The other thing that makes me love RootsMagic is the reports and lists. Then I could demonstrate better the differences. It's to bad you weren't sitting besides me. I really hope you can tell all the great things you can view just looking at the screens. The edit portion on the right changes its layout based on every event type. I can just move my arrow keys to get to the fact and then on the right I can make the changes. I don't have to click to open up an event to edit. Now one of the other things I learned about was RootsMagic 4. On the Legacy screen I have to jump from the primary information down to the Events/Facts box. death events my eye can view them right in chronological order on the RootsMagic screen. There is so much more I can see on this one edit screen than when I look at Legacy. name without clicking on an icon to view it. You can view the marriage date and if there where more than one you could see each spouse and the marriage date in order. You are also able to see the temple ordinances without having to click on another screen to see them.
If you will look closely you can see that all the events line up in chronological order. Now a look at RootsMagic's individual edit screen. Then I can't see the family I was trying to compare info with.įirst a look at Legacy's individual edit screen. spouse in a couple of clicks and same for siblings. With just a simple click I can see so much and relate them together. The spouses arrow does the same thing, giving me the names of any additional spouses. This will give me drop down box with a quick look at his parents and siblings. The other things, I couldn't get a screen capture of, is being able to see the siblings of my great-grandfather by clicking in the upper left hand corner on the "Parents 1" with an arrow.
#ROOTSMAGIC 7 ESSENTIALS VS LEGACY 9 FULL#
In RootsMagic I could now see the full event and more children on just one screen. I was forever in Legacy having to click onto the children's information to just view their full birth or death date. Since I am a spreadsheet kind of girl I fell in love with the view of the children. Let me try to give some examples with a few graphics: (Click on the links below to open up a larger image.) I just thought Bruce had it laid his program out better. At the time I had no concept of what NFS API would even look like. I was a gut feeling that RootsMagic would run better with NFS. The other consideration was how would the program run with new FamilySearch? Just looking at the RootsMagic edit screen made me realize that multiple facts for the same events would be put in chronological order and I would just need to look in one area to get the whole picture. I found out how lite RootsMagic was and how it would run on my older laptop. One of the other reasons I had attended the RootsMagic class was because my "new" used laptop did not have enough RAM in it to run Legacy. I love spreadsheets and tables and RootsMagic had that look and feel. I was struck with how much information was on the screens yet how uncluttered and simplified they were. They were in fact ahead of Legacy 7 and had been for quit a while. He patiently answered my questions and showed me how RootsMagic did things. The very next UVPAFUG meeting I attended the RootsMagic class taught by Bruce Buzbee. I thought, in my narrow mindedness, how could there be anything better. Since I was happy with what I had in Legacy.
It made me realize that I was not being very open minded about RootsMagic. I read the comments and was struck when some RootsMagic users said they wanted to convert me over. RootsMagic users were readers of my blog and they took offense to me saying Legacy was ahead. I was a member of the RootsMagic mailing list at the time my article came out, saying Legacy was ahead of the game. Choosing a genealogy program is all up to personal preferences and choice. I still like Legacy it's a great program I don't think a person could go wrong with it. At the time I wasn't thinking about changing my genealogy program because I was so happy with Legacy. I had watched a demonstration of RootsMagic at the UVPAFUG but wasn't looking to change. I owned RootsMagic 1 but I don't think I ever used it. My knowledge of RootsMagic was very limited at that time. I actually wrote about that in a blog article and said the Legacy was ahead of the game. I thought he was taking notes so he could keep up with what Legacy had coming out.
I saw Bruce Buzbee the creator of RootsMagic attending the presentation. I was watching a demonstration on the new Legacy 7 at a BYU Conference. It would be so much easier if I could have you sit beside me as I try to describe what convinced this once devoted Legacy user to jump ship. Finally I am going to attempt to explain that. I am asked all the time why I left Legacy Family Tree for RootsMagic.
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