Genealogy Software Tutorials for Mac & PC
Sometimes zooming in on an image in your media library just isn’t enough. This need is addressed in Family Tree Maker 2014.
It includes a little gem called the magnifier tool. You’ll find it in the media detail views of the source and media workspaces.
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This week I had been contributing to a thread on the ReunionTalk forum about the wish to be able to link multimedia to events and citations. Some of my posts are disappearing shortly after I enter them!
In response to a specific question I provided details about how Reunion’s citation feature is limited in comparison to what the GEDCOM standard and other leading genealogy software support. I also pointed out that due to Reunion not supporting multimedia and quality assessments linked to citations, that data is discarded without warning, when one imports a GEDCOM.
After posting in the thread I viewed my post in context so I know it was there. A couple hours later I went back to see if there was a response and found my post had mysteriously disappeared! [Read more…] about Censorship on ReunionTalk Forum?
I noticed in the ReunionTalk Forum today that there’s been some discussion about this subject and thought I’d publish a video to clear things up.
If you’ve got the new Pages app on your Mac and tried to open a Reunion 10 report with it you’ve seen an error like this:
This happens because Apple didn’t include support for opening rich text format (RTF) files in the new version of Pages and Reunion creates RTF files.
I published a video today showing how Family Tree Maker 2014 displays PDF media and how to get it to change the thumbnail of existing PDF media files to a small image of the first page of the document.
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At some point you may want to change the home family in Reunion 10. This is the family card that appears when you open the family file. It’s also linked to the home button in the bottom bar making it quick and easy to return to the family from anywhere in your tree.
It this video I show you the different ways you can change the home family.