#Getting the most out of rootsmagic 7 upgrade#
#Getting the most out of rootsmagic 7 full#

I imported my file into RootsMagic which took an amazingly short time, so short that I was sure there was a problem. I feel a bit guilty, like I’m abandoning an old friend or an old car that has served me so well for a very long time. So, here’s my last look at PAF on my computer. RootsMagic offers a “RootsMagic for PAF Users Guide” which made me feel better.RootsMagic felt very PAFlike to me in terms of screen layout and functions, just PAF on steroids.RootsMagic had everything that I wanted but without being overly complex, cluttered or busy.The reviews were unanimously and overwhelmingly positive for RootsMagic, with data bases far larger than mine with its 37,000+ records. Specifically, anyone with large notes files, if the entire notes file came over, or they lost data. I asked several people with large data bases if they had problems when they converted.I evaluated several software packages, but it came down to two, Legacy and its competitor, RootsMagic. We went on to become and remain very close friends. I just remember wondering if our unknown “cousinhood” was the reason we got along so well. I mean, you never know when you’re going to need to refer to your genealogy! If you think I’m kidding, I met one my closest cousins, Kathy, at a client site about 15 years ago (how can it have been that long?) completely by accident and yes, we compared our family trees on my laptop.

#Getting the most out of rootsmagic 7 upgrade#

Recently, I had a forced upgrade to Window 10 with the purchase of a new laptop, and I need my genealogy on my laptop.

#Getting the most out of rootsmagic 7 full#

So, I’ve used it for the past 2+ years unsupported, but I know full well that with the advent of new operating systems, one day it’s not going to work anymore and I surely don’t want to have a crisis and have to adapt on top of a crisis situation. To me, software is only a tool and the tool I had was fine. I didn’t want to have to take the time to evaluate and learn anything else. When the Mormon Church discontinued support for PAF in 2013, I was greatly saddened, not because the software had been free and I was now going to have to purchase software, but because I knew that software so well and was so comfortable using it. I later discovered I should have been using source fields and such, but I’m not even sure there was a source field initially. I probably didn’t use it exactly correctly, because I typed everything into the notes field which was, thankfully, of unlimited size. It allowed me to organize my information. I worked in the computer industry and they wanted to see how this new-fangled computer software thing worked.

When I first installed PAF back in the 1980s on my old CPM machine, everyone at the local Family History Center was cautiously curious.