When copying or moving your genealogy data from Reunion for Mac to another genealogy software program you’ll want to be sure not to lose any precious information. It’s very likely that you’ll have errors when you import a GEDCOM file regardless of the source and destination software. It’s not always a reflection of the quality of the genealogy software; it’s often due to the limitations of the GEDCOM standard. Either way, I’ve got a technique for finding and correcting the problems you’ll encounter.
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Detecting Conflicting Evidence with Date Expressions in Reunion for Mac
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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Recording Source Detail in Reunion for Mac
Adding sources is important and tedious. Genealogy database software Reunion for Mac prevents some of the tedium by allowing you to associate individual sources with multiple events and facts. To do this you’ll want to make sure the data you enter for the source is not specific to an individual. The information that is specific to the individual goes in a different place, called source detail. In this video I show you how to record different source details for census, birth, and marriage events that use the same source. [Read more…] about Recording Source Detail in Reunion for Mac
Marking Only One Branch of Your Family Tree Using Reunion for Mac
Sometimes during your genealogy research you want to create reports, charts, lists, or GEDCOM exports that include only a specific branch of your family. Reunion for Mac has a feature called mark groups that enables you to selectively mark people in your family file.
In this video I’ll walk you, step-by-step, through using this feature to mark ancestors of a specific person.
Do you have any tricks or favorite uses of marking groups? If so, please share by leaving a comment on this post.
Citing a Marriage Event in Reunion for Mac
The marriage event is different from the events for individuals and even “generic” event for the couple in the Macintosh genealogy software, Reunion. Even though it is accessed and stored differently, it’s just as important to cite sources of your event information. Like other sources in Reunion, marriage event sources can include multimedia. This makes it easy to include images of source records when you have them.
Adding a Marriage Event Citation in Reunion for Mac, I show you how to add a citation to a marriage event. I include adding an image of the source record. This part trips some people up because they (quite reasonably) expect it to be connected with the multimedia window, but it isn’t; multimedia for sources is separate.