September 2008

How to Add Perspective Events to an Ages List in Reunion 9

Reunion for Mac Ages List with Michigan Perspective Events

Reunion for Mac perspective events can help you connect with your ancestors by better understanding their life experiences. They can be used in the timeline chart and the ages list. The ages list gives you a different view of history than the timeline chart. It’s primary purpose is to convey a person’s age at the [...]

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How to Add Perspective to Reunion for Mac Timelines

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Reunion for Mac can generate timelines and enables you to easily add historical events to your charts. In Reunion for Mac, these are called perspective events. Timeline charts are a great way to learn about your ancestors. They help you visualize people’s lives in the context of the other people whom you include. Choosing who [...]

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What Every MacGenealogist Ought to Know About New FamilySearch

What Is New FamilySearch? The LDS Church has developed a web application to enable people to contribute to and work with interconnected databases of genealogical information. The most significant features of this new system are: multiple people can make assertions of facts records can include source citations temple ordinance features a single, linked, pedigree the [...]

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How to See More Information About Children and Parents in Reunion 9

The family card in Reunion 9 can display children and parents as buttons or lists. The list mode displays more information about parents and children. The fields displayed can also be configured. For example, the birth and death places can be added to the view. This video from the MacGenealogist Archives demonstrates the child and [...]

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Genealogy File and Folder Organization System for Mac, Part 8

Once you’ve used the GenealogyTools Genealogy File and Folder Organization System for a while you may wonder: “Is there a way to see a list of all the alias files or folders that point to an original?” The answer is, yes! Aliases are powerful enough in their ability to save space and organize your genealogy [...]

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The Quickest Way to Move from One Person to Another in Reunion 9

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There is a little known way to move from one research subject to another in Reunion for Mac 9. It takes only one mouse click and it doesn’t involve the index. Do you know what it is? It’s called the Quickbar. Once configured, it is a strip of buttons above the family card. It works [...]

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MacGenealogist.com Featured in Genealogy Gems Podcast Episode 51

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An audio version of my recent review of genealogy software, Reunion 9 for Mac is featured in the Genealogy Gems Podcast episode released today. It’s episode 51 in the free podcast. It can be downloaded to your iPod or played directly on the GenealogyGems.TV website. If you are not already a subscriber of this podcast, [...]

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iFamily for Leopard 2.443 Review

A maverick, solid, and modestly priced Macintosh genealogy application. Product Overview iFamily for Leopard is one of the most popular genealogy data management applications for Macintosh. With it one can store, update, explore, and report on family history data. The data can consist of names, events, sources, notes, and links to image files. There is [...]

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MacFamilyTree 5.3 Beta 1 Announced

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The first beta test release of MacFamilyTree version 5.3 was announced by Synium Software GmbH on Tuesday. The final release of version 5.3 is expected to ship in early October. Upgrades are $25.00 USD. The upgrade will be free to those who purchased MacFamilyTree 4 on or after August 14th, 2007. The beta version can [...]

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Leaving Server Problems Behind

I copied this blog to a new hosting company last night in preparation for moving the site this weekend. After awakening this morning to the site (still at the troubled Midphase) down, I flipped the switch that would start the process of getting visitors directed to the blog at its new location. That process should [...]

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