RootsPersona

  • rootspersona.org is open

    RootsPersona now has its own home: rootspersona.org. Here you will find step-by-step help in English and Russian, from the first GEDCOM upload to privacy settings, a reference of all shortcodes and answers to frequent questions.

    Start with Getting started. Questions and bug reports still go to the support forum on WordPress.org, see Support. A live demo you can try in the browser is coming next.

  • RootsPersona 4.3.0

    RootsPersona 4.3.0 is out on WordPress.org. It is the biggest release in years: the plugin now reads files from many more genealogy programs, gives the tree a front page and search, and puts photos and maps on the pages of people.

    From your genealogy program

    • GEDCOM 7.0 / 7.1, and GEDZIP (.gdz) or .zip archives with the photos.
    • Files from more programs: UTF-16, ANSEL, Windows code pages (Cyrillic “ANSI” recognised), KOI8-R; tags of married names, adoption, other names, the main photo and person codes.
    • Uploading a new version keeps people on their own pages even when the program renumbers them. A file of another tree is stopped before anything changes.
    • Export back to GEDCOM 5.5.1, GEDCOM 7.0 or GEDZIP with the photos, optionally without living people.
    • Import is 6 to 10 times faster: a tree of 5,000 people loads in about 16 seconds instead of 160.

    On the site

    • Upload photos: choose the photo folder of your tree, and the photos go onto the pages of their people. Any number of photos per page.
    • A map of the places of a life on the persona page.
    • A front page of the tree with faces, remembrance days, ways into the tree, timeline, surnames and places.
    • Instant search over all names, places and years and the posts of the site.
    • The chart of the whole tree from your program, with zoom and search, every person linked to their page.
    • Adoption and fostering, sources in all layouts, schema.org markup for search engines.

    Many fixes too: everything the GEDCOM file has is now kept, from coordinates to quoted source text. The full list is in the changelog. Update from Dashboard → Updates as usual; read Getting started to try the new tools.