Monthly Archives: November 2005

Mellel 2.0 and Mellel Spotlight Plugin

Mellel 2.0, the word processor from RedleX, has been released. Mellel is one of the leading word processors for Mac OS X, with a special focus on scholars, writers, technical writing and multilingual word processing. A lot of genealogists use it because of the above advertised features -if you’re writing formal genealogy documents/books, the formatting, footnote/endnote, citation, and layout features are a big plus. Version 2.0 is a major update, and requires Mac OS X 10.2.

The Mellel Spotlight Plugin is just that – a plugin for Mac OS X 10.4′s Spotlight, that makes Mellel documents searchable. Continue reading

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Online Family Trees – Be Alert

There is a story up on the Deseret News about software that could allow people to generate websites with “fictional” family trees for advertising purposes. Hopefully most people don’t automatically accept what they see on the internet as being fact. Continue reading

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November 11, 2005 Roundup

This is a roundup of several utilities that have been updated over the past few days, that genealogists might be interested in Continue reading

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Personal Ancestry Writer II Version 47 (8 Nov 2005)

Personal Ancestry Writer II version 47 was released today.
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Personal Ancestry Writer II (PAWriter II) – Screenshots

I’ve posted a fairly extensive gallery of Personal Ancestry Writer II (PAWriter II) screenshots, showing the interface/layout of this genealogy application. It’s a very full-featured genealogy application. Continue reading

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