Reunion for Mac

Reunion for Mac is one of the best of the genealogy programs for Mac. While its looks are dated, it is rock solid and capable.

There are versions of Reunion for the iPhone/iPod touch and iPad. So you can take your genealogy reseach with you.

Source Citation Find and Replace in Reunion for Mac

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Finding and replacing text in your family file is irregularly needed, but can save you time when you can use it. Turning over this tedious task to Reunion makes more family history research time available to you. That is, provided you carefully define your search criteria and backup your Reunion family file first! Reunion has [...]

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How to Tab Backward Between Fields in Reunion for Mac

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Sometimes you tab beyond the field you were after, right? Do you know how to go back without your hands leaving the keyboard? If so, great! No need to read this quick tip. You can easily tab backward by holding down the shift key then pressing the tab key. It’s that simple–shift-tab. It should work [...]

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How to Backup A Reunion Family File

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Are you regularly backing up your Reunion family files? Making a backup is important for more than protecting your precious research in the event of hard drive failures and catastrophes. Be sure to make a copy of your family file before making significant changes to your family file. Reunion for Mac’s creator, Leister Productions, even [...]

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Reunion 9 for Mac Perspective Events Updated

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Today I updated the North American Perspective Events file that I’ve previously modified and shared with you. This brings the Reunion 9 for Mac perspective event set up-to-date with historical events affecting the region since 1968. Specifically, I added these events: 1973 Arab Oil Embargo 1989 Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement 1994 North American Free [...]

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Preserving Muster Events in Reunion for Mac

U.S.S. Antietam Mug with Sayer Surname

Just in time for memorial day, Ancestry.com has made available new military records. The two new databases, “U.S. World War II Navy Muster Rolls, 1938-1949″ and “U.S. Navy Cruise Books Index, 1918-2009″ offer a glimpse into the lives of our military ancestors. If you have ancestors in these online genealogy databases you will want to [...]

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Creating a Database Online Source Type in Reunion for Mac

The amount of genealogy information available online is increasing. So is the importance of a good, basic citation format for online genealogy databases. As usual, I’ve been implementing GEDCOM safe versions of the citation formats genealogy expert Elizabeth Shown Mills recommends. The source type for databases online is based on one of her basic formats. [...]

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Making Your Reunion for Mac Census Image Source Type GEDCOM Safe

The census image online source type we created previously for genealogy software Reunion for Mac closely follows the recommendations of genealogy expert Elizabeth Shown Mills from her book, “Evidence Explained:Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace 2nd Edition” and her very handy, laminated Quicksheet for Citing Online Historical Resources Unfortunately many of the fields won’t [...]

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Safely Move from Free-form Citations to Source Fields in Reunion

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As you saw in a previous video about the dangers of free-form citations, genealogy software Reunion for Mac allows you to create source citations by entering source information into a free-form text field, but there are pitfalls to entering citations this way. The free-form citation field in Reunion for Mac is exported with a GEDCOM [...]

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The Dangers of Reunion Free-form Citations

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Reunion for Mac allows you to create source citations by either entering discrete source information into structured fields, entering all of it in a free-form text field, or a combination of both. Entering a citation in just the format you want using the freeform edit box can be an appealing idea; however, you ought to [...]

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Creating a Source Type for Directories in Reunion for Mac

In a previous video we created a source type for books in Reunion for Mac and improved it here. We are using the format genealogy expert Elizabeth Shown Mills recommends in her book, “Evidence Explained:Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace 2nd Edition”. The source type for directories is based on the basic format for [...]

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