When rewriting RootsMagic 8, we did so with an eye on the future and emerging technologies.

2022 New Year’s Resolutions RootsMagic Updates Webinars will also be live-streamed on our YouTube channel and recordings will be available there. To help users become familiar with the new version and features, we’re offering a new series of free webinars the first being, “What’s New in RootsMagic 8”. New WebinarsĪnd speaking of webinars, we brought back our free webinars on getting the most out of your RootsMagic software. The wiki contains the online version of help for RootsMagic 8, which means we can instantly add to and update the RootsMagic help, as well as include videos, links to webinars, and other multimedia options. With the release of RootsMagic 8, we also introduced our new RootsMagic Wiki. Our official website also received an overhaul with a responsive design, updated content, and easier navigation. Everyone is welcome to view or read posts, but a free account is required in order to post or comment on messages. The new RootsMagic community is based on the Discourse platform and can be found at. This community replaced our old forums which were based on a platform that had long since become obsolete. In 2021 we also announced a new online community for users to connect and ask questions, share ideas, and discuss how to use the RootsMagic software. In addition, we added an all-new interface that supports easily switching between different types of information without losing your place, the ability to edit multiple persons at the same time, reusable citations, a completely rewritten report engine, and the ability to save reports directly to Word (.docx) or Excel (.xlsx) files.Īfter working insanely long hours for months on end, we were able to officially release RootsMagic 8 on October 1, 2021. This means that when we add new features in the future, those features will be available on both Windows and Mac. One of our main goals was to create native Windows and Mac versions with identical functionality, so we selected a development platform that allows us to create both with a single code base.

We rewrote RootsMagic to support the latest genealogical technologies available today while building a foundation for future functionality that would have been impossible with our older code. Of course, our biggest event of 2021 was the community preview and official release of RootsMagic 8.Īlthough this wasn’t the first time we have rewritten the RootsMagic code, it was by far the biggest project in our company history. With the new year, we’d like to take this opportunity to look back at all that has happened with RootsMagic in 2021, as well as look forward to our plans in 2022.

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