Online Genealogy Sites & The Mac

Something that was being discussed in the ReunionTalk daily digest, and on other forums…Various online genealogy sites are not always Mac friendly, and each have their pluses and minuses. These sites are becoming more and more prominent in genealogy research (you could argue they have become the starting point for … Read more

Book: Ancestry’s Red Book: American State, County & ….

Ancestry’s Red Book: American State, County & Town Sources, Third Edition by Alice Eichholz has started shipping. 900 pages, over 15 years in print. This edition (the Third) has been revised/expanded to include online genealogy sources. Think of this as combination Yellow Pages/Almanac, for contacts/addresses for librarys, archives, county courthouses, … Read more

Software/Update: Books for MacOS X 2.0.9rc12

Books for MacOS X is an open-source personal library management tool for MacOS X. It could be of use to genealogists that have a large collection of books. Official Site Screenshots/Tour

Software/Release: Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0

Adobe announced that Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 has been releasted today. Amazon is carrying Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0. From the reviews and previews, this sounds like it’s well worth it. They’ve added enough that it will probably do 95% of what most of us need it for. First Look at … Read more

Update: GPSPhotoLinker 1.0.3

GPSPhotoLinker has been updated to 1.0.3. GPSPhotoLinker can be used to save GPS position data to a photo. The latitude and longitude recorded by your GPS unit while you were taking photos can be linked, and saved, to the photos. Could be handy for some who are doing cemetery research, … Read more

Update: DayOfYearViewer 0.2.0

DayOfYearViewer has been updated to 0.2.0. DayOfYearViewer provides very simple services – presenting the day of year and date in a monthly format for all dates in the Gregorian calendar, with forward and backward buttons for months, years, and decades. Changes: Cosmetic, also made it easier to get back to … Read more