RootsMagic
RootsMagic is a genealogy app for Mac that helps you build, organize, research, and share family trees on your own computer.
What is RootsMagic?
RootsMagic is a family history and genealogy app for Mac that helps users build and manage detailed family trees. It is designed for genealogists, family historians, and anyone preserving relatives, events, places, sources, and media in one desktop database. The app can start a tree from scratch or import data from other genealogy programs and GEDCOM files, which is useful when moving an existing research project into one place. RootsMagic also supports working with online genealogy services such as Ancestry and FamilySearch while keeping your main tree stored locally on your computer. Users commonly use it to document relationships, attach records and photos, track research, and create printable charts and reports. RootsMagic is published by RootsMagic, Inc. and is available for both Mac and Windows.
Key features
- Build and edit family trees with multiple people and relationship views
- Import genealogy data from GEDCOM and other family history programs
- Work with Ancestry and FamilySearch from the desktop app
- Attach sources, notes, places, tasks, and media to people and events
- Create charts, reports, and other publishable family history outputs
- Search and organize large trees with lists, bookmarks, and navigation tools
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Safety overview
Status: Safe
RootsMagic is legitimate genealogy software for creating and managing family history data. It is normal for this kind of app to store names, dates, places, notes, sources, and family photos in its databases, so the main privacy consideration is the sensitivity of the research you choose to keep there. If you connect online services such as Ancestry or FamilySearch, use only the accounts you intend to link and keep regular backups of your tree files and media.
Recommendation: Keep RootsMagic if you use it for family history research or need access to your genealogy databases, charts, and linked media. Remove it only if you no longer use the app and have already exported or backed up any family tree files you want to preserve.
Common paths
/Applications/RootsMagic 12.app
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/RootsMagic
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.rootsmagic.RootsMagic12.plist
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