If you were to use this style without a care for the looks, you’d be fine, but me, I have a lot of clean-ups to do. I would recommend that the developers read a couple of the current style guides available which detail the Register style. I chose the NEHGS Register style which I am familiar with to test-drive that report on my main family line. Running a Narrative Report is easy, there are a few choices for details. In the narrative report, anyway, they are fine. I have to select it using just the Shift-arrow keys, character-by-character.Īlthough my source list got messed up during the transition from The Master Genealogist version 8 to RootsMagic 6 some years ago and having edited it by hand in the raw GEDCOM file, the sources appear well enough. One annoyance is that I cannot select whole words using the Control-Shift-arrow keys. It is however, somewhat like what was in The Master Genealogist. The Sources listing screen in RM8 is quite different. None of it was significant, though, so, so far so good. lst file containing a bunch of “unknown info” from the GEDCOM import. Looking at the database folder on my computer, I found the. I expected some errors and omissions during the conversions, but I saw no problems reported by RootsMagic. Importing a GEDCOM 5.5.1-compliant file also went smoothly. I was able to convert a RootsMagic Essentials 7 database with no problems. I also like the font scaling feature in the Settings menu.

There is a search field in the Command Palette in the upper right part of the main screen that will lead you to what you need to find.

The interface is reminiscent of Evidentia, with no menu-bar or toolbar across the top as was in previous versions. I was able to upgrade from a registered version 6 with no problem. The initial purchase, setup, and registration went smoothly. I just purchased RootsMagic, version 8 (RM8).

Rootsmagic 7 upgrade