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 Customize Your Ancestry.com Home Page
If you’re an Ancestry.com subscriber like me, you may have noticed that The Generations Network, Inc. have improved your home page. You can now move the content of the page around to put things where you like. They also created a My Quick Links box in the right column. This enables you to add links to your favorite and commonly visited sites right on your Ancestry.com home page. Please follow along with this video from the MacGenealogist Archives to add Genealogytools.com to your quick links and to see the other configuration demonstrated.
A Better Way to Locate Unconnected People in iFamily for Leopard
The previous article described an approach to finding “unconnected people” in iFamily for Leopard. Keith Wilson, the creator of iFamily, commented on that article. He pointed out that there is a more direct way of getting a list of unconnected people. His directions were:
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