Ben Sayer

An audio version of my recent review of genealogy software, MacFamilyTree is featured in the Genealogy Gems Podcast episode released today. It’s episode 54 in the free podcast. It can be downloaded to your iPod or played directly on the GenealogyGems.TV website.

The hostess, Lisa Louise Cooke, is also starting a new family history podcast. It’s called Family History: Genealogy Made Easy. Lisa talks about the new podcast and its focus in Genealogy Gems episode 54.

Also in this episode:

• Interview with Colleen Fitzgerald, The Forensic Genealogist
• Profile America – Cash Register History
• MacGenealogist
• Quilting Family Traditions
• Linguistic Bit by James Mowatt
• Name That Tune

I’ve already subscribed to Lisa’s new podcast via iTunes. I’m sure it will be great!

Synium released an update to their genealogy database software MacFamilyTree today. According to their website the update includes:

• Greatly improved performance in mostly all areas
• Improved GEDCOM importer including a warning dialog showing errors and not parseable dates
• Improved GEDCOM exporter which supports date reformatting
• Date Handling improved to support more date formats
• Improved handling of date prefixes when using the date reformatting feature
• Person and Family lists show entries with missing coordinates for events
• More customizable user interface colors in the preferences
• Many more bugfixes and minor enhancements

I re-checked all the problems I noted in my recent review of MacFamilyTree 5.3 Beta. None of them are fixed.

How would you like to be able to view MacGenealogist.com videos without having to open them from the Internet? Now you can! I just created the first volume of MacGenealogist.com screencast CDs. It will be available for you to order in about a week. This means you can take informative MacGenealogist.com screencasts with you wherever you go and view them even when you aren’t connected to the ‘net. If your  connection is anything less than zippy, you’re going to love having these videos on CD.

There are 36 genealogy screencasts on this CD. That’s over 250 minutes of how-to video! One of these is an exclusive, bonus video. It will not be published to MacGenealogist.com. The only way to get this bonus screencast is to buy CD volume 1. By the way, I chose a subject that did not depend on which family history database application you use. The bonus screencast alone is worth the price of the CD!

I’m offering this CD  for only $14.99 USD. That’s less than 42¢ per video!

Need more details? Okay, how about this list of the 36 instructional videos included on this CD:

1. Creating a Genealogy Folder System on Your Mac, Part 1, My Family History Folder
2. Creating a Genealogy Folder System on Your Mac, Part 2, Places
3. Creating a Genealogy Folder System on Your Mac, Part 3, People
4. Using Mac Finder Aliases for Genealogy Files, Part 1, People with Multiple Names
5. Using Mac Finder Aliases for Genealogy Files, Part 2, Multiple People
6. Using Mac Finder Aliases for Genealogy Files, Part 3, People and Places
7. Using Mac Finder Aliases for Genealogy Files, Part 4, Placenames Through History
8. Using Mac Finder Aliases for Genealogy Files, Part 5, Finding Alias Files and Folders
9. Customizing Folder Icons
10. How To Cite Misspelled Names-Reunion 9
11. How To Clean Up Unlinked People in Reunion 9
12. How To Clean Up Unconnected People in iFamily for Leopard
13. Get More From Ancestry.com
14. A Better Way to Identify Unconnected People in iFamily for Leopard
15. A Better Multimedia Browser
16. Secrets to Restoring Family Photos with iPhoto
17. Dealing with Bachelors and Spinsters in Reunion 9
18. How to Simplify Navigating Direct Lines of Descent in Reunion 9
19. Last Name First in Reunion 9
20. How to Merge Data from One iFamily for Leopard Database to Another
21. General Sources-Reunion 9
22. Automatic Sources-Reunion 9
23. Quickbar in Reunion 9
24. Child and Parent Lists on the Reunion 9 Family Card
25. Adding Perspective Event Sets to Reunion 9 Timelines
26. Adding Perspective (Event Sets) to Ages
27. Transcribing Scanned Images in iFamily for Leopard
28. Virtual Tree in MacFamilyTree
29. What’s New in iFamily for Leopard V2.463
30. Web Page Links in Reunion 9 Text and Note Fields
31. Substitute Events in Reunion 9
32. Short Dates in Reunion 9 Charts
33. How to Quickly, Accurately Enter Text in any Genealogy Software
34. Date Formats in Reunion 9
35. Populating the Reside Field in Reunion 9
36. CD BONUS (It’s a surprise!)

Wow! I don’t know what else to tell you except, buy some for friends! Click on the advertisement in the sidebar to order yours.