There were two releases of this leading PC (Windows) genealogy research software this week. While they were primarily bug-fix updates, there were three changes that I demonstrate in they accompanying video:
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Faster Census Entry with RootsMagic 4 Shared Events
Entering census events is more time consuming than for other events. The same information is needed for each person enumerated in a household. RootsMagic 4 speeds up the process of adding the same source and event for multiple people with a feature called shared events.
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Store Your RootsMagic Backups Off Site with DropBox
You can get peace of mind by configuring RootsMagic to automatically store backups of your data both on your computer and off site (on the secure servers at DropBox). All it takes is a free (up to 2 GB) account and this video to show you how to configure RootsMagic. Click here to get your free DropBox account (and earn me a small increase in space for the referral—thanks!). There’s a nice video on the DropBox page that will walk you through the installation and usage.
By the way, don’t try to store and use your database from your DropBox folder. It won’t work properly and may cause you to lose data. Just stick with backing up there.
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RootsMagic 4.0.9.7 Walkthrough
This update of PC genealogy software RootsMagic was primarily a bug fix release. It did contain three changes that may help you to be aware of:
- Place details displaying on the edit person dialog
- An option enabling you to paste plain text into notes
- People and place indexes at the end of the individual list report
See each change in this video:
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Cleaning Up Living Flags in RootsMagic 4
You may be shocked to discover that you have the living dead in your RootsMagic database. [I’m just now realizing this should be a halloween post] By this I mean, records for people who have passed, but are marked “living” (the living flag is checked). Cleaning this condition up is made easier by RootsMagic making it simple to select people who are marked “living” and have birth dates prior to 120 years before today.
Cleaning this up is one of those annual maintenance tasks you can do to keep your data clean. I’ll show you, click-by-click, how to do it in this video.
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