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RootsMagic provides the most powerful search capabilities available in a genealogy program. RootsMagic helps you search for people in your database in one of two ways:
- "Search, Person List" – lets you search for people by name using RootsMagic Explorer
- The RootsMagic Explorer makes it easy to find anyone in your database. You can find any person by simply typing their name, or by entering information about them (birth date, death place, occupation, etc), or by their relationship with someone else (parent, child, spouse or sibling).
- You can view and edit any information about a person from the RootsMagic Explorer, or you can select a person to be displayed in the main view of RootsMagic.
- "Search, Family List" – lets you search for people who have a spouse or children (or both) using the Family List dialog.
- The Family List displays a list couples by Father and Mother and their marriage date, and lets you sort by any of these columns.
RootsMagic also has several other options to find specific people:
- You set a root person so you can always return to this person from anywhere.
- You can mark people using Bookmarks to go to them when desired.
- You can go to recently visited people using the History list.
Person Search
Person Search lets you search for people by a few simple criteria (name, birth or death date, and sex).
You can view and edit any information about a person from the results, or you can "go to" a person which selects that person in the Person Page.
Person Search (Advanced)
Advanced Person Search lets you find a person (or people) based on information other than the name (such as birth date, death place, etc).
WebSearch
Searches a selectable list of search providers for information on the person displayed
Find Everywhere
Find Everywhere is a global search feature where you enter text, and RootsMagic searches everywhere in the file for that text. Find Everywhere will search for people, families, events, places, notes, sources, citations, media, to-do items, research logs, and more for matches to text within any one of their fields. To learn more see