Rootsmagic Duplicate Search Merge (v4.0.9.6)

This is a great feature in any genealogy program but in Rootsmagic v4 unfortunately it's a case of only it gave reliable and speedy performance. The user applies certain match criteria and the program scans the database and presents you with possible duplicate matches. Rootsmagic will assign a certain probability score to the match and you decide whether to merge the individuals or not and then move to the next possible match. 

Rootsmagic V4 moved a stage further than the simple text based list by providing a graphical colour system to help easily see what data matches and what does not. Green is a match, Yellow a possible and Red highlights conflicting information.

Some issues were addressed by the developers in version 4.0.9.5 but there still reports on the message boards that all is not exactly as it should be. I received a report written by one Rootsmagic user describing differences between the performance of RM3 and RM4 in what is merged automatically and what RM4 presents as possible matches. Read Helens report and download the files used on this link and test for yourself.

There also remains a very valid point as to why some of the individuals who appear through this Duplicate Search Merge feature have not already been merged during the Automatic Merges like the example below where you can see and individual facts are a match, even the spouse is a match, the only difference being the children.