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Both distort area but there's little practical difference here. You get the choice of plotting on a globe you can rotate or as a flat projection with a choice of Cartesian or Mercator. You can also create an unlimited number of atlas files which contain your markers, genealogy data, and map information. Sets of markers can be saved for re-use, and you can have several such databases. You can also add text, lines, text bubbles, photographs and other objects. Markers can be added by hand, making possible historical marker sets like 'Civil War battle sites'.Д«oth hand-entered and data-based markers can easily be combined on the same map. You can also easily annotate your own custom markers, which are automatically tied to the genealogy data. Markers can sub-divide your categories to show, for example, where people with the surname Jones are buried, or where an individual's ancestors were born. Place markers aren't associated with your genealogy data and can be placed wherever you specify. You must import a genealogy file before you can create a genealogy marker set. You get two types of marker: genealogy markers and place markers. You can, for example, use different marker shapes and colours to differentiate places of birth, marriage or death. You choose what the marker will look like, what data it represents, and where it will appear. In Family Atlas, locations are created from sets of markers. Genealogy markers can pinpoint events or places from your family history. You can choose a place and Family Atlas will show all the events from your database that are within a specified distance from it.ДЇamily Atlas can import a list of places to display from your genealogy program, or from a text or Excel file.ДЇamily Atlas can plot the locations of events from your genealogy program.

The world location database can be displayed as a gazetteer that will also show you the exact location of that place on the map and a list of the places you can find nearby. In addition to working with the RootsMagic programs, it also works with Family Tree Maker, Legacy, Personal Ancestral File 5, and any GEDCOM file. It can then plot these on a map, revealing your family's geographic origins. It works by importing your family files, then geo-coding your ancestral places (allocating latitude and longitude to them) using its integral 3.5 million-name world location database. You could use Family Atlas by itself but it's easier if you use it in conjunction with existing data from your family tree software.

#Rootsmagic review windows#

To run Family Atlas you'll need Windows XP/95/98/ME/NT and 2000 256MB RAM 200MB hard drive space and a CD drive. You can buy it in the UK from S&N Genealogy Supplies ( or 01722 716121) for ВЈ32.45 (including p&p).

#Rootsmagic review software#

Genealogy Reviews - RootsMagic Family AtlasДЇamily Atlas is Windows place-plotting software from RootsMagic, publisher of RootsMagic 3, Personal Historian, and Family Reunion Organizer.