I want to be able to have users/family login to RootsMagic from the Internet and be able to contribute their family to my trees. Possible? Multiple users, possibly hundreds!
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No. RM allows you to take selected data from the public Family Search Family Tree and from your TreeShared Ancestry Tree. Anyone can contribute and modify the former while you can add Editors to the Ancestry Tree. It’s up to you to detect changes made by others and to decide what to do with them on the shared tree and on your personal RM tree.
It is not impossible, but moreso …impractical for the technical machinations you’d have to set up and deal with.
Not with RM, but you could use TNG (Google it) and refresh your tree using that. The difficult part is tracking your online changes and reflecting them back to RM.
It’s not possible with RM to allow an online party into your database - that’s why the op tagged it as a feature request. It is possible to allow others to view a filtered snapshot of your database via the MyRootsMagic website.
Not true. If Granny can have her nephew log in to her computer… control it to navigate, run programs and solve her problem, then your brother can log in to your other computer that has a second legal installation of RootsMagic and run the program to update the (latest) copy of your database that has been transferred by you from the original machine. Some of those options would range from using dedicated programs like Parsec, TeamViewer, RustDesk or Chrome Remote Desktop to running TailScale or manually setting up a home VPN (for remote users to use native Windows Remote Desktop Services).
My RootsMagic website.
Yes, you can use it, but it has its major limitations. I recently loaded my database but what came out was a big disappointment. Young people are completely left out, not even me who is 88 years old is there. I don’t know where the intersection is.
I still haven’t figured out how to open the website to others, doesn’t seem straight forward.
What causes this filter? Are there any laws that prohibit this? Hardly since there is limited access. After all, within RM we have many reports that we can share with others where there are no restrictions. IS RM’s mentioned website just in its infancy?
sure! That’s a long way from
, for which my practical answer to the question remains “No”.
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…does not allow other users to upload to your tree.
As to your problem that it omits young people, it sounds like the result of your settings:
“While your entire database is uploaded to the server, you can choose who will be displayed using the filtering options (and the privatizing options mentioned later). You can either hide people in groups, or show only people in groups.”
Edit: corrected link
It is what I said it is. No claim for hundreds was made. No claims of concurrency were made. I merely hinted that people could consecutively log in to a second machine and add to a database. Even a hundred a week. I wafted practicality in my very first reply.
I suspect the OP wasn’t expecting commercial-type capabilities. Just family, fellow researchers, and such.
TomH
Thanks, I will look at it, but your link is incorrect, see https://www.helpandmanual.com/help/myrootsmagic.html
my understanding MyRootsMagic is READ Only. so I guess its possible to feature enhancement to have a two way sync . Maybe with a subscription versison.
The link I posted came off my phone’s browser from which I had copied the text. Here’s the correct one:
without getting into the consequence of letting dozens or more alter database…
Not possible with RM or MyRootsMagic.
The closet wrong around that comes to mind would be to set up TNG site – then give them editor access. You could then download the GEDCOM and import to RM to make changes but you likely would encounter cleanup as result – you would also have to deal with media.
If you were more skilled with databases you might be able to user mySql (TNG) and sqlite to import to DM database. You would need advanced skills and database for that. The Gedcom export (from TNG) and import(to RM) is fairly straight forward other than the potential mess & conflicts.
TNG is a great program to display the RM Database - but not well designed to back to RM but its the best option that comes to mind.
Working through an Ancestry tree is my preferred way of collaborating with others. You would need the full version of RM to make edits. Ancestry will let you work with a guest tree if you don’t have a subscription.
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