Genealogy Software Tutorials for Mac & PC
Tired of having to switch spouses after navigating to a family card for a relative with multiple spouses? Well, you’re in luck. The spouse you want displayed by default can be configured quite easily in genealogy software, Reunion for Mac.
In this video from the MacGenealogist Archives, Setting the Preferred Spouse in the Reunion for Macintosh Genealogy Software, I show you how it’s done.
In support of the Reunion for iPhone app release, Leister Productions, Inc. has released version 9.08 of Reunion for Macintosh. Rest assured, there is more than just the iPhone support in this update. Their update page lists the following fixes and changes:
- New Feature: Added support for the iPhone and iPod Touch version of Reunion.
- Register Report – fixed 2 problems with the privacy filter
- Fixed a rare crash when exporting Temple Ready files.
- Improved date sorting in lists and reports.
- Better support for RTF index codes in NeoOffice.
- Fixed problem with the Find Citation Detail function.
- Fixed a problem when importing family files containing new source types and new source fields.
- Improved the “Leister Home” web style to support longer names.
- Fixed a problem with Google Analytics.
- Fixed a rare problem with saving sources in facts fields.
- Marked Sets would not work for family files containing more than 262K people.
- Fixed a rare crash that would happen when opening saved found lists.
- Fixed a rare problem with duplicate files on Web Media pages.
- Fixed a problem with Web Media pages reporting links to missing media files.
- Updated the LDS Temples file.
- Updated the US Presidents perspective events.
Go get it!
Leister Pro released the Reunion for iPhone app. With it one can search, navigate, view, and edit genealogy data on the iPhone and iPod touch
I wasn’t given a review copy or informed of the release; I guess I’m not on Leister’s radar yet, but I’ll go get a copy so I can give you all the skinny. I’ll follow up with a review later.
No, this isn’t about telling your spouse what to do, or even obtaining a new partner via mail-order; it’s about how to change the order of spouses in the genealogy software, Reunion 9 for Mac.
Putting spouses in the correct order—ascending order of marriage—improves consistency of the spouse popup menu and prevents a problem in lists: when a record for a woman with multiple husbands is in a list that includes the married name field, and the married name fact is not populated, the most recent husband’s surname is used for the woman’s. Okay, that explanation is a great example of how trying to teach with the written word isn’t as effective as a demonstration. It’s actually quite simple when you see it.
Watch this video from the MacGenealogist Archives, How to Change the Order Spouses in the Reunion for Macintosh Genealogy Software, so you can change the order of spouses in Reunion 9 for Mac and clear up any confusion I may have caused by my description of the potential problem with lists.
P.S. Happy Valentine’s Day!
This update of the Macintosh genealogy application from Synium lists the following changes:
- Bug fixes for the timeline
- Stability improvements
- Localization fixes for English and Swedish
Short, but sweet and the regular updates, especially fixes are appreciated.
There’s nothing in this one that a video walkthrough can demonstrate so I won’t be producing one.