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The Quickest Way to Move from One Person to Another in Reunion 9

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There is a little known way to move from one research subject to another in Reunion for Mac 9. It takes only one mouse click and it doesn’t involve the index. Do you know what it is?

It’s called the Quickbar. Once configured, it is a strip of buttons above the family card. It works much like favorites in your web browser, except instead of websites it contains links to people or families in your family file. The quickbar will hold as many as 50 people and or families. This video from the MacGenealogist Archives will show you:

  • what and where the quickbar is
  • how to add and remove people and families
  • how to edit the quickbar contents
  • how to change the appearance of the quickbar

Open Reunion 9 and follow along with this screencast. In no time you’ll be moving more efficiently through your genealogy data.

Automatic Source

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Do you use this time saving feature when entering multiple people from one source into your Reunion 9 family file? The automatic source feature enables you to enter a mode wherein all new people created are automatically cited with a general source. The source need be selected only once. When all the people have been created, the automatic source feature should be toggled off.

This video from the MacGenealogist Archives will take you step-by-step through the process.

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.

General Source

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A general source in Leister Production’s Reunion, is a source that applies to all information recorded about a person. General source citations do not apply to families or family events. It is ideally used when only one source of information about a person is available. They are visually distinguished from “normal sources” by color and sometimes location.

This video from the MacGenealogist Archives demonstrates creating a general source and points out the differences in appearance and locations.

How To Merge Data from One iFamily for Leopard Database to Another

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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:

  1. prep
  2. merging
  3. clean up

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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