Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1839 in Software
• Brand: S&N Genealogy Supplies
• Released on: 2005-11-25
• Platforms: Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 95

ComputerActive, Issue 184, March 2005
Roots Magic won't leave you disappointed...It's still the top of the genealogy tree.

Manufacturer's Description
RootsMagic UK Platinum Edition genealogy software takes researching your family history to a new level of ease. Gone are the days when documenting your ancestors meant shuffling through piles of paper work.

Created specifically for the UK by Bruce Buzbee, RootsMagic UK edition is powerful, yet easy-to-use, genealogy software. Its intuitive interface lets you publish your family history in a variety of ways: as charts, reports, books and even online. The Platinum Edition comes with over £90-worth of data CDs as well as a free 90-day online subscription to the Births, Marriages and Deaths Index.

Customer Reviews

Easy to use and Comprehensive
After reading several magazine reviews I thought I would give RootsMagic a try. I already have Family Tree Maker but wanted something that would offer better research and reporting features.

It’s really easy to use, and the first thing I really liked was the wall chart report. You can move boxes around and scale them, and copy and paste pictures in, letting you create a truly customized chart. This is something that I had never been able to do before. Another good thing about the charting is that you can delete a box from a chart, as it’s not directly linked to the database, unlike Family Tree Maker 2005 which I found very frustrating.

Having total control of the books, reports and websites gives it a massive advantage over other software I have tried.

I can edit my own website created by RootsMagic whenever I want.

The Shareable CD has meant that sharing my research with relatives hasn’t forced them to buy the package as they can view a read-only version of my research on CD.

Although I haven’t had RootsMagic for a long time, I have already done a lot with it and I am looking forward to digging deeper in to the package.

So in conclusion, RootsMagic is to my mind, the best software available!

Not sure what to buy?
I compared all the packages and roots magic looked the best. Having used it I found it was easy to pick up and had loads of features.

There's lots of useful research material on the CD's that are included and I managed to find some long-lost relatives with the online BMD subscription. The subscription was free and it didn't ask me to put in my credit card details which put me off other so-called free trials.

I'd recommend rootsmagic to anyone.

Powerful Stuff
Found it easy to get going and liked all the different chart options. Lots of different reports and could simply print them or edit them.

I Liked free Birth Marriage and Death data which got me started on a new line.

I feel the package grows with you as the more I use it the more features I find.