# Personal Historian Update Plans

**URL:** <https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/personal-historian-update-plans/734>\
**Category:** Personal Historian\
**Created:** [October 3, 2021, 1:55pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/personal-historian-update-plans/734 "2021-10-03T13:55:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![SteveC](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/stevec/32/2487_2.png) [@SteveC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/SteveC)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2021, 1:55pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/personal-historian-update-plans/734/1 "2021-10-03T13:55:03Z")

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Are there plans to update Personal Historian so it can import RM8 files? And will the update included the capability to handle shared events correctly?

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**Author:** ![rzamor1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/rzamor1/32/8_2.png) [@rzamor1](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/rzamor1)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2022, 10:07pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/personal-historian-update-plans/734/2 "2022-01-04T22:07:04Z")

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Yes, eventually we will have Personal Historian capable of a direct import of the RootsMagic 8 file extension. For now use a GEDCOM to import into Personal Historian. Inside of RootsMagic 8 go to File, Export Data, GEDCOM to create the file needed to import into Personal Historian and Family Atlas. I cannot speak to if we will eventually add support of shared events. I have reported it as a request.