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Person Search
"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.
Person Search (Advanced)
Search by any information (Find)
If you want to find a person (or people) based on information other than the name (such as birth date, death place, etc), click the "Find" button at the top of the Explorer window to bring up the "Search for information" dialog. You can then use the "Prior" and "Next" buttons to move back and forth through the list using the search criteria.
WebSearch
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 Find Everywhere