Monthly Archives: March 2007

iScrapbook – Coming April 2007

Posted on March 8, 2007 by admin

Chronos has announced iScrapbook (official site here), a new Mac scrapbooking application that will be available in April of 2007 (and until then, there is a pre-order price of $29.99 vs $49.99 normal). It’s a Universal Binary, requiring Mac OS … Continue reading →

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Reunion 9.01

Posted on March 6, 2007 by admin

Last night, Reunion 9.01 was released, which contains mostly fixes for problems that popped up with the release of Reunion 9, which was released last week. Reunion 9 is the latest version of the Reunion genealogy program from Leister Productions. Some of these are specific to Mac OS X 10.3.9 users.

Changes/Updates: Continue reading →

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Reunion 9

Posted on March 3, 2007 by admin

Guess what? A year or two in the making, but Reunion 9 is here. That’s right. This is the first OS X native (Universal Binary – sorry Classic/Mac OS 8.x/9 users) of this popular Mac genealogy program. It requires Mac OS X 10.3.9, and there is so much new stuff that it’s going to take us a few days to sort through and check it out.

Note: “If you purchased Reunion 8 directly from Leister Productions or from an authorized dealer after November 15, 2006, you are eligible for a free upgrade to Reunion 9″ (See LeisterPro.com for more details).

Here’s a all-to brief rundown of the new and upgraded features: Continue reading →

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Personal Ancestry Writer II Version 67 (1 March 2007)

Posted on March 1, 2007 by admin

Personal Ancestry Writer II (PAWriter II) version 67 (Dated: 1 March 2007) was released yesterday.

It’s a free Mac genealogy application being developed by Howard Metcalfe. It’s been designed to have many of the same features found in the original Personal Ancestry File (PAG) application for MacOS (Classic). There are versions for both Mac OS X and Mac OS 9. This is a fairly major update to PAWriter II. Continue reading →

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Family Ties (Familienbande) – February 26, 2007

Posted on March 1, 2007 by admin

A few days ago (February 26, 2007), a new version of Family Ties/Familienbande was released. It’s a free Mac OS X (andMacOS 8.6/9 with Carbon) genealogy application from Stefan Mettenbrink. It is only available in German, but it can be used by non-German speaking genealogists. We’ve provided a page with a list of translated features here. There is apparently an Intel-specific version available if you contact the author (the normal version runs fine on either PowerPC or Intel-based Macs).
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