Genealogy Software Tutorials for Mac & PC
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:
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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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.
The previous article described an approach to finding “unconnected people” in iFamily for Leopard. Keith Wilson, the creator of iFamily, commented on that article. He pointed out that there is a more direct way of getting a list of unconnected people. His directions were:
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Over time, no matter how careful you have been, you’ll end up with relatives in your genealogy database that are not connected to any other person. These are called unconnected people in iFamily for Leopard. Fortunately, the software provides a way to identify them and then deal with them. Unfortunately, it isn’t as simple as it could be. I’d like to see People without Connections added to the People menu.
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