Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's Saturday Night again - time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Here is your assignment, should you decide to accept it (you ARE reading this, so I assume that you really want to play along - cue the Mission Impossible music!):1) Then and Now - Which genealogy software have you used over your genealogy …
Category: RootsMagic
Naming Conventions
Do you have a method or process you use when you save a file or even a genealogy source? If so, CONGRATULATIONS! Your method or process is obviously working for you -- or you wouldn't be using it. When I first started genealogy, I used my document number to name my files. My document numbers …
RootsMagic to WikiTree Part 2
Do you use WikiTree? Do you have an 'easy button' to help you quickly add information to a profile for an ancestor? As I'm learning more about WikiTree, I want such a button. I've figured out that I can use RootsMagic's narrative report as my 'easy button'. However, the Microsoft Word document needs some TLC …
Cause of Death
Do you remember #MyColorfulAncestry? By going viral this post by J. Paul Hawthorne prompted many genealogists to create similar spreadsheet charts. My chart was first posted to Facebook in March 2016. I later included my birth and death charts as part of my DNA Heritage and Challenge blog post. When I was recently asked abut …
RM8 Tasks
As a genealogist, have you thought about your 'philosophy'? For example, do you just search ancestors or do you also search descendants? I was aware that different genealogists have differing research philosophies or goals. However, I hadn't paid attention to differing philosophies about what is recorded in a research log. I had made an assumption …
RootsMagic 8
It's Official! RootsMagic 8 has been released. This post has been turned into a PAGE with a link at the top of this site. The page will be updated as more RM8 blogs are published. I have been fortunate to have participated in the preview of RootsMagic 8. In the process, I wrote several blog …
RM 8 Descendancy Report
I recently posted information about how I create descendancy reports in RootsMagic. That post was based on RootsMagic version 7. Since I have the ability to work with a preview version of RootsMagic version 8, I thought I would create a similar post for the newer software. As in RootsMagic 7, the easiest way to …
Software Challenge
Do you remember when Microsoft Word replaced 'menus' with the 'ribbon'. If so, you likely also remember frustration tyring to figure out how to get this 'new' version of Word to do tasks that were simple before. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to play around in the new version of Word and Excel before having …
Descendancy Report
I recently got asked how I created the blog post, Descendants of Hiram Curry. I have to admit that creating the report is relatively easy because I use genealogy software. My program of choice is RootsMagic but most other programs will also create descendancy reports. The hardest part about creating this report is identifying the …
RM8 Media
Do you use your genealogy software to attach media files? I have to admit that I'm not always consistent in the way I handle media files in RootsMagic. The RM8 Community Preview group on Facebook had the following question posted that caused me to investigate how I'm attaching media. Is there a way to see …