Mac loving genealogists can insert links in Reunion 9 text and notes fields and click on them to open web sites in a web browser. This means you can have URLs in text fields and notes as well as having arbitrary, hyper-linked text in note fields. If you too, would like to know how to create the links and or how to use them, open Reunion 9 and follow along with this video from the MacGenealogist Archives: Web Page Links in Macintosh Genealogy Software Reunion 9 for Mac Text and Note Fields.
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How to Add Perspective Events to an Ages List in Reunion 9
Reunion for Mac perspective events can help you connect with your ancestors by better understanding their life experiences. They can be used in the timeline chart and the ages list.
The ages list gives you a different view of history than the timeline chart. It’s primary purpose is to convey a person’s age at the time of each recorded event in his or her life. You can add other events individually or in sets. This video will take you step-by-step through adding perspective events to an ages list.
How to Add Perspective to Reunion for Mac Timelines
Reunion for Mac can generate timelines and enables you to easily add historical events to your charts. In Reunion for Mac, these are called perspective events.
Timeline charts are a great way to learn about your ancestors. They help you visualize people’s lives in the context of the other people whom you include. Choosing who to include in a timeline is easy. You can display a timeline for the couple displayed on a family card and their descendants, marked people, or your entire family file.
Including perspective events in your timelines enables you to see your ancestors set against a backdrop of historical events. This will help you connect with them and perhaps provide clues to their motivations and fate. For example, observing that a person died during the time of the 1918 flu pandemic could be a helpful clue if you haven’t determined their cause of death.
You can add individual events to your timelines or apply them in sets. You can download a set of perspective events from the Reunion website or create your own set of perspective events for reuse or sharing.1
In this video I’ll walk you through installing a free set of perspective events and applying one to a timeline chart.
Before starting the video please download the file, EventSet.zip, from the Leister Pro website so you can follow along.
- Covered in the video, Creating a Perspective Event Set for Reunion for Mac
How to See More Information About Children and Parents in Reunion 9
The family card in Reunion 9 can display children and parents as buttons or lists. The list mode displays more information about parents and children. The fields displayed can also be configured. For example, the birth and death places can be added to the view.
This video from the MacGenealogist Archives demonstrates the child and parent list mode and will walk you step-by-step through the preferences.
The Quickest Way to Move from One Person to Another in Reunion 9
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.