The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding 10.0.2

Last week, a large update was made to The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding (aka “TNG”) by Darrin Lythgoe, bringing it to Version 10.0.2. TNG is a website-based online genealogy program that allows you to collaborate with others on the internet and display your family tree on the internet. Highlights … Read more

Microsoft OneNote for Mac 15.1

Microsoft OneNote for Mac Microsoft has updated OneNote, the very popular “digital notebook” that they released for Macs back in March. OneNote became free with that release. Prior to that, when it was Windows-only on the desktop, it was not free.

Similar to Evernote, it allows you to add and edit notes across multiple platforms. LifeHacker had a very comprehensive comparison between Evernote and OneNote. I can see the appeal for OneNote, and I know a lot of genealogists who have been using it on Windows for quite some time.

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MacFamilyTree 5.7.6

Synium Software has released version 5.7.6 of MacFamilyTree, their Mac OS X genealogy application. It’s mainly some printing fixes and better online MobileMe web site exporting. Changes: * Multiple bugfixes when printing to multiple pages in the graphics editor * Norwegian translation updated * Improved GEDCOM parsing for person and … Read more

Safari and IE-only Genealogy Sites, Todo X, Camino,

Find yourself at a genealogy website that only accepts Windows “Internet Explorer? eFritz.net has a simple trick to enable the “debug” menu in Safari, which lets you select the user agent – i.e., you can select “Windows Internet Explorer” and any site you browse after that will think your using … Read more

Miscellaneous: GeneWeb, iWatermark, photography,

GeneWeb 5.0 is nearing completion and is in beta testing. GeneWeb is a genealogy software program with a Web interface. It can be used off-line or in a Web environment. It uses very efficient techniques of relationship and consanguinity computing, developed in collaboration with Didier R�my, research Director at INRIA.. … Read more

Update: The Next Generation of Genealogy Site Building 5.0.3/5.0.4

The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding Version 5.0.4 has been released. The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding� (“TNG”) is a powerful way to manage and display your genealogy data on the Internet, all without generating a single page of HTML. Instead, your information is stored in MySQL database tables and … Read more