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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; they [...]

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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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Using Mac Finder Aliases for Genealogy Files, Part 5, Finding Aliases and Originals

Fellow MacGenealogist, Susan asked a question in a comment on the August 14, 2008 article, Using Mac Finder Aliases for Genealogy Files, Part 4, Place-Name Changes Through History. She wrote:
Is there a way to see a list of all the alias files/folders from the original? I am researching families that have migrated in groups [...]

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The Quickest Way to Move from One Person to Another in Reunion 9

There is a little known way to move from one research subject to another in Reunion 9. It takes only one mouse click and it doesn’t involve the index. Do you know what it is?
It’s called the Quickbar. Once configured, it is a strip of buttons above the family card. It works much like favorites [...]

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