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Secrets to Importing Reunion Data Into Family Tree Maker 2010

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Whether you’re emigrating from Reunion for Mac to Family Tree Maker for Mac or establishing dual residency, you’ll want to get the best possible import of your family file. This video will show you how setup a GEDCOM export to get your multimedia and person data imported and where source information from Reunion appears in Family Tree Maker. Here are the secrets covered in this video:

  • Setting up the export in Reunion for Mac (multimedia links, optional fields, and event memos)
  • Making Family Tree Maker for Mac actually find the multimedia files
  • Where multimedia for sources appear in Family Tree Maker for Mac
  • Keeping a list of import problems to correct later (especially the “facts” that won’t import)
  • What “[no source-citation information]” means
  • Where the free-form text you entered in Reunion for Mac can be found in Family Tree Maker for Mac
  • Why the “[Unlinked]” source group in Family Tree Maker for Mac is empty if you’ve got unlinked sources in Reunion for Mac

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Detecting Conflicting Evidence with Date Expressions in Reunion for Mac

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Occasionally, records you examine will contain dates that are written in relation to other dates. You can enter these in Reunion for Mac and let the software do the calculation for you.

I was extracting evidence from a death certificate this week and found conflicting birth information by using this feature. The document listed a birth date as well as age in years, months, and days. In this video I show you how I discovered the conflict and how I recorded it.
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Is Family Tree Maker for Mac Too Expensive?

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“Why is the Mac version of Family Tree more expensive than the Windows version?” I’ve read the question in the comments here and on Twitter. Here’s the scoop and thanks to GenealogyTools member Roger, the secret to a significant discount:

The Mac version price is higher because in bringing Family Tree Maker back to the Mac, Ancestry have had to pay to convert the program (a process called porting). They’ve got to pay for this expense and let’s face facts, Mac using genealogists are a tiny minority. That means the cost is spread across a much smaller group so the price will be higher.

We can complain, but it won’t do any good. We can refuse to buy it in protest, but that may simply lead to them leaving the market again. I think it’s better for us to have more competition. That’s why I welcome Family Tree Maker to the Mac.

On to the secret to a greater discount.
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