Whats New

These are the highlights of some of the major new features in RootsMagic 8:

Native MacOS support
Open databases in separate windows to support multiple monitors
Easily switch between different data lists (sources, places, tasks, media, etc) without losing your place in those lists
Live edit for sources, places, tasks, media, etc
Open multiple edit screens at same time
Access other data lists (sources, places, tasks, media, etc) w/o having to close Edit Person screen(s) first
Persistent search results let you switch to other screens / data w/o having to regenerate search
View and edit immediate family members directly from a person's edit screen (timeline)
Map any group of people (not limited to immediate family anymore)
Fan charts
Save wall charts to PDF
Photos on Pedigree view
Expand and collapse generations on descendant view
Couple view
Reusable citations
View uses of sources / citations directly from source / citation list
Tasks (all new)
- Tasks can be attached to multiple people
- Tasks can be attached to actual (multiple) source records
- Tasks can be attached to multiple media, addresses, or repositories
- Tasks can be filtered by any combination of data, people, families, events, places, place details, names, sources, citations, addresses, repositories, media, or folders
- Quickly filter tasks by repository, address, media, source, citation, place, or person
New report and charting engine
Command pallette
More colors for color coding
Quickly view, add or remove people from multiple groups at once
Relative media paths

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