Information: Genealogical.com CD-ROM products and Macs
January 12, 2005 by admin · Comments Off
I spoke with the folks over at Genealogical.com about using Macs to view the genealogy data on the CD-ROMs they publish/sell, and they informed me they are working on a Mac solution (right now the viewers are Windows only). They don’t have a timeframe as of yet, but will e-mail/contact us when they have more information.
They have a lot of good genealogy publications to begin with (2000+ books and CDs and counting), and it’s great to see they aren’t going to leave Mac genealogists out.
If your interested, you might want to take a look around their site, and maybe even send them an e-mail stating that your a Mac user and would like to be informed when their Mac solution is released. They obviously know there is an interest from Mac users, since they are working on a Mac solution, but it probably wouldn’t hurt to let them know that you are interested and to thank them for working on a Mac solution. We’ll post more information when we have it.
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Software/Update: Books for MacOS X 2.0.9rc12
October 23, 2004 by admin · Comments Off
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.
Supplemental Utility: (Classic Mac OS) PrintToPDF
October 7, 2004 by admin · Comments Off
Although this isn’t new, it may aid some have not moved to Mac OS X.
PrintToPDF is a shareware Macintosh printer driver that creates PDF files (readable by Adobe Acrobat� Reader or GhostScript on any platform). You do not need to have the full Acrobat package (as opposed to the Reader) installed for PrintToPDF to work. You can create PDF bookmarks to your section and subsection headings, and URLs will become hot links. PrintToPDF is not as powerful as Acrobat, but it creates simple PDFs for a much lower price ($20).
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Update - Minor Utilities
September 26, 2004 by admin · Comments Off
Utility updates that may be of interest to some.
Graphic Converter 5.2.3 - Extensive Updates
Word Translator X - Translation Dictionary Tool (handy for old letters/documents)
Living Time 2.05 - Personal Timelining Software
Census Information - Spreadsheets
September 18, 2004 by admin · Comments Off
Two sites that maybe of interest (they do both want e-mail address though..). They deal with spreadsheets created to work with census information.
Check them out if your curious how others are using spreadsheets to track census data (genealogy programs aren’t always the best bet for this).
Census Tools Electronic Spreadsheets - “35 spreadsheets available covering the U.S., Canada, England, Ireland and Scotland” Also “spreadsheets for all federal records as well as the states of Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York and Wisconsin.”
They have a Mac downloads page as well. They are compatible with most modern spreadsheets, so shouldn’t be a problem to use.
CensusMate.com works with pre-1850s census data, with a lot of clear examples of it works and how you can use it to generate timelines and the like. A “Worksheet for Genealogy and Family History” and “Use this TimeLine Format to find ages, names, and birthdates from 1800 to 1850 US Census Data”.
If you know of any others, please contact us.
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