MacFamilyTree 4.5

MacFamilyTree 4.5 has been released by OnlyMac Software.

MacFamilyTree is a Mac OS X genealogy application that important data from other Mac applicatoins, such as iPhoto, Google Earth, etc., when building your family tree.

This release adds a new report for birthdays, as well as adding time stamps to files exported to HTML, as well as a couple of bug fixes.

Changes:
* Added new report “Birthdays”, showing all persons with birthdays within the next 12 months and optional display limited to only living persons.
* HTML export improved by adding a time stamp, allowing a better identification of exported data.
* Fixed an issue regarding the search functionality, which could lead to a potential crash of the application.
* fixed some errors in the “Events” report.

iFamily for Tiger V2.235

iFamily for Tiger V2.235 was released today. iFamily for Tiger is a unique Mac OS X (10.4+) genealogy application in that it focuses on individuals rather than families.

Enhancements in V2.235 (since V2.217)
Context Diagram
• Indication of number of spouses.
• Option to display gender symbols.
• Option to display of picture for each person.
• Permits same gender unions.
• Improved sequencing of spouses and children.

People Index
• Added display of consanguinity.

Events pane
• Enhanced per user feedback.

Ancestors and Descendants Diagrams
• Multiple root paths highlighted.
• Option to display gender symbols.
• User can expand and contract branches.
• Added panel to find and highlight a person.
• Added additional colour options.

General
• Improved handling of Polish, Czech and Portuguese accented characters.

You can download the update here (iFamilyForTiger.com) and discuss it here (iFamily for Tiger discussions).

Review: Mac Heredis 10.2 (Macworld)

Jeffery Battersby has written another Mac genealogy review, this time of Mac Heredis 10.2 or X.2. Mac Heredis 10.2 is a commercial Mac OS X genealogy application that was released in late 2005, with a few updates since then.

He stresses GEDCOM importing and lack of LDS ordinances, quote:

Like almost every other genealogy program we’ve reviewed recently, Heredis is very limited in supporting LDS (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) ordinances, handling only baptism, confirmation, endowment, and parental links. It would be possible, though not optimal, to enter the missing LDS ordinances using one of the program’s customizable fields.

Heredis also can import data saved as GEDCOM files, a standard among genealogy programs, and easily handled my test file with well over 1,000 records. In addition, the program will find and merge duplicate entries in your database—a valuable, time-saving feature.

Full review at Macworld

Note: Their reviews are starting to show up in the offline Macworld Magazine!

Osk 4.7

Osk 4.7 is now available from Studlar. This is considered a major update to the Mac OS X genealogy program. Osk is $29, and this update is free for current users. It’s available in English, Icelandic, Russian, German, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian, and Italian.

One of the more interesting features of Osk is that it tracks illness, deaths, education, and jobs throughout your family tree (i.e. it’s easy to look up people who held a similar job or had a similar illness).

Changes:
* Big refactoring
* New bindings and functions
* Now even easier to use.

If you aren’t familiar with the term “refactoring”, it’s basically when an application is changed to improve its readability/user interface, or to simplify things, without changing its data or the resulting output/results.

Macworld Reviews iFamily for Tiger 2.2

Macworld has published a review today of iFamily for Tiger 2.2. Once again it’s Jeffery Battersby, who has reviewed several other Mac genealogy applications as well.

It’s $30 and available at iFamilyforTiger.com

He gave it 3.5 out of 5 mice, saying:

iFamily for Tiger 2.2 provides a simple interface to create and edit your family data, includes great search tools, and integrates well with iPhoto

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