From the monthly archives:

March 2009

Keeping Logs in Reunion for Mac

I touched on the practice of logging genealogical research efforts in my recent article, Documenting Unknown Dates. I kept that article mostly computer platform agnostic so it could be as universal as the topic is for genealogists. A side effect of that generality is that I got questions about how to keep a research log. [...]

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Documenting Unknown Dates

Genealogists and family historians often find themselves with unknown dates for events they have researched. How to capture this in a genealogical database is not immediately apparent to many of us. We think, “Perhaps I should enter ‘Unknown,’ or a question mark, or omit the date entirely.” After all that work, it seems like something [...]

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MacFamilyTree Updated to 5.4.2

An update bringing the Mac genealogy software, MacFamilyTree, to version 5.4.2 was just released. The following are the release notes from the software update dialog box:

Fixes in the Family Assistant (alignment improved, pictures now always show up)
Fixes in the Web Export
Several localization fixes
Minor Interface improvements
Performance of all 3D charts improved
General stability improvements

There’s nothing in there [...]

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Reunion for Macintosh Updated to 9.09

Leister Productions released version 9.09 of Reunion for Mac. This is a bug fix release as shown in the release notes:

Fixed a rare crash when sending a family file to the iPhone.
Fixed a problem that could cause incorrect or missing links after a crash or power failure. This problem was accidentally introduced in the 9.08 [...]

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Death Records Database at SeekingMichigan.org is Available Back Online

This morning I was able to connect to and use the Michigan Death Records, 1897-1920 database at seekingmichigan.org. Access was quick! Give it a try.
Alas, I found no hits for my ancestors. I’ll check again when more records are added.

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Want Free Access to WorldVitalRecords.com?

I’m excited about a new offer I can extend to MacGenealogists from WorldVitalRecords.com! It’s not even available from their site.
I have had a subscription for some time now and highly recommend it. If you haven’t tried them I recommend you do. And if you have tried them, but don’t have a subscription, you can still [...]

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