From the monthly archives:

January 2009

Mailing Addresses in Reunion 9

Reunion 9 can store contact information for people in your family files. Mailing addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and web addresses can be stored for individuals and families. Contact lists can be generated and the information can be included in reports such as a family group sheet. You can even copy the information into and [...]

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Here’s a Way to Quickly Enter Data About Children in Reunion 9

When you have genealogy data about children to enter into your family file you can accomplish the task fastest by using the batch entry and editing window of Reunion 9. Name, gender, status, birth, and death information can all be edited in a tabular form on one window, which is much faster than editing each [...]

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How Reunion 9 Users Can Find More Relatives Faster

How You Can Find More Relatives Faster
If you don’t have enough time for your genealogy research and would like to have more, Volume 2 of the MacGenealogist.com Screencast CD may be the best solution for you. You see, genealogy research is subject to Parkinson’s law: “Work expands so as to fill the time available for [...]

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MacFamilyTree Updated to 5.3.8

Synium Software have released an update to their Macintosh genealogy application MacFamilyTree. This takes the version from 5.3.7 to 5.3.8. According to the Software Update window the changes are:

Date picker for date text fields
Date format parsing improved
Fixes for the Virtual Tree
Search Pane can be opened with Command-F
Database Maintenance fixes
Other minor fixes

Here’s a video screencast: Date [...]

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How I Find and Correct Duplicate Place-Names

You may be surprised by the number of different ways you’ve entered the same place-name in your Reunion 9 family file. This is especially true if you don’t routinely check for and correct duplicate place-names. I recommend putting this on your calendar to do periodically just like checking for “unlinked people.”
In this video I show [...]

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Extra Commas in Place-Names

Many MacGenealogists noticed my use of “extra” commas in place-names while viewing the Speed Names screencast. A number of viewers were so curious that they asked why I include them. I chose to write the answer as an article so that those who were not bold (or curious) enough to ask could also be informed.
As [...]

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