Genealogy Applications

Mac OS X Genealogy Applications

Family 1.2

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Family 1.2 is now available. This is a new genealogy application that requires Mac OS X 10.4 and is a Universal Binary. All genealogy information, multimedia, etc., are contained in a single file. A demo can be downloaded here. Version 1.2 addresses a lot of the issues that 1.0 users had.

Personal Ancestry Writer II v50 (1 Apr 2006)

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The April 1st, 2006 update to Personal Ancestry Writer II (PAWriter II) version 50 was posted today. As you may know, PAWriter II is a Genealogy Application that was designed from the ground up to have features similar to the original Personal Ancestral File (PAF) for MacOS (PAW supports MacOS and Mac OS X). This update includes an enhancment to the user interface, and an addtition to the html reports.

Personal Ancestry Writer II v50 (25 Mar 2006)

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Howard Metcalfe has releasedPersonal Ancestry Writer II (PAWriter II) version 50 today. PAWriter II is a MacOS/Mac OS X Genealogy Application that was designed from the ground up to have features similar to the original Personal Ancestral File (PAF) for MacOS. This release adds many new features including UI/navigation changes, pictures/multimedia (note: Version 49 will not be able to load data files that have had pictures added under Version 50).
Personal Ancestry Writer II

Changes:
* Added pictures and a Pictures menu.
* Reassigned command-B, -O (letter O) and -W; command-B will now be used to
show/hide the shortcut buttons while command-O and command-W will be used in
the Pictures menu.
* Added tagging of people with pictures, and with pictures that can’t be found.
* Added a Window menu.
* Updated the reference guide to reflect these changes.

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MemoryMiner’s Future Additions – GEDCOM Support

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While checking the MemoryMiner Blog, I noticed that GroupSmarts, LLC, is adding some of the most requested features for MemoryMiner in the upcoming version 1.1 release:
* GEDCOM import
* Read embedded IPTC metadata (to automatically associate to people and places in MemoryMiner)
* Automatic upload to .Mac and (S)FTP servers (to make publishing easier)

They note that it should make genealogists happy, and I believe it will.

On a sidenote, MemoryMiner won a 2006 Macworld Best of Show award (that link will give you a good review of MemoryMiner).

Finally, John Fox of GroupSmarts, LLC, was interviewed in a Podcast at DuelBootRadio.lybsyn.com where he discusses what goes into MemoryMiner and how it came about (very detailed discussion).

Announcing Family 1.0

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Family 1.0 has been released. This is a brand new genealogy application (the second one this month I believe). It requires Mac OS X 10.4 and is a Universal Binary. All genealogy informatin, multimedia, etc., are contained in a single file.