Osk 4.7.1

Osk 4.7.1 is now available from Studlar (Download: here – Studlar.net). This update consists of bug fixes for the Mac OS X genealogy program. This update is free for existing users. Osk is available in the following languages: English, Icelandic, Russian, German, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian, and Italian.

Some of the features of Osk included tracking illness, deaths, education, and occupations throughout a family tree.

Last month, Studlar Software added “Screen Casts” of Osk, which are basically videos showing you how to work with Osk.

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.

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.

MacFamilyTree 4.4.9

MacFamilyTree 4.4.9 was released yesterday. MacFamilyTree is a Mac OS X genealogy application that can also utilize data from other Mac OS X applications (iPhoto, Google Earth, etc.) when building your family tree.

This release contains an improvement in location management, reading GEDCOM files, and navigation.

Changes:
* New Places Database containing more geographic locations, adding also the number of inhabitants.

* Improved reliability when reading Gedcom files with malformed Note entries.

* Events shown on the Family Card, can be accessed again by jumping from one text box to another, using the “Tab”-Key

iFamily for Tiger V2.217

iFamily for Tiger V2.217 was officially released today. iFamily for Tiger is a Mac OS X (10.4+) genealogy application. It can be downloaded here: http://ifamilyfortiger.com/. This is a major update with several new features.

Changes:
Events – On this Day
- A new menu option has been added called Events – On This Day.

Toolbar Search Field
- Added search filter for Marriage Year

Parent-Child Relationships Dialog
- Corrected error in inital display for adopted children

Pictures Pane
- Movies may now be added to the Pictures pane.

Import from Gedcom
- Added special handling for a variety of custom tags from FTW Gedcom files.
- Corrected an error in processing a source related to marriage event.
- Improved handling or Source Repository records.

Export to Gedcom
- Added an option to exclude custom tags from the exported Gedcom File, except for _MILT which is a defacto standard. Custom Tags are those that start with an underscore and are not officially defined in the Gedcom 5.5 Specification.
- Corrected Export Pictures to handle filenames in databases where the folder iFamilyForTigerData has previously been moved.
- All custom tags generated by iFamily for Tiger are now formatted as _ABCD, eg _Location is now _LOCN, _Date is now _DATE

Export BirthDays to iCal
- Added options to export Wedding Anniversaries and Deaths as well as BirthDays to iCal.

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