chineselkp.blogg.se - Family tree maker vs rootsmagic 7

Citing multiple pages of a source book – I don’t know why we’ve all suffered for so long with the way FTM approached this, but RootsMagic uses a “Master Source” model that includes the 3 types of source citations you’d use (if you’re making an EE citation), but it allows you to enter a page number each time (if you’re using a book) without additional clicks.

Two clicks and quick search each time…we were amazed at how easy it was to take a page from a book and source it to everyone listed on that page.

Citing sources to multiple ancestors – Again, MUCH simpler and easier.

We were amazed at how quickly and easily we were able to use the Free Form template to enter the Source List Entry, Full Reference Note, and Short Note entries for a source.

Creating new sources – The kludgy, and totally inaccurate (as it relates to the Elizabeth Shown Mills Evidence Explained format), source/fact process in Family Tree maker is completely blown away by RootsMagic.Adding new family members – Very simple and intuitive, with fewer clicks and easier to run through a page of newly discovered ancestors in an old book.RootsMagic is better than Family Tree Maker at: The test was to get the tree into RM, get it synced to, and after confirming that the data migrated properly, use RootsMagic to attach new sources and facts to the tree, to see how it works vs. To add a little more detail, to test we migrated a Family Tree Maker 3.1 tree that was synced to (before Software MacKiev missed it’s April 1 shipping deadline, and broke FamilySync) that had both custom data elements and extensive home-grown citations attached to facts. Additionally, it does some things much better than FTM, and the switch was painless.

The bottom line is this: RootsMagic does everything that Family Tree Maker used to do, and does now, moving over was not painful, and it resolved our issues immediately. Quick take on moving to RootsMagic 7.5: This migration was easy, and just over 24 hours after we put a test tree into see how the product looks/works, we’re hooked, and Family Tree Maker is soon dead to us. We’ll follow up with more detail, and possibly a more complete opinion shortly, but we’re pretty confident in the what we’ve found in the time we’ve spent with this product. Second, this is a quick review with only about 24 hours with the product. Everything we discuss is our opinion alone, and we talk about it because we use it. First, as always, we receive no financial benefit or consideration for any product or service we review/recommend here.