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Genealogy Software Tutorials for Mac & PC

Ben Sayer

Server Troubles Behind Us?

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It has been a harrowing couple of days, but it appears that the server troubles at my (soon to be former) web host are over. They started moving all the accounts from the failed server to a new server last night. It took all morning and most of the day. Now it appears to be working.

Thank you for your patience, especially to those who were trying to check out MacGenealogist.com for the first time on Dick Eastman’s recommendation. And thanks to Dick for the nod of approval. I’ve been a fan of his for a while now, so it means a lot to me.

The distraction has me behind the schedule I had planned for the iFamily for Leopard review. I had planned to release it Friday. That may not happen now, although I’ll do my best.

Context Diagram

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The context diagram is a graphical depiction of some or all of the people in an iFamily for Leopard database. Each person is represented by a rectangle that contains information about them. The relationships between individuals is shown by lines and the nature of the relationship (e.g. natural, step, adopted, and foster) by a symbol on the line.

The number of displayed generations is variable and an increment of a time scale is shown at the top, above each generation.

General Source

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A general source in Leister Production’s Reunion, is a source that applies to all information recorded about a person. General source citations do not apply to families or family events. It is ideally used when only one source of information about a person is available. They are visually distinguished from “normal sources” by color and sometimes location.

This video from the MacGenealogist Archives demonstrates creating a general source and points out the differences in appearance and locations.

How To Merge Data from One iFamily for Leopard Database to Another

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iFamily for Leopard does a nice job of merging genealogy data from one database into another, but there are many steps and some pitfalls to avoid. This video walks you through the individual steps of the three stages:

  1. prep
  2. merging
  3. clean up

There are potential gotchas if the prep and clean up are skipped as well as one other thing I didn’t go into in the video.
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Ghost Box

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A ghost box is an area of the context diagram in iFamily for Leopard. They are depicted by dotted grey lines as shown in the image to the right. They represent missing and additional parents, spouses, and children. They are one means by which content can be added to the database.
Clicking on a ghost box enables one to enter the name of the individual followed by a dialog box into which details can be added. Control-clicking a ghost box is a short-cut for attaching a person already already in the database and for copying a person from another, open database.