RootsMagic is a genealogy software

Genealogy software

Genealogy software is computer software used to record, organize, and publish genealogical data. At a minimum, genealogy software collects the date and place of an individual's birth, marriage, and death, and stores the relationships of individuals to their parents, spouses, and children...

 program designed and written by RootsMagic, Inc, a USA software design and development company founded by Bruce Buzbee in 1987. Bruce originally wrote the program Family Origins.

Features

RootsMagic is a genealogy program that assists family historians in tracking, organizing, printing, and sharing family history

Family history

Family history is the systematic narrative and research of past events relating to a specific family, or specific families.- Introduction :...

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History

Retail Version

• RootsMagic version 1.0 was released 2003-02-04
• RootsMagic version 2.0 was released 2004-05-24
• RootsMagic version 3.0 was released 2005-09-08
• RootsMagic version 4.0 was released 2009-03-25 - Supports Unicode and a uses a single file (SQLite 3) for each project. Photos and source JPGs are still stored as separate files.

Free Version

• RootsMagic Essentials was released 2009-11-18

File Format

RootsMagic 4 database design uses SQLite

SQLite

SQLite is an ACID-compliant embedded relational database management system contained in a relatively small C programming library. The source code for SQLite is in the public domain and implements most of the SQL standard...

 3 as its database engine so the .rmgc database files it creates are readable using third party SQLite management and development tools.

Platforms

RootsMagic was designed to run on the Windows platform

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

, however some users run RootsMagic on Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

 machines using Wine

Wine (software)

Wine is a free software application that aims to allow computer programs written for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems. Wine also provides a software library, known as Winelib, against which developers can compile Windows applications to help port them to Unix-like...