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From: Ted Meikle <>
Subject: Re: [RMagic] RM5 and NewFamilySearch integration
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:20:30 -0700
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Dee, to log in you need your membership number and confirmation date.

You would need to visit your local ward and tell them you are in their
area. The membership clerk can request your records by computer. As soon
as they have your records, he can tell you your membership number and
confirmation date. With that info, you can register for
new.familysearch.org, and link it with RootsMagic.

Ted

On 1/14/2012 4:20 PM, Dee Fox wrote:
> I was baptized LDS but moved and never attended the local LDS church.
>
> I guess I'm with the non-LDS people then...?
>
> dee
>
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 11:16 AM, LB<> wrote:
>
>> 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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