RootsMagic 11 Smarter, simpler, and more powerful family history software
S&N are excited to announce the release of RootsMagic 11 UK Edition, the latest version of the award-winning genealogy software that helps you discover, document, and share your family history.
RootsMagic 11 builds on the already impressive features, with a user-friendly modern interface, smarter editing, and powerful new tools. A new Life Summary panel puts every key event and family connection in one view, while unified tabs for sources, notes, and tasks make editing seamless. Advanced search now gives customisable results, builds rules-based groups and exports to Excel/CSV, while the new innovative AI Prompt Builder lets you create reusable templates that auto-fill with a person’s details for ChatGPT or your favourite AI.
With new proof status options, improved reports, MacOS ARM support, and dozens of refinements, RootsMagic 11 gives genealogists more clarity, control, and flexibility than ever before.
What’s New in RootsMagic 11?
Improved Navigation
Find what you need faster. Clear, labelled view buttons and per-screen menus keep only the right commands in reach. The redesigned side panel has clear headers and quick-access icons for streamlined viewing and editing at a glance.
A life story at a glance
The new Life Summary puts a single view of a person’s key life events and family connections into the spotlight, while making it easy to add, edit, rearrange, or manage relatives. It gives you Events, Family, Notes, Sources, Media, and more at your fingertips.
[ The new RootsMagic 11 interface showing the easier navigation at the top and Life Summary on the left ]
Smoother Editing
RootsMagic 11 brings everything for a person into one place. New Sources, Tasks, and Notes tabs allow you to view and edit information across the board with powerful filters and inline edits. A new ‘Proposed’ proof status, along with clear visual icons, ensures your research reasoning is always transparent and easy to follow.
More Powerful Search Capabilities
Searching has been enhanced so you can now view each match’s Life Summary directly in the results, jump straight to editing, print or export instantly, and even turn any search into a rules-based group with a single click.
Impressive AI Prompt Builder
Create smart templates (such as ‘Write a memoir,’) which can be reused time and time again with the AI of your choice. Draft narrative biographies, obituaries, and more using selected details from your database, with options such as preferred output format. It’s not AI doing your research; it’s AI helping you write and explore ideas more efficiently.
New Features & Updates at a glance:
Modern Interface – Clear view buttons, streamlined menus, redesigned side panels, and a new Life Summary panel with all key events and family connections in one place.
Smarter Editing – Unified tabs for Sources, Notes, and Tasks let you edit everything for a person from a single screen.
Stronger Search – Customizable results, export to Excel/CSV, built-in Life Summaries, advanced rules, and instant rules-based groups.
AI Prompt Builder – Create reusable templates that auto-fill with person details, ready for ChatGPT or your favourite AI.
Proof Support – New “Proposed” proof type plus clear icons for proven, disproven, and disputed evidence.
Better Reports & Printing – New relationship charts, proof filters, and enhanced explorer tools.
Other Enhancements – MacOS ARM support, improved lists, clearer alerts, theme contrast options, and more.
RootsMagic 11 UK Edition is available now from the RootsMagic UK store at: www.RootsMagic.co.uk