August 2008

GEDCOM

GEDCOM is a file format developed to enable moving genealogy data between software and platforms (like Mac, Windows, and Linux), through processes called export and import.

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Plenty of Fluids, Rest, and Genealogy

Doing family history research is a fine way to pass the time when one is sick. The sleuthing has the magical ability to fully absorb me, making time flow quickly and smoothly past. Under such conditions my symptoms are scarcely felt and the entire situation seems not so bad at all. It almost makes me [...]

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How to Name Files that Contain a Misspelled Name

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Misspelled names are common in genealogy. Fortunately it’s easy to deal with if you follow a consistent, well thought out approach. What approach ought to be taken when the the name of a person in a file is wrong? Ignoring the error by naming the file with only the correct spelling will make finding the [...]

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Secrets to Restoring Family Photos with iPhoto

How many faded, discolored, family photos do you have? Would you like to breath life back into them? Your Macintosh is built to excel at this kind of work. Let me show you how to quickly go from this:

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How to Consistently Locate Multimedia Files with Style

There’s a new way to locate media files on your Mac. Karelia Software just released iMediaBrowser. This little application lets you access your image, movie, and audio files the same way, regardless of the application with which you want to use them. For example, you can insert images of evidence into source citations using iMediaBrowser [...]

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Family File

The term for a single database file in Leister Productions’ Reunion genealogy software for Mac. Each family file may contain one or more names, events, facts, sources, notes, and links to multimedia files (images, video, sound).

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Active Source

A feature in Mac genealogy software iFamily for Leopard that streamlines the addition of multiple, cited pieces of data from the same source. It accomplishes this by collecting the source data information if it has not already been entered then entering a state wherein any data added to the database is cited automatically, using the [...]

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How to Customize Your Ancestry.com Home Page

If you’re an Ancestry.com subscriber like me, you may have noticed that The Generations Network, Inc. have improved your home page. You can now move the content of the page around to put things where you like. They also created a My Quick Links box in the right column. This enables you to add links to [...]

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Creating A Comparison of Macintosh Genealogy Software

Last weekend I began diligently working on a set of Mac genealogy software reviews. I discovered that I have some groundwork to do. Determining what applications are out there that are still being actively improved proved difficult. There isn’t a recent list of them. Something had to be done! If I can’t find a list [...]

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A Better Way to Locate Unconnected People in iFamily for Leopard

The previous article described an approach to finding “unconnected people” in iFamily for Leopard. Keith Wilson, the creator of iFamily, commented on that article. He pointed out that there is a more direct way of getting a list of unconnected people. His directions were:

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