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Ghost Box

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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.

Reunion 9.07 Review

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The traditional, mature, feature rich, and pricey Macintosh genealogy application against which all others are measured.

Product Overview

Reunion 9 is the leading genealogy data management software for Macintosh. With it one can store, update, explore, and report on family history data. The data can consist of names, events, facts, sources, notes, and links to multimedia files (images, video, sound). Interacting with family data is modeled after a stack of cards called family cards, on which information regarding a family unit is presented. Family cards are linked to other family cards, making navigation feel natural. An extensive selection of charts and reports can be customized, viewed on-screen, and printed. Some charts can be printed as wall charts.

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How to Simplify Navigating Direct Lines of Descent in Reunion 9

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How many times have you found youself navigating down your direct line of descent and taking a wrong turn, only to have to backtrack? There is an easy to use feature in Reunion 9 that will eliminate these wrong turns. Even if you don’t miss the turns often or at all, you’ll find this will speed up your navigation.
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How to Deal with Bachelors and Spinsters in Reunion 9

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Bachelors and spinsters are trouble enough to family historians because they don’t add branches to the family tree. On second thought, maybe it’s better that some of them didn’t. In any case, they are also a burden due to the amount of research involved in proving that they never married. Once this is established it would be best to avoid spending more time researching this. Let me show you how.
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