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The Secret to Being Comfortable Using Imported Data in Reunion for Mac

One of the problems with importing data into a new family file in Reunion for Macintosh is that the customizations you’ve made to your family file aren’t present. Did you notice that or did it just feel weird, but you didn’t know why? Well, there’s a simple solution. With Reunion you can create a copy [...]

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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 [...]

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What All Reunion 9 Users Must Know About Surname Prefix Sorting

Surely somewhere in your genealogy there’s at least one ancestor with a surname prefix. You know, those names that start with “Mc,” “von,” and so on? If you do, you need to know that Reunion has special rules for sorting names with these prefixes. If you don’t set it to sort the way you want, [...]

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New Event Date Range Feature in MacFamilyTree’s Virtual Globe View

The recent MacFamilyTree 5.3.6 release contained a new feature in the virtual globe view. The release notes described it as “Virtual Globe marks events out of date range.” I found that it excludes events outside a date range. So it actually marks events within a date range. I also found an anomaly in it’s behavior, [...]

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Date Feasibility Checking in Reunion 9

Reunion 9 includes a feature that helps you eliminate mistakes in genealogy event dates. It’s called date feasibility checking and it has two modes: interactive and report. Interactive date feasibility rules are evaluated whenever a birth, marriage, or death event is changed. The whole set of rules is evaluated when a date feasibility report is [...]

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Determining the Day of the Week for Events in iFamily for Leopard

Knowing what day of the week an event occurred on can be informative and fun. iFamily for Leopard includes a feature which makes this information quick and easy to obtain. Take a look at this video: Determining the Day of the Week for Events in Mac Genealogy Software iFamily for Leopard. In it I show [...]

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