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The Common Room / Re: Ancestry "tree search" is a joke! any alternatives?
« on: Thursday 11 November 21 02:17 GMT (UK) »
Hello Gary,
I use the Rootsmagic program to complement my Ancestry trees. You can upload your Ancestry tree to Rootsmagic and then take advantage of their searching, sorting and listmaking capabilities.
Using your example, if I wanted to find families that lived on a certain street, I would just use the Rootsmagic 'Search Everywhere' feature to look for anywhere that street name appeared in my tree. You can also print a list of everyone that lived in a certain place.
Using the Rootsmagic 'Places' feature, you can go through a gazetteer of all place names in your tree and find ones that are misspelled or wrongly entered. Then pop back to your Ancestry tree in another tab and locate the person whose info you want to make changes to.
It's not as easy as just using one program for everything, but if you like to work in Ancestry, Rootsmagic can help a lot.
There is a free version of Rootsmagic, I believe, but I pay for the full version which is a one-time expense of about $40 US.
Hope this helps!
Grisel
I use the Rootsmagic program to complement my Ancestry trees. You can upload your Ancestry tree to Rootsmagic and then take advantage of their searching, sorting and listmaking capabilities.
Using your example, if I wanted to find families that lived on a certain street, I would just use the Rootsmagic 'Search Everywhere' feature to look for anywhere that street name appeared in my tree. You can also print a list of everyone that lived in a certain place.
Using the Rootsmagic 'Places' feature, you can go through a gazetteer of all place names in your tree and find ones that are misspelled or wrongly entered. Then pop back to your Ancestry tree in another tab and locate the person whose info you want to make changes to.
It's not as easy as just using one program for everything, but if you like to work in Ancestry, Rootsmagic can help a lot.
There is a free version of Rootsmagic, I believe, but I pay for the full version which is a one-time expense of about $40 US.
Hope this helps!
Grisel