features added in RootsMagic 5:

Research Manager

• Create unlimited research logs to document your work and aid your research
• Quickly search for any text in any research log

CountyCheck

• Automatically checks every county you enter (US, Canada, UK, Australia) to verify that it actually existed at the time of the event
• Report gives you a list of all events in counties which didn't exist at the time
• Lets you access maps and county histories for the US, Canada, UK, and Australia

 

Database Tools

• Test the integrity of the database file
• Re-index the database
• Compress deleted records from the database

"On This Day" List

• Includes all family events on a date, as well as famous births and deaths and historical events for the day

"Who Was There" List

• Shows who in your file was possibly in a given location on a given date

Enhanced People View

• Filter to show any group of people

Enhanced Multimedia

• Allows easy tagging of images with the people, families, events, places, or sources
• Enter comments on any media tag

Enhanced To-Do list

• See type, status, priority and description in a single list
• Sort by type, status, priority, or task description
• Filter by type, status, or priority

Enhanced Edit Screen

• Hover tips for notes and sources for every fact
• Easily view all to-do items for a person and their families
• Easily view all media items for a person, their events, and families

Enhanced Source Entry

• New tabbed source edit screen streamlines source entry

Enhanced Descendant List Report

• Direct descendant list shows the direct line from an ancestor to a descendant
• Henry, D'Aboville, and outline numbering
• Wordwrap option conserves space

Enhanced Place List Report

• Print all events which occurred within a certain distance of any place

Mapping

• Include markers for events of family members of the selected person

Enhanced Place List

• Displays the primary image for the highlighted place
• Displays the place details for the highlighted place

Fonts and Screens

• Select the font / size for the lists on the edit person, Explorer, and select person screens

Much, much more!