I LOVE YOU!
Thank you, Thank You, THANK YOU!
Friday RootsMagic released an update to their program that included an AutoMatch feature. I am eternally grateful for how much work this feature saved me. My computer started matching names early Friday evening and spent the next 60 hours working to match the names in my mom's family history file.
60 UNINTERRUPTED HOURS!
I kept praying that my internet connection would not be interrupted and that my computer would not crash!
Do you know how long it would have taken me to match up names? I had been working for 3 months, spent countless hours and had finally got 4,000 names matched up. I had done all the easy Swedish names and the remaining 44,000 names were the hard, time consuming names. I was planning on at least 3 to 4 years to get all the names matched. Thanks to AutoMatch I now have 41,277 names matched leaving me just 7659 names to manually match. There is still a lot of work to be done but the task is no longer quite so overwhelming!
To anyone who hasn't used new.familysearch that is probably just a bunch of gibberish but for me it's a huge blessing!
More about RootMagic's AutoMatch:
RootsMagic developed the AutoMatch feature over weeks of experimentation and guidance from FamilySearch. The AutoMatch examines each person in your RootsMagic file, searches the FamilySearch database for the person, and after carefully comparing them, matches them together if they are the same; all without requiring user intervention. "What used to take days of manual work is now done automatically in only a few hours," said Buzbee. "You can start the AutoMatch, leave it running while you do something else, and return later to find most of the matches found." Although the match is made automatically, no actual data is transferred without the user requesting it.
"Our users told us that this was one of the more time-consuming aspects of working with new FamilySearch," explained Bruce Buzbee, president of RootsMagic, Inc. "If you had an average-sized file with 6000 people, it may take you several days of repetitive work just tomatch each one up with new FamilySearch. People want to be able to jump in and actually work with new FamilySearch and matching by hand was always a tedious first step." Buzbee added, "The new AutoMatch feature does most of this grunt work for you so you can just begin sharing data about your ancestors."
