The Note Window is a new floating window (more on these below) designed for viewing and editing notes, and supporting all the new word processing features, plus… You can also generate Timelines for individuals and families. These timelines can show major events, including births, marriages, divorces, and deaths. You can create timelines for whole family groups or only one person. How Related Fonts and text styles (bold, italic, underline and strike-out), text and highlight colouring, paragraph styles (bullets, indentation, alignment). The Places tool remains unchanged in RootsMagic 9, but it still neatly consolidates all your locations and maps in one place. Viewing, managing, and editing places is easy thanks to the fact the Edit Place dialog sits within the main interface as opposed to requiring a separate pop-up window, plus you can now edit place links to people and events from here too. Project-level fact definitions. Fact definitions specify how information is presented in reports and books. Now fact definitions can optionally be stored as part of a project, so you can be sure that if you give family members a copy of your project, any reports or books that they generate from the data will look the same.

Support for autotext . Autotext is mentioned elsewhere in the context of source transcriptions, research notes and data entry assistants, but it can also be used for any general purpose insertion of pre-prepared text. In Family Historian reports it says that person X has died when they haven’t. Why is this and what can I do about it?

Extensive new power-user features. Technically sophisticated users create program extensions (called plugins), which can be shared via the Family Historian plugin store, so that all users can benefit. Now there are even more possibilities for power-users. Other new features include tools for analyzing DNA data, matching with MyHeritage records, and support for GEDCOM 5.5.1. Core Features Undo/Redo buttons on the Note Window toolbar, allow multi-level changes to be undone or redone. This is over and above the usual multi-level undo/redo on the main Edit menu. This is traditionally a weak point in Family Tree Maker, but recent improvements have included a Photo Darkroom tool that’s designed to improve pictures that have faded with age. You can now also select a primary photo for a person, then choose a headshot from it to use as a thumbnail, improving the overall look of your tree. Family Historian 7 supports several traditional genealogical charts. These charts include the Everyone Diagram, which was updated for the new version. Additionally, you can view a tree with all relatives and indirect relatives. Traditional pedigree and waterfall views are also available. Another very helpful feature are the four new DNA Diagrams.

Heredis boasts a decent set of tools for managing your media, from photos to scanned documents. Media can be attached to a wide range of elements, from people and families to places and sources. There are some basic photo correction tools built-in, and you can easily attach photos to individuals and families, plus link people to headshots that can be selected as their profile picture. New in 2024 is the ability to rename a picture’s filename from within the program.If you are thinking of investing in Family Historian 7, be aware that your computer will need to have Windows 10, 8.1, 8 or 7 installed on it. Family Historian 7 review: Ease of use