Roots Magic will create a page that looks like this where your information is summarized and clear. No more laboriously trying to work by hand between your own ancestral records and the new Family Search! It is done for you.
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As you create a paper with a bar code, take it to the temple, and work on these ordinances, Roots Magic will automatically update your site, as the Church’s site does. It is like putting an interface so that when you are working with the new Family Search, you are connected to your own data. Reserving an ordinance to be done in Roots Magic reserves it on the new Family Search. You can actually reserve a name whose work needs to be done right inside of Roots Magic, where you are keeping and building your own ancestral files.
You can pull up the new Family Search as a split screen with Roots Magic, allowing you to see what temple work has been done for that person, what isn’t complete, and what needs to be done. That means it is actually tied to the new FamilySearch, so if you turn on the support link for it as you work on Roots Magic, an icon will show if the ancestor you are looking at is matched on the Church’s site, having automatically searched for that name. What is perhaps the best-kept secret about Roots Magic is that it is certified to work with the new FamilySearch site. I have to admit, as I have been playing with and using the new 4.0 version of Roots Magic, I kept saying aloud, “This is so cool.” “That’s not always true,” Buzbee said, “but we wanted to make it fun for everybody. Genealogy is one of the most popular hobbies in the world, and the standing joke among enthusiasts is that everybody else does genealogy because they love it, and Mormons do it because they have to. It said, “I want to thank you a lot for messing up the rest of my day.” Buzbee, at first thought, “Oh no, what have I done?”, but as it turned out the writer had downloaded the program and was having so much fun with it, he stayed up through the night, too excited and intrigued for sleep.
In fact, he got an email one morning at 4:00 a.m., from somebody who just purchased Roots Magic.