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Preservation Methods

Ancestry.com “Tree To Go” iPhone App

I’ve checked out the iPhone (and iPod touch) app recently released by Ancestry.com. The free app is called Tree To Go. It enables you to examine and update the trees you have on Ancestry.com through your iPhone—no, you can’t search the databases at Ancestry.com through the app. A synchronization feature keeps the data in your [...]

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Adding Coordinates to Multiple Events in MacFamilyTree

Genealogists using the software MacFamilyTree have the ability to add geographic coordinates, expressed as latitude and longitude, for places in their family database. This is a process known as geocoding. The information can be added on an place-by-place basis by entering it in the edit place windows. If you have many places that are not [...]

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The Program that is Preventing Genealogy Research from Being Lost and Forgotten

One of the common problems MacGenealogists shared with me in my recent “One Problem Survey” is the fear of your genealogical materials being lost or forgotten after you pass on or can’t manage it yourself any more. This concern coincides with a recent story. I know a genealogist that passed away on January 1st, 2007. [...]

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Handling People with Multiple Names in the MacGenealogist File System

People change names for many reasons. What’s surprising, at least when new to genealogical research, is that it’s relatively common for a person’s name to change during their lifetime. Since it’s common and adds complexity to our practice, I devised a solution with respect to storing computer files. There are three predominant problems that it [...]

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Citing a Marriage Event in Reunion for Mac

The marriage event is different from the events for individuals and even “generic” event for the couple in the Macintosh genealogy software, Reunion. Even though it is accessed and stored differently, it’s just as important to cite sources of your event information. Like other sources in Reunion, marriage event sources can include multimedia. This makes [...]

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The Secret to Entering Census Events in Reunion 9 for Mac

Entering census events into Reunion 9 for Mac can be time consuming and error prone if you don’t use the copy and paste feature. Census events often apply to multiple people in our genealogy databases. Fortunately, events and their associated source citations can be copied an pasted to other records within Reunion. This method of [...]

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