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Routine Photo Management Tasks in iFamily for Leopard

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The context diagram in iFamily for Leopard can display a photo above each person. This is a great way to harness the face recognition part of your brain to make finding people quicker as well as add flavor. Storing photos of relatives in iFamily for Leopard is also a great way to organize them. You can even annotate them by using the transcribe feature as demonstrated in a previous screencast.

In this screencast I show you how to use iFamily for Leopard to:

  • crop photos
  • correct a discolored black and white photo
  • select which photo appears in the context diagram for a given person

Please open iFamily for Leopard, play this video, Routine Photo Management in Mac Genealogy Software iFamily for Leopard, and follow along. After doing so you will have the knowledge and experience to move beyond just having photos. You’ll be ready to improve the quality of your family photos.

Determining the Day of the Week for Events in iFamily for Leopard

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Knowing what day of the week an event occurred on can be informative and fun. iFamily for Leopard includes a feature which makes this information quick and easy to obtain. Take a look at this video, Determining the Day of the Week for Events in Mac Genealogy Software iFamily for Leopard. In it I show you how to view event date information.

Walkthrough: iFamily for Leopard V2.463 Update

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The version of iFamily for Leopard released yesterday contained some very nice changes; some of them addressing issues I raised in the recent review of the Mac genealogy software. I recorded this video screencast in the (now in the MacGenealogist Archives), What’s New in Mac Genealogy Software iFamily for Leopard V2.463, wherein I walk through the changes in this release.

I think it will be more informative and fun to see the changes rather than just reading about them. Let me know what you think in a comment. Should I continue to make these update walk through videos?

How to Transcribe Scanned Images in iFamily for Leopard

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Would you like to be able to quickly locate interesting text within your scanned genealogy document images? I often find myself searching a scanned newspaper page image for text that I had previously thought interesting. iFamily for Leopard speeds up this process by allowing one to annotate a scanned image with a rectangular box. Further, it enables one to type in a transcription of the text. That text can then be linked to the box, making returning to it later, very quick.

In this video from the MacGenealogist Archives I walk you through adding an image to a person, transcribing a section of the image, and locating the transcribed section. There is a bonus tip contained in this screencast as well. Please play the video and follow along in your iFamily for Leopard database.

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.