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Comparison of Mac Genealogy Software Features

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Comparing features helps when you’re choosing a new genealogy application. Seeing which ones support the features essential to your genealogy workflow and practice is also helpful.

I just compiled a set of tables I hope you’ll find helpful in comparing features of Mac genealogy software. I published it on the Family Tree Maker for Mac 2 buyer’s guide page.

I was able to complete this much more quickly than the one for PC genealogy software feature comparison because I had already been maintaining similar tables. I updated the tables where appropriate and made the criteria match those for PC genealogy applications. This way you can compare features not only between Mac genealogy software, but also PC counterparts–it’s a sad tale across the board.

Adding Coordinates to Multiple Events in MacFamilyTree

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Genealogists using the software MacFamilyTree have the ability to add geographic coordinates, expressed as latitude and longitude, for places in their family database. This is a process known as geocoding. The information can be added on an place-by-place basis by entering it in the edit place windows. If you have many places that are not geocoded it can be a pain to locate and add them individually. Fortunately, Synium included a feature that locates place records that are not geocoded and presents them in a list, where you can geocode them one after another.
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Search Feature in MacFamilyTree 5.5

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The last of the new features I want to show you in the recent MacFamilyTree release isn’t exactly a new feature. Synium re-wrote the search function for this version. In this video, Search in Macintosh Genealogy Software MacFamilyTree, I show you each of the four search screens (all, persons, families, and sources). I also point out a couple of gotchas to be aware of; don’t be fooled by the “all” search!

World History in MacFamilyTree

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The new beta version of MacFamilyTree included for the first time, a feature that displays events in world history. This can help you understand the lives and events of your ancestors in the context of the world around them. In this video, World History in Mac Genealogy Software MacFamilyTree, I demonstrate how to how to add your own custom events and how to use the feature when editing an event, displaying a timeline, creating a person chart, and exporting genealogy data to a website.