The people at RootsMagic have just announed the latest update to their program. This update (version 4.0.9.8) adds several requested features and has fixed a number of issues.
For RootsMagic 4 users, if you have the RootsMagic News screen come up when you start RootsMagic, it may have already notified you of this update. If not, you can do “Help > Check for Updates” from the RootsMagic menu to download and install this update.
You can also download the update from http://www.rootsmagic.com/updates/rootsmagic.
Here are the new, fixed, and updated items in this update:
- Fixed problem with crashing under Windows 2000
- Place details display for birth/death in info view at top of main screens
- The rearrange children list now displays/sorts by christen date if no birth date exists
- Added Last edited date as optional column in customizing People View
- Added the newly updated FamilySearch (as of 14 Dec 2010) website to WebSearch
- Searching by age at marriage/family events works correctly now
- Fixed several problems with Family Origins importing
- Added some minor enhancements to duplicate search
- Fixed problem with footnotes sometimes printing wrong on Research Notes report
- Private notes in PAF import are now privatized up to the next blank line
- Fixed FTM import of citations with no master source and no footnote text
- Fixed FTM import when multiple birth facts exist
- Source (and detail) text and comment editors honor the font size selected for note editing
- Minor fixes in website creation
- Can now filter the NFS list based on named groups or ancestors of a person
- NFS can remember users login and password, and can automatically login to NFS
- Added numerous minor enhancements to NFS functions
- Fixed problem with crashing under Windows 2000
- Place details display for birth/death in info view at top of main screens
- The rearrange children list now displays/sorts by christen date if no birth date exists
- Added Last edited date as optional column in customizing People View
- Added the newly updated FamilySearch (as of 14 Dec 2010) website to WebSearch
- Searching by age at marriage/family events works correctly now
- Fixed several problems with Family Origins importing
- Added some minor enhancements to duplicate search
- Fixed problem with footnotes sometimes printing wrong on Research Notes report
- Private notes in PAF import are now privatized up to the next blank line
- Fixed FTM import of citations with no master source and no footnote text
- Fixed FTM import when multiple birth facts exist
- Source (and detail) text and comment editors honor the font size selected for note editing
- Minor fixes in website creation
- Can now filter the NFS list based on named groups or ancestors of a person
- NFS can remember users login and password, and can automatically login to NFS
- Added numerous minor enhancements to NFS functions
