From the category archives:

Sharing Methods

Marking Only One Branch of Your Family Tree Using Reunion for Mac

I published this new Mac genealogy software tutorial video on GenealogyTools.com.

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Easy, Free Way to Share and Backup Genealogy Files

I just started using a service called Dropbox to store a remote backup of my genealogy database and share GEDCOM files with family members and other genealogists. Free accounts are limited to 2GB of storage. More space is available for a monthly fee. The drop-dead easy install creates a folder in your home folder (you [...]

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A Caution About Logs in Reunion

A recent discussion thread on the MacGenealogist group on GenealogyWise reminded me that I wanted to share a caution about the Logs feature in the Macintosh genealogy software, Reunion. I didn’t include this tidbit in the screencast I recently produced about Logs in Reunion for Mac. Don’t expect your log entries to export to GEDCOM; [...]

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Reunion for iPhone and iPod touch Updated to Version 1.0.1

iPhone and iPod touch genealogy app, Reunion update 1.0.1 became available in the iTunes App Store on April 27, 2009.

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Mailing Address List and Report in Reunion 9

How would you like to know how to create lists of contact information (mailing addresses, phone numbers, email addresses. etc.) for people in your Reunion 9 family file? Do you want to create mailing labels or do a mail merge from the same data? Well you can thanks to the mailing address list functionality in [...]

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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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