SeeGEDCOMX 0.8b4

Keith Clarke has updated SeeGEDCOMX to version 0.8b4. SeeGEDCOMX is a Mac genealogy program (requires MacOS 8.6 with CarbonLib or Mac OS X 10.1.5) with some unique features.

SeeGEDCOMX is a minimalist genealogy program for the Macintosh, started before MacOS X made minimalism fashionable. Originally a browser application for GEDCOM files, it has become a much more general application. You can now use it to create a family history from scratch, to maintain an existing family history stored as a GEDCOM document, or simply to browse your GEDCOM documents and downloads. And I believe it’s the only genealogy application with AppleScript support.

Major Changes: Expiration date moved out to June 2006, “Group By Change Date” feature to allow you to easily find where you were last working, To Do List improvements, and various bug fixes.

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Birthday Grapher 1.1

What’s the “Birthday Paradox”? From Wikipedia: The birthday paradox states that if there are 23 or more people in a room then there is a chance of more than 50% that at least two of them will have the same birthday. This means that in a typically-sized school class where the ‘paradox’ is often cited, an even higher probability often applies. For 60 or more people, the probability is already greater than 99%. This is not a paradox in the sense of leading to a logical contradiction; it is a paradox in the sense that it is a mathematical truth that contradicts common intuition. Most people estimate that the chance is much lower than 50%.

If you know of any children (or anybody in general) into math or birthdays, this might be an interesting way to introduce them to genealogy – have them estimate the probabilities of people in your family tree sharing a birthday, and then have them work through the tree to determine if it’s true or not. If they are not aware of the birthday paradox, they might be very surprised.

Family Ties (Familienbande) – Dec 5, 2005

A new version of Family Ties/Familienbande, came out on December 5 2005. Family Ties (Familienbande), is a free genealogy application from Stefan Mettenbrink for Mac OS X (and probably MacOS 8.6+ and MacOS 9.x+ with Carbon) and Windows. Right now it’s only available in German (but probably useable for many non-German speakers). We’ve provided a page with a list of translated features here.

Among the changes: GEDCOM exporting improved, some interface changes, various errors corrected, locations and addresses can be exported to CSV from the location and address managers. Also the number of phone/fax numbers, websites, and email addresses for each individual was increased.

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ohmiGene beta 0.90

There is a beta of ohmiGene, version 0.90, now available. The author strongly suggests that this is to be used only for beta testing, and not for actual genealogy research – I believe this is a complete rewrite (or portions of ohmiGene were rewritten). Among the new features – optimized GEDCOM importing, better duplicate handling, and better witness management. This version adds support for an unlimited number of sources and witnesses. OhmiGene will run under Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.

You can download the beta here.

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Heredis Mac X.2 – First Look, Part 1

I’ve put together a “First Look” at Heredis Mac X.2, covering some of its new features and improvements. It’s not a traditional review – I looked at the features individually, and it’s going to be in three parts (part two later this week, part three will be a look at the mobile genealogy aspects).

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