It's a small gesture but seriously, respect peoples' time & effort in helping you out. It's perfectly OK to ask for any info if you're looking for fresh leads, but you can help people to focus their efforts & look at the correct sources if you are more specific. Be clear & specific about what info you want help finding.Here’s what you need to know about RootsMagic 7: Cost: 29. Don't make people waste their time by duplicating work. Because RootsMagic 7 and Essentials now sync with your Ancestry tree this program is a good alternative to Family Tree Maker for those who are not happy with the current offering. Include as much known information as you can.This advice will get you the best response from your research requests. Once you have your FamilySearch tree imported you need to go to each individual person on the tree and manually tell the program to import sources for that person. If your RootsMagic source has a WebTag, the URL for that WebTag will be included when you copy the source to FamilySearch. Unfortunately, when you import a FamilySearch tree to RootsMagic, Ancestral Quest, or Legacy Family Tree you can’t automatically import all the source citations. Unlike many genealogy programs, RootsMagic (29.95) is Mac-compatible. adding a step to convert to GEDCOM and then immediately transform again into Rootsmagics internal database format would limit Rootsmagic capabilities to that which is inherent in GEDCOM - I dont. What is the FamilySearch GEDCOM 7.0 standard. *Click on the thread titles to see the history Related Subs Some options (like copying a source from RootsMagic to FamilySearch) will also ask you to enter a reason why you are making that change. RootsMagic 7 is just one of many genealogy programs competing with industry leader Ancestry. Then import the edited text file into the partner software. Moderators may, at their discretion, remove posts that they consider harmful to the community.We don't want to discourage people from participating. Please use the downvote button sparingly to signify that a post or a comment is spam or contains incorrect information, not just because you disagree with it.Please do respond to those who offer their time to help you, even if just to say thanks.Everyone needs to see links without obfuscation. Fire & forget isn't polite, and will be considered spam. Posting your own site or work is OK in moderation, but please contribute to the community too.However I recently found out that a cousin has already done some research. But so far I have always logged on to FamilySearch and entered all the data manually into my FamilyTree, focusing on my father's side of the tree. No abuse, threats, harassment, hate slurs etc. Need help with FamilySearch, MyHeritage and RootsMagic. Of course, the exception is published information that the person has chosen to put into the public domain. Don't post living peoples' personal info.r/Genealogy Researchers Genealogy Resources If you are looking for specific help on a specific region, this post has a list of people willing to help with searches and lookups regarding certain areas.