Are you a Reunion 9 user? If so, here’s a little tip for you: Reunion 9 has an appearance preference setting that will change the order of names on family cards (including the web family cards) and cascading pedigree chart to last name first. [Read more…] about Last Name First in Reunion 9
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How to Simplify Navigating Direct Lines of Descent in Reunion 9
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
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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How to Consistently Locate Multimedia Files with Style
There’s a new way to locate media files on your Mac. Karelia Software just released iMediaBrowser. This little application lets you access your image, movie, and audio files the same way, regardless of the application with which you want to use them. For example, you can insert images of evidence into source citations using iMediaBrowser instead of the file chooser within your genealogy database application.
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How To Clean Up "Unlinked People" in Reunion 9
Over time, no matter how careful you have been, you’ll end up with relatives in your genealogy database that are not connected to any other person. This is called an unlinked person in Reunion 9. You ought to periodically check for this situation. Fortunately, the software provides a way to identify them and then deal with them. Unfortunately, it isn’t as intuitive as it could be.
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