January 2009

Mailing Addresses in Reunion 9 for Mac

Reunion 9 for Mac can store contact information for people in your family files. Mailing addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and web addresses can be stored for individuals and families. Contact lists can be generated and the information can be included in reports such as a family group sheet. You can even copy the information [...]

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Here’s a Way to Quickly Enter Data About Children in Reunion 9

When you have genealogy data about children to enter into your family file you can accomplish the task fastest by using the batch entry and editing window of Reunion 9. Name, gender, status, birth, and death information can all be edited in a tabular form on one window, which is much faster than editing each [...]

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How Reunion 9 Users Can Find More Relatives Faster

How You Can Find More Relatives Faster If you don’t have enough time for your genealogy research and would like to have more, the MacGenealogist Archives may be the best solution for you. You see, genealogy research is subject to Parkinson’s law: “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” You [...]

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MacFamilyTree Updated to 5.3.8

Synium Software have released an update to their Mac genealogy software MacFamilyTree. This takes the version from 5.3.7 to 5.3.8. According to the Software Update window the changes are: Date picker for date text fields Date format parsing improved Fixes for the Virtual Tree Search Pane can be opened with Command-F Database Maintenance fixes Other [...]

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How I Find and Correct Duplicate Place-Names

You may be surprised by the number of different ways you’ve entered the same place-name in your Reunion 9 for Mac family file. This is especially true if you don’t routinely check for and correct duplicate place-names. I recommend putting this on your calendar to do periodically just like checking for “unlinked people.” In this [...]

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Extra Commas in Place-Names

Many MacGenealogists noticed my use of “extra” commas in place-names while viewing the Speed Names screencast. A number of viewers were so curious that they asked why I include them. I chose to write the answer as an article so that those who were not bold (or curious) enough to ask could also be informed. [...]

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Speed Names Video Problem Fixed

I have corrected the problem that was causing the Speed Names video to load slowly. As a result the link in the email won’t work anymore. The links in the previous article have been updated too, so they will work. Thanks to everyone who notified me of the trouble. I apologize for the inconvenience.

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Speed Names

The function in genealogy software for Mac, Reunion 9 that “remembers”  recently typed place names and surnames and “types” them for you upon further use is called speed names. This auto-population occurs in the edit person and edit family windows as well as in lists, when you begin typing a surname or place name. The characters [...]

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Screencast CD Volume 2 Update

I can hardly believe I forgot to mention one big change when I wrote about the improvements in the upcoming screencast CD volume 2: I’m so confident that you will prefer having my videos on CD that I guarantee it! The fulfillment company offers a 30 day refund. Return it to them within the first [...]

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What All Reunion 9 for Mac Users Must Know About Surname Prefix Sorting

Surely somewhere in your genealogy there’s at least one ancestor with a surname prefix. You know, those names that start with “Mc,” “von,” and so on? If you do, you need to know that Reunion has special rules for sorting names with these prefixes. If you don’t set it to sort the way you want, [...]

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