RootsMagic is a genealogy software program designed and written by RootsMagic, Inc, a United States software design and development company founded by Bruce Buzbee in 1987. Bruce originally wrote the program Family Origins.
RootsMagic is a genealogy program that assists family historians in tracking, organizing, printing, and sharing family history.
Timeline View – put a person’s life in context with events from their own life and from the lives of family members.
CountyCheck – confirm and correct the existence of a county, state, or country on any given date from a multi-national database. It can even show you online maps of county boundaries for that date.
Research Manager – avoid “reinventing the wheel” by keeping track of research goals, sources, and results that you have collected on a person, family, or place
“On This Day” List – bring your family history to life and view family events along with famous births, deaths, and historical events for any given day of the year.
Media Tagging – tag your media with people, families, sources, or places. For example, tag an image of a census record with the people, families, and places mentioned in the record as well as the census’ source citation.
Retail Version
RootsMagic version 1.0 was released 2003-02-04
RootsMagic version 2.0 was released 2004-05-24
RootsMagic version 3.0 was released 2005-09-08
RootsMagic version 4.0 was released 2009-03-25
RootsMagic version 5.0 was released 2011-11-28
RootsMagic version 6.0 was released 2012-11-19
RootsMagic version 7.0 was released 2014-11-25
Free Version
RootsMagic Essentials was released 2009-11-18
RootsMagic Essentials was updated with the version 5 release 2011-11-28
RootsMagic Essentials was updated with the version 6 release 2012-11-19
RootsMagic Essentials was updated with the version 7 release 2014-11-25
RootsMagic 4 database design uses SQLite 3 as its database engine so the .rmgc database files it creates are readable using third party SQLite management and development tools.
RootsMagic was designed to run on the Windows platform, however some users run RootsMagic on Mac and Linux machines using Wine
