Category Archives: Genealogy Software

How Did I Miss the Living Box in RootsMagic?

Sometimes I feel like a dork. I have had RootsMagic for a few years. Today, I was inputting some new ancestors born in the 1700s. For the first time, I glanced over and noticed the Living check box. Where the heck did that come from? I imagine it has been there all along, but I …

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SNGF: How Many Surnames: the Summation

I thought I’d wrap up what I found in this post.  These are the tallies for all three of these database. I should note that there is overlap in these database as some individuals are input into all 3 (like me!)  My tally will be slightly askew from that and my inability to add correctly …

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SNGF: How Many Surnames?

Tonight’s challenge from Randy Seaver’s Genea-Musing’s blog is to run some surname statistics.  I’m using RootsMagic to do my computations.  As my tree is separated into three databases, I’ll use the Pacheco – de Braga database for this test.  It’ll be the most impressive.  LOL While RootsMagic can give me a list of all the …

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