They both have templates based on Elizabeth Shown Mills' Evidence Explained, but RootsMagic has more specific and accurate templates than Legacy does.
The sourcing function in RootsMagic is more sophisticated than Legacy's. Only the event and the description of the event would show up. Still, the parent's age would not show up in the edit person view. I think that in Legacy, I could create a "Child Birth" event, but then it would show up double on the chronology view/report, unless I told it to not use this event in reports. It does not show up in the edit person view. In Legacy, the child's birth only shows up in the Chronology view for a parent. In the parent's edit person screen, the child's birth shows up in the facts list, and the parent's age at the time of the child's birth is given. I can also assign roles to these people.Īnother neat thing in RootsMagic is that you can share a child's birth event with the parents. I think this is going to be really great for census records. I can choose as many people as I want and even add new people that are not already in my database. In RootsMagic, I can just double click on the event in the edit person screen, then click on "share" to the right, and choose the other people involved in the event. Legacy requires a lot of clicking and switching screen shots to copy and paste an event. I also like that it's much easier to share an event between individuals in RootsMagic than in Legacy. For the child's marriage age in Legacy, you would have to go into the child's family view and then click on his or her marriage info screen, so that involves even more clicking! In Legacy, you can see the age at marriage, but you have to click on the marriage information screen to see this. In RootsMagic, I can also see the age at marriage in the family view for the husband, wife, or child highlighted.
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There is an option in Legacy to toggle over a child to see the full info in a popup box, but even then, some of the info is cut off. In Legacy, each child is listed in the family view, but it only has the name of the child and the birth and death years, such as "John Doe (1896-1940)." I had the full family view using FTM and was slightly disappointed when I switched to Legacy and no longer had the full view. In the family view, a couple and their children are shown with the full birth and death info on the screen for each child.
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I really don't want to change software again, but I really like several features of RootsMagic.įirst, the layout of RootsMagic is more telling on the screen. Who knows? Maybe I will be converted to RootsMagic by the time of the cruise. However, since I've been using it in the last twelve hours and testing out some of the features, I *think* I like it better than Legacy. From some reviews I'd seen of it, I thought that it wasn't much different from Legacy. Since I've decided to take the RootsMagic cruise, I've been testing out their software.
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