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August 8, 2007
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Last friday, Personal Ancestry Writer II (PAWriter)- Version 72 was released by Howard Metcalfe. PAWriter is a free Mac genealogy program that incorporates a lot of features found in the original Personal Ancestral File (PAF) for Mac OS/Classic while adding new features in (including many requested by users). Version 72 fixes a bug with the ‘Find Person’ window, as well as adjusting what could be considered possible problems, and adds an option to Ahnentafels in regards to hiding information on living people.
You can download it here (PAWriter forums)
Changes/Updates:
* The source for the crash occurring in the OS X version when double-clicking on a person in the Find Person window has been isolated and corrected. With this correction, the window will open normally every time. Note that this problem occurred in other actions using the Find Person window, e.g., in Merge by Name and Find Relationship by Name. The crash in these other cases is eliminated as well.
* Children adopted by older people will no longer appear in the list of possible problems (previously listed under women 48 years old or older and under men 72 years old or older).
* An option has been added to Ahnentafels to suppress data for people who may be living. The Reference guide has been updated to state this option.
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Posted on
July 27, 2007
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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.
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Posted on
July 26, 2007
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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).
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Posted on
July 16, 2007
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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!
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Posted on
July 11, 2007
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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.
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