Mac Genealogy Software – Unicode, UTF-8, and GEDCOMs

[wpfmb type=’warning’ theme=2]Several of the genealogy applications listed below have been updated or have major/new releases available, and this information will be updated (Feb 2015), however if an application is listed as supporting Unicode, etc., newer versions should continue supporting such features.[/wpfmb] Background of This Article For a brief background … Read more

Mac Genealogy Software Recommendations

[wpfmb type=’warning’ theme=2]The information below is nearly three years out of date (as of February 2015), and a new article/guide will be posted shortly.[/wpfmb] There is an article over at Genealogy Tools, What Genealogy Software Do We Recommend? that you should check out if you get a chance. What Mac … Read more

Mac Genealogy & Family Tree Software

This software list is out of date. This page contains information about actively developed Mac OS X genealogy software (apps, applications) for Apple’s Macintosh Computers – iMac, MacBooks, MacBook Airs, MacBook Pro, Mac Pro. There is additional information at the bottom about older software that may support PowerPC Macs as … Read more

Mac Genealogy Software that Supports LDS Ordinances

[wpfmb theme=2]FamilySearch.org maintains a listing of Mac genealogy applications and utilities that support downloading and uploading directly to FamilySearch.org. Apps listed on this page may only support the ordinance fields in a GEDCOM file, but may not actually interact with FamilySeach.org, although they can generate GEDCOM files that can be … Read more

Press Release for FTM II for Mac

Another genealogist just emailed me the following press release from 1997, and I thought I’d post it since it’s kind of interesting for its historical value (and people may still be using FTM for Macintosh).

Articles

Windows Internet Explorer-only Genealogy Sites: 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 … Read more