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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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Parallels Desktop 4.0 Build 3844 Released

Parallels released a bugfix build for their Paralells Desktop 4.0 product.

Bugfixes and improvements in Parallels Desktop 4.0 Update (build 4.0.3844)
Improvements:

Improved 3D graphics in Windows virtual machines.
Problems with Palm synchronization in Windows virtual machines — fixed.
Random disconnection of USB 1.1 devices in Linux virtual machines — fixed.
Invisibility of the text mouse pointer [...]

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MacFamilyTree 5.5 Available as a Public Beta

Synium Software announced the availability of version 5.5 of their Macintosh genealogy software, MacFamilyTree. Their press release notes that this is a public beta test release. Some of the new features may be worth checking out, or you can wait for my video walk-through. If do you download it, be careful with your precious data [...]

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Keeping a Genealogy Task List, Part 2: TaskPaper

The first Mac task list software I have for your consideration is TaskPaper from Hog Bay Software. It is simultaneously a simple and powerful task manager. It meets both of the criteria I outlined in the first part of this series of articles, Keeping a Genealogy Task List, Part 1:

Unobtrusive storage
Simple, powerful retrieval

The developer has [...]

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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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RootsMagic 4 Enters Public Beta Phase

For those of you using this fine PC genealogy software on your Mac, I bring you good news. The “community preview” phase that I have been covering on our sister site, PCGenealogist.com, has ended. While that in itself is good news, even better is that the public beta phase has begun. If you’d like to [...]

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