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Having photos in your RootsMagic 3 genealogy database does more than make them available for reports and charts. It also adds flavor and context when looking at the pedigree and family views. As you can see from the image below, seeing photos brings a pedigree view and one’s family history to life.

In this first screencast in a series, I walk you through the different ways of adding and removing photos in RootsMagic 3 as well as giving some background information and pointers. So grab some family history photos and scan them if they aren’t already, launch RootsMagic, navigate to the appropriate person, then play this video and follow along.

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The PC genealogy database software, RootsMagic can include preparer information on almost all the reports, charts, and lists it can generate. This information can be set once then included by selecting an option check box. In many cases the inclusion of preparer information is a default, so it will just work after storing the preparer information.

Please open your copy of RootsMagic and follow along with this video as I take you step-by-step through the process of adding the information then show you which reports, charts, and lists support its inclusion.

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Family historians often need to import genealogy data. RootsMagic 3 makes this a trivial task, but there are some options of which you may want to take advantage. In this video I take you step-by-step through the process of importing GEDCOM formatted family history data into RootsMagic.

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