Personal Ancestry Writer II v49 (23 Feb 2006)

Personal Ancestry Writer II (PAWriter II) version 49 was released today. Personal Ancestry Writer II is a MacOS/Mac OS X Genealogy Application designed to have many of the same features found in the original Personal Ancestral File (PAF) for Mac. This version adds navigation using the arrow keys in both the navigation and pedigree windows.

Changes:
* Added larger typeface for zoomed notes as a preference.
* In both the navigation window and the pedigree window (in addition to typing F, M, P and B), added up-arrow for father, down-arrow for mother, right-arrow for partner and left-arrow for back.
* Corrected the generation number in the pedigree window when using these keyboard actions. As a result, it was necessary to change next/previous/first/last person in the navigation window to use command-right/left/up/down arrow.
* Updated Reference Guide to reflect above changes.

Macworld looks at MacBook Pro, Migration Strategies

Macworld has a “First Look” at the new MacBook Pros, that some maybe interested in looking, if you are interested in the first of Apple’s Intel-based notebook offerings.

They have some good benchmarks in relation to apps on PowerPC vs Intel, including Photoshop. Considering that a lot of non-multimedia software that genealogists use don’t necessarily rely on a speedy processor, they had good news as well, to quote Jason Snell from the article, Several of my bread-and-butter applications, most notably Eudora and Microsoft Office, aren’t currently available in versions that run natively on Intel processors. But I honestly haven’t perceived any slowness in those applications.

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Family Ties (Familienbande) Feb 19, 2006

A new version of Family Ties/Familienbande is now available – this marks the February 19, 2006, release. It’s a free Mac OS X (and possibly MacOS 8.6/9 with Carbon) genealogy application from Stefan Mettenbrink. It’s currently only available in German, however it is useable by non-German speaking genealogists. We’ve provided a page with a list of translated features here. This release consists of mostly bug fixes.

Note: The changes listed below were translated using Google, and they may not be 100% accurate. If you can provide an accurate translation, please contact us. All errors below are the result of our translation.

Changes:
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ohmiGene 0.91.2

ohmiGene 0.91.2 is available. ohmiGene is “software for the creation and the management of genealogical data … which works on MacOS X and Windows, even Linux. A database created on Mac works on PC (Windows or Linux), and vice versa. The structure of the database was defined to be in maximal agreement with the GEDCOM format: if any context concerning the submission of a file to the church LDS is absent, almost totality of the other contexts are correctly handled (import, manipulation and export…) : OhmiGene is a software which respects a GEDCOM file at import (and export).”

Note: The previous version is 0.90, covered here, and so it went from 0.90 -> 0.91.2 .

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Changes:
* Compiled with a new version of REALbasic (author asks that you report any bugs you come across)
* Dynamic Four generation tree of the active person can be displayed/printed and/or used for navigation
* Working Lists – print, export to text file or GEDCOM
* Modify personal references, criteria of publication, marks, and sources for all individuals in the database.

MacFamilyTree 4.2.7

MacFamilyTree 4.2.7 is available. This Mac OS X genealogy application is a full Universal Binary – it will run on both Intel and PowerPC computers running Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher (Mac OS X 10.4.4 for Intel-based computers).

Updates
* New comprehensive statistics function for the evaluation of the following data: age, birth, death, marriage, number of children
* Elimination of minor problems and errors

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