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RootsMagic is a genealogy software program designed and written by RootsMagic, Inc, an American software design and development company founded by Bruce Buzbee in 1987.[4] Bruce originally wrote the program Family Origins.[5][6][7]
RootsMagic is a genealogy program that assists family historians in tracking, organizing, printing, and sharing family history.[8][9]
The software was originally developed as Windows-only, but is now available in Mac OS X.
It is designed as a single-file database
It is set up to import or export data from or to the Ancestry.com website.
It allows backup to a hard drive, flash drive, or DropBox.
It has four navigation views:
Standard pedigree view, with five or six generations visible;
Family view (allows to look at the family unit, and navigate back and forth between generations;
Descendants view (two to seven generations);
People list view (display a customizable set of facts for the people in database);
Couple list view (display a list of couples in database)
"Drag and Drop" feature to allow copying individuals, families, and entire extended families from one database to another.
It has a function to create user website files, and maintains its own free website (MyRootsMagic.com) for customers to publish their own genealogies.
In 2022 there were three versions of RootsMagic 10 sold in the UK - Basic (£29.95), Standard (£39.95) and Platinum (£49.95)[10] while the U.S. version sold by RootsMagic, Inc cost $39.95 for new users and $29.95 for registered users of previous versions.
RootsMagic 4-9 database design uses SQLite 3 as its database engine so the .rmgc and .rmtree database files it creates are readable using third party SQLite management and development tools.[19]
^Family Origins Newsletter, This will probably be the last issue of the Family Origins newsletter (I hear a lot of you saying “I thought you stopped writing it a long time ago <g>). As many of you know, we (FormalSoft) have been working on a new genealogy program called RootsMagic which we released in February 2002. Many of you have been using Family Origins since we first licensed it to Parsons Technology over 12 years ago. You have gone through all the company changes with us (Parsons, Intuit, Broderbund, The Learning Co., Mattel, Genealogy.com). ...As of January 2003, Genealogy.com has discontinued our Family Origins program, ....
^Bruce Buzbee, President, RootsMagic, Inc. (Privately Held; Computer Software industry), June 1987 — Present, LinkedIn
^Bruce Buzbee, For over 18 years Bruce has been writing genealogy software, having originally written the popular Family Origins program., Logan Utah Regional Family History Center
^Family Origins, As you may know, Genealogy.com created Family Origins in collaboration with a third party developer. We regret to announce that the third party has chosen to discontinue development of the software. Because of this decision, Genealogy.com will be unable to continue support of Family Origins products as of June 30, 2003., Genealogy.com
