How many times have you found youself navigating down your direct line of descent and taking a wrong turn, only to have to backtrack? There is an easy to use feature in Reunion 9 that will eliminate these wrong turns. Even if you don’t miss the turns often or at all, you’ll find this will speed up your navigation.
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Want to Carry Your Family Tree in Your Pocket?
Now you can carry your genealogy data with you. With MobileFamilyTree, the new iPhone (and iPod touch) application just released by Synium, all your records are stored on your iPhone. You can edit them there and synchronize additions and changes back to your Mac. Although, not all of the MacFamilyTree fields are editable and one cannot create a new family database on the iPhone. It will handle multiple databases, displays person and family views, and has some display customization options. And the person context view is just plain sexy! Yes, touching a person in this view will bring up the card for that person. There is some bad news though.
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How to Deal with Bachelors and Spinsters in Reunion 9
Bachelors and spinsters are trouble enough to family historians because they don’t add branches to the family tree. On second thought, maybe it’s better that some of them didn’t. In any case, they are also a burden due to the amount of research involved in proving that they never married. Once this is established it would be best to avoid spending more time researching this. Let me show you how.
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GEDCOM
GEDCOM is a file format developed to enable moving genealogy data between software and platforms (like Mac, Windows, and Linux), through processes called export and import.
Plenty of Fluids, Rest, and Genealogy
Doing family history research is a fine way to pass the time when one is sick. The sleuthing has the magical ability to fully absorb me, making time flow quickly and smoothly past. Under such conditions my symptoms are scarcely felt and the entire situation seems not so bad at all. It almost makes me want to be ill more often. Almost.