Monthly Archives: February 2006

Personal Ancestry Writer II v49 (23 Feb 2006)

Posted on February 23, 2006 by admin

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. Continue reading →

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Macworld looks at MacBook Pro, Migration Strategies

Posted on February 23, 2006 by admin

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. Continue reading →

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Family Ties (Familienbande) Feb 19, 2006

Posted on February 20, 2006 by admin

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. Continue reading →

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ohmiGene 0.91.2

Posted on February 19, 2006 by admin

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).” Continue reading →

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MacFamilyTree 4.2.7

Posted on February 14, 2006 by admin

MacFamilyTree 4.2.7 is available. This 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 Continue reading →

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