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RootsMagic 3

How To Save a RootsMagic 3 Wall Chart to a PDF File

The ability to print wall charts from genealogy software is a great feature. Unfortunately, most of us are unable to print on a sheet of paper bigger than 8.5″ by 14″. Having a relatively small printer at home needn’t limit our ability to share these beautiful wall charts with others. By capturing the printer output [...]

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Adding Adoptive Parents in RootsMagic 3

Adoptive relationships can add enough confusion to our genealogy research. We don’t need to be confused by how to represent them in our genealogy database software. In this video I walk you step-by-step through the process of setting up a person as adopted daughter.

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How To Clean Up “Unlinked People” in RootsMagic 3

Over time, no matter how careful you have been, you’ll end up with relatives in your genealogy database that are not connected to any other person. This is called an unlinked person in RootsMagic 3. You ought to periodically check for this situation. Fortunately, the software provides a way to identify them and then deal [...]

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Little Known Ways to Start Where You Left Off in RootsMagic 3

Genealogy research time is limited and valuable. So much so that many family historians and genealogists skip right to adding and editing data rather than exploring and setting options in their genealogy database software. This can be a mistake because there are time saving treasures buried in there. For instance, the default start up behavior [...]

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Here’s a Quick Way to List Events that Lack Dates in RootsMagic 3

Few genealogists (okay none really) have a shortage of research goals. Nonetheless, a quick way to find work that needs doing is to find events that lack date or place information. Please open your genealogy data in RootsMagic 3 and follow along with this video. In it I show you how to find those research [...]

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How to Add and Remove Photos and Other Media in RootsMagic 3

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 [...]

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