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 … Read more
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 … Read more
Macworld has published a review today of iFamily for Tiger 2.2. Once again it’s Jeffery Battersby, who has reviewed several other Mac genealogy applications as well. It’s $30 and available at iFamilyforTiger.com He gave it 3.5 out of 5 mice, saying: iFamily for Tiger 2.2 provides a simple interface to … Read more
FileMaker 9 has been announced, with four versions: FileMaker Pro 9, FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced, FileMaker Server 9, FileMaker Server 9 Advanced. Several Mac genealogy applications and utilities have used previous versions of FileMaker, including one or two genealogy applications currently in development. This is considered one of the biggest … Read more
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 … Read more
If you are curious about iPhone functionality and genealogy applications, iFamily for Tiger allows you to export certain data to iCal, which can then be synced with your iPhone: You can now get daily alarms and reminders on your iPhone of when all your long dead ancestors and relatives were … Read more