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From: LB <>
Subject: Re: [RMagic] RM5 and NewFamilySearch integration
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:27:17 -0800
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new.familysearch.org is the LDS site for LDS's newfamilysearch database for
LDS members only. RootsMagic 4-5 interrogates from the same database. You
can turn this feature on & off in RM4-5 and use when ready. IF you are LDS,
you can work now from RM instead of the new.familysearch.org site. I
actually find RM4-5 FamilySearch interrogation works much better than the
LDS site. It also saves from working from 2 different websites at the same
time, plus (it seems to me) that RM Familysearch works much smoother and
better than NFS and allows you to up & download facts into RM4-5 & NFS.

I also understand that when the newfamilysearch database goes public, it
will be renamed "Family Tree" and available at Familysearch.org, under the
"Search" tab. Non-LDS will have to create their own User ID & password, or
use your current ID, if you have already created one earlier (ie: indexing,
etc). The login will tell the database if you are a LDS member or not, and
then will supply the appropriate features.

I don't think Bruce can predict when "Family Tree" will become available to
the public, but feel quite comfortable in saying that when it happens - He &
RM will be ready & be quite functional. All you will have to do is "turn it
on when you want to use it."

(Note: LDS features have always been available in Bruce's database since the
ancient days of Family Origins)

Lynn

Steven Niedermeyer wrote:
> Hi Dee,
>
> There is a website published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
> Saints that is similar to the Ancestry.com's online family tree. It's
> located at: https://new.familysearch.org
>
> Currently I believe only members of the LDS Church have access to the
> NewFamilySearch website. However, they have announced that it's only a
> matter of time before it's open to everyone world-wide. When that happens,
> I suspect it will become just as popular or more so than the Ancestry.com
> online family trees because it will be free.
>
> I don't want to get cornered into a product (FamilyTreeMaker) that appears
> to intentionally have left out the interface to such a large online
> collection of information (NewFamilySearch). I can understand why they
> would as it's a competing product with Ancestry.com and they're trying to
> turn a profit. But it's a negative in my book because it basically creates
> two large silos of genealogical data on the Internet. So it's up to
> software developers to try to bridge the gap or for genealogists to double
> enter everything. Keeping everything in sync is tough these. My guess is
> Ancestry.com won't open their APIs (ability for software to talk directly to
> their website) in order to "synch" from RootsMagic anytime in the future.
> NewFamilySearch has published their APIs so that any software (including
> FamilyTreeMaker if Ancestry.com added that feature) can be certified to
> synch with the NewFamilySearch website. Maybe Bruce could comment on that
> point based on his experience to date.
>
> The closest I've been able to come to a happy medium is to use RootsMagic as
> my primary desktop software and once every couple of years I export a GEDCOM
> from RootsMagic and upload it to Ancestry.com. I feel it's important to
> publish to Ancestry.com because I get a number of genealogy contacts a month
> that have seen my online tree and sometimes provide info to me I didn't
> already have.
>
> Kind of long-winded, but hopefully that explains a little bit more.
>
> Steven
> Bellingham, WA
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> [mailto:] On Behalf Of Dee Fox
> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 9:42 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [RMagic] RM5 vs. Family Tree Maker 2012
>
> I'm still very new to RootsMagic - what do you mean about it being the Best
> NewFamilySearch integration?
>
> Thanks,
> dee
>
>
>
>
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