RootsMagic provides a large number of ways to search your database, including Basic Search, Advanced Search, Find Everywhere, WebSearch and Search and Replace. To access these searches, select the Search Page then click the button for the desired search.

 

 

Basic Search

Basic Search lets you search for people by a few simple criteria (name, birth or death date, and sex).

 

You can view and edit any information about a person from the results, or you can "go to" a person which selects that person in the Person Page.

 

Advanced Search

Advanced Search lets you find a person (or people) based on many types of information combined with boolean operations.

 

You can view and edit any information about a person from the results, or you can "go to" a person which selects that person in the Person Page.

 

Find Everywhere

Find Everywhere is a global search feature where you enter text, and RootsMagic searches everywhere in the file for that text. Find Everywhere will search for people, families, events, places, notes, sources, citations, media, to-do items, research logs, and more for matches to text within any one of their fields.

 

WebSearch

WebSearch lets you search a selectable list of search providers for information on the person displayed.

 

Other Search Options

•Search and replace lets you search for text in various record types and replace with other text

•Root person lets you set a root person so you can always return to this person from anywhere.

•Bookmarks let you mark people to go to them when desired.

•History list lets you go to recently visited people.

•People List lets you search a live list of people in your file

•Couple List lets you search a live list of marriages (couples) in your file