W03 RootsMagic Research Tools Flashcards
(42 cards)
A feature of the RootsMagic program which can verify if a county, state, or country existed on a certain date. This feature can also suggest alternative jurisdictions (if a jurisdiction that you entered did not exist on the date you entered) and standardized place names.
County Check
In RootsMagic, facts are any piece of information you know about an individual. Typically, facts consist of a fact type (for example, Birth), a date (like 3 August 2000), and a place (for example, Taylorsville, Salt Lake, Utah, United States). In RootsMagic, relationships are not treated as facts but as a link between two individuals.
Fact
In RootsMagic, a family fact is a fact which is automatically shared with the spouse of the individual to whom the fact was added.
Family Fact
A database format which almost all genealogical database programs can import and export. Typically, these are used when someone wants to share information with an individual who is using a different genealogical program.
GEDCOM
A computer file used to store genealogical information. While the contents of databases differ depending on the program used to create them, every genealogical database includes individuals, facts and events, and relationships to other individuals.
Genealogical Database
Bring in data from one database to another. In RootsMagic, you can import individuals from many genealogical database formats or from new FamilySearch.
Import
In a RootsMagic database, enabling LDS support will display the status of ordinances.
LDS Support
Images, sounds, or other files in RootsMagic which can be linked to an individual or event.
Media
Combining information. In RootsMagic, you can merge individuals, places, sources, and repositories (places where data or documents are stored).
Merge
In a RootsMagic database, enabling FamilySearch support will place a FamilySearch icon next to each individual. Click it to either compare the individual to the record with which they are matched on FamilySearch’s Family Tree (covered in RootsMagic Part 2), or to create a match with an individual on Family Tree.
FamilySearch Support
A number assigned to each individual in a genealogical database. Typically, the first individual added to the database is given the record number of 1, the second is given the record number of 2, and so forth.
Record Number
In RootsMagic, the research item is the date, goal, repository searched, and results of a search. One research log typically contains multiple research items.
Research Item
A form used to track your research. It includes where you have looked and what you have found.
Research Log
A software program used to create and maintain a genealogical database for this course.
RootsMagic
The process of ensuring dates and places follow a specific format. Dates should be written as Day Month Year and places as City, County, State, Country (or whatever jurisdictions may have existed at the time and place of the event). Abbreviations are not used for places or dates except in RootsMagic and other software programs where months are automatically truncated.
Standardization
True or false: County check will tell you if the county or state that you entered existed on the date you entered.
True
If you add a family event, the event is automatically shared with the individual’s:
Spouse
Children
Parents
Siblings
Spouse
If you add a census event to the father of a family, how can you share that event with his child?
1) While editing the child, select “Get event.”
2) While editing the father, click the event and then select “Share.”
3) While editing the father, click the event and then select “Send event.”
4) While editing the child, select “Browse recent events.”
2) While editing the father, click the event and then select “Share.”
True or False: You can add a fact for an individual if that fact type is not already in the individual list of facts.
True
True or False: There are several ways to do the same things when using built-in research tools and helps in RootsMagic.
True
The main purpose of a research log is to:
1. Track where you have looked and what you have found.
2. Track what you would like to do next.
3. Track the changes you have made to your database.
4. Track the individuals you have viewed recently in your database.
- Track where you have looked and what you have found.
In RootsMagic 8, the Research Log and To-Do lists have been consolidated into which tab?
- Tasks
- People
- Sources
- Publish
- Tasks
The main purpose of a to-do list is to:
1. Track where you have looked and what you have found.
2. Track what you would like to do next.
3. Track the changes you have made to your database
4. Track the individuals you have viewed recently in your database.
- Track what you would like to do next.
The purpose of the Problem Search feature in RootsMagic 8 is to:
1. Show you potential data entry problems in your database to help you detect errors before printing reports.
2. Help you locate ancestors for which you entered an incorrect or unstandardized place of birth or death.
3. Help you merge duplicate people in your database.
4. Correct spelling and grammatical errors in your database.
- Show you potential data entry problems in your database to help you detect errors before printing reports.
