From the monthly archives:

October 2008

MacFamilyTree Updated to 5.3.2

Synium released an update to their genealogy database software MacFamilyTree today. According to their website the update includes:

Greatly improved performance in mostly all areas
Improved GEDCOM importer including a warning dialog showing errors and not parseable dates
Improved GEDCOM exporter which supports date reformatting
Date Handling improved to support more date formats
Improved handling of date prefixes when using [...]

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MacGenealogist Screencast Video CD Volume 1 Announcement

How would you like to be able to view MacGenealogist.com videos without having to open them from the Internet? Now you can! I just created the first volume of MacGenealogist.com screencast CDs. It will be available for you to order in about a week. This means you can take informative MacGenealogist.com screencasts with you wherever [...]

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Views in Reunion 9: Creating Custom Views

This is the third part in a series of screencasts on the view features and functions in the Mac genealogy database software, Reunion 9. In previous articles and videos, I covered switching views and altering views. The powerful capability to remake the view section of the family card is demonstrated in the accompanying video. I [...]

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Views in Reunion 9: Altering Views

The view area in a Reunion 9 family card is very flexible. You can alter the contents of a view in many ways. Fields can be added or removed. Photos can be included or removed. In this screencast, I continue the series on Reunion 9 views by showing you how to alter the default view [...]

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How to Track Residences in Reunion 9

In a recent screencast about switching views, MacGenealogist Warren noticed that I had some residence data displaying in a field called “Reside.” He asked in a comment (I love that) if I would explain how to populate that field. Rather than explain, I recorded this video: How to Track Residences in Macintosh Genealogy Software Reunion [...]

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Date Format Secrets in Reunion 9

I love it when I get questions from my fellow MacGenealogists. It helps me to produce content that will be helpful. Chances are that if you have a question, others have the same question. Dwaine asked this question in a comment yesterday:
When I first started doing research into my family tree, I opened folder using [...]

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