Use Spotlight as a Database

macosxhints has an article about using Spotlight as a Database:

….since Spotlight will index the contents of files on your hard drive, we can leverage this in a brute-force kluge to get some information on our interesting documents….

Could be very useful if you take what they are discussing and apply it to your genealogy documents.

PAWriter II version 45 (17 Oct)

PAWriter II version 45 was updated yesterday, as well as the Reference Guide Folder. I’m not sure what was updated at this time.

Family Ties (Familienbande) – Information

There are now nine known active genealogy applications for the Mac platform (that we know of):

Family Ties (Familienbande), a free genealogy application from Stefan Mettenbrink for Mac OS X (and probably MacOS 8.6+ and MacOS 9.x+ with Carbon) and Windows. This was updated in August. Right now it’s only in German. I’ve tried to provide English translations on the MacGenealogy.org page for this application, as well as the screenshot gallery (you can access it by clicking on the image at the bottom of this post). The official site is: www.familienbande-genealogie.de and the download is here: www.familienbande-genealogie.de/download.htm

Features:

- Available for both Mac OS X (Carbon) and Windows (there maybe problems with Windows 98)
— Linux version maybe available in the future
- Can be run off of a CDROM or USB Flash Memory Key without installation
- Handles up to 2,000,000,000 data records
- GEDCOM 5.5 import/export
- Uses the Kekulé system of numbers, with a maximum of 31 generations
- Different descendant numbers
- FOKO Export (Research Contact Data/Information – for more information, read the FOKO FAQ)
- You can assign as many documents to a person or family tree as you want.
- Multi-coloured indicators
- Detailed Source Information
- Different Statistics and Family Tree Representations
- Flexible Printing of data with labels
- Extensive family, address, locale, and document administration
- Plausibility Check
- Handles double marriage ceremony (i.e. a couple could have both a civil and church marriage)
- Master owner can be changed
- Extensive search capabilities
- References within pictures to individuals
- Flexible exporting
- Flexible organization and automatic generation of website/HTML export
- Various secondary functions – calendar, date computations, etc.

Screenshots:
family-ties

New iMac, iPod with video

Apple has released some new products today, one being a heavily updated iMac G5, the other a new iPod capable of playing videos (including a video-out feature to play on your TV).

Now you can take your home movies with you to your next family gathering. No more slide trays, no more VCRs (or DVD players). Just fin da TV with video input, plug in the cables, and go.

Reunion Source Usage Report -> FileMaker, Text

Tom Robinson released two AppleScript applications last month that deal with Reunion’s Source Usage Report, and converting it into either a text file that can be read into other applications, or importing it into a FileMaker databse.

This AppleScript populates a FileMaker database with Reunion’s Source Usage Report.

This AppleScript converts the report to tab delimited text file (for import into a spreadsheet).

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