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Research Tools for Genealogists

Birthday Grapher 1.1

Posted on December 18, 2005 by admin

Birthday Grapher 1.1 has been released. What is Birthday Grapher? It’s a tool designed to help explain and visualize the infamous “Birthday Paradox”. Continue reading →

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BibDesk 1.2.0

Posted on December 9, 2005 by admin

BibDesk, the graphical BibTeX-bibliography manager for Mac OS X is now up to version 1.2.0. One major change – Mac OS X 10.3.9 is now required.

Full release notes for 1.2.0 – SourceForge.net
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Transcriva

Posted on November 30, 2005 by admin

Transcriva 1.0, from Bartas Technologies recently came out. For those of you who haven’t heard about it, it’s a new audio transcription program for Mac OS X 10.3 or later. More than a few genealogists do interviews with family members and the like, while making audio recordings of them, and this allows you to easily produce an accurate transcript (including RTF). Continue reading →

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Metes and Bounds 1.3

Posted on November 17, 2005 by admin

Sandy Knoll Software’s Metes and Bounds 1.3 for Mac OS X 10.1.5+, is now available. Metes and Bounds is basically a land mapping applications that turns metes and bounds data into a plot map. Genealogists might be able to us it for plotting cemeteries, homesteads, etc. Continue reading →

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Mellel 2.0 and Mellel Spotlight Plugin

Posted on November 15, 2005 by admin

Mellel 2.0, the word processor from RedleX, has been released. Mellel is one of the leading word processors for Mac OS X, with a special focus on scholars, writers, technical writing and multilingual word processing. A lot of genealogists use it because of the above advertised features -if you’re writing formal genealogy documents/books, the formatting, footnote/endnote, citation, and layout features are a big plus. Version 2.0 is a major update, and requires Mac OS X 10.2.

The Mellel Spotlight Plugin is just that – a plugin for Mac OS X 10.4′s Spotlight, that makes Mellel documents searchable. Continue reading →

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