From the monthly archives:

September 2008

Another Use for Perspective Events in Reunion 9

Reunion 9’s perspective events can aid your understanding of the life experiences of your ancestors. They can be used in the timeline chart and the ages window. The ages window 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 [...]

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How I Add Perspective to Reunion 9 Timelines

Timeline charts are a great way to learn about your ancestors. They help you visualize how people’s lives overlapped. Reunion 9 also enables you to add “perspective events” to your chart. This can help you see what was occurring during your ancestor’s lives and perhaps provide clues to their demise. You can even create your [...]

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Perspective Events

Perspective events are a feature of the Mac genealogy database software, Reunion 9, from Leister Productions, Inc. They represent historical events that provide perspective when reading timeline charts. They consist of a textual description of the event and a date.
Sets of perspective events may be saved in a file for later reuse or sharing. An [...]

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What Every MacGenealogist Ought to Know About New FamilySearch

What Is New FamilySearch?
The LDS Church has developed a web application to enable people to contribute to and work with interconnected databases of genealogical information. The most significant features of this new system are:

multiple people can make assertions of facts
records can include source citations
temple ordinance features
a single, linked, pedigree
the ability to annotate records
mapping
synchronization with external [...]

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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 screencast demonstrates the child and parent list mode and will [...]

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Using Mac Finder Aliases for Genealogy Files, Part 5, Finding Aliases and Originals

Fellow MacGenealogist, Susan asked a question in a comment on the August 14, 2008 article, Using Mac Finder Aliases for Genealogy Files, Part 4, Place-Name Changes Through History. She wrote:
Is there a way to see a list of all the alias files/folders from the original? I am researching families that have migrated in groups [...]

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