GedWise 6.3.2 (for Mac OS X)

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From MobileGenealogy.com: Battery Park Software has updated their Mac OS X installer for GedWise, their PalmOS-based genealogy application. This brings GedWise for Mac OS X up to version 6.3.2. This update “added compatibility for GEDCOM’s created on different computer system that use various end-of-line terminators.”

Personal Ancestry Writer II (PAWriter II) version 48

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Howard Metcalfe has released Personal Ancestry Writer II (PAWriter II) version 48 (4 Dec 2005). PAWriter II is a Mac (MacOS 8.6/9 or Mac OS X ) genealogy application that has most of the features found in the original Personal Ancestry File (PAF) for Mac, as well as additional publishing features (HTML/Web, word processing, desktop publishing (DTP)).

Additions:
* New menu item, File > Write HTML > Pedigree of This Person. It produces an HTML file containing a pedigree of the current person and all of his/her ancestors that are on file. The pedigree is formatted in the same text-oriented way as is a web site pedigree. For very extensive pedigrees, PAWriter might take a while to produce the file. This menu item is disabled if the current person has no ancestors.
Note: When printing the pedigree from your browser, select any option to “shrink pages to fit.” In Internet Explorer or Netscape, this option is available from the File > Print Preview menu item. This option ensures that the pedigree will fit on one page across, with one or more pages down.

*Preference for breaking long GEDCOM notes between non-space characters (GEDCOM 5.5 standard for CONC lines). Previous versions of PAWriter broke those lines on a space character (non-standard but frequently used). Be sure to use the same method both when you export a GEDCOM file and then import that file. If you don’t, extra spaces will appear or valid spaces will disappear in the notes.

Other Changes:

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MacFamilyTree 4.2.3

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MacFamilyTree 4.2.3 has just been released. A lot of work has been done on the Timeline, but most importantly, degree of reliability has been added to any given information. There’s also a new feature to save parts of trees, including specific individuals or families, by simply selecting them from the sidebar/index.

Bee Docs’ Timeline 1.3

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According to the Bee Docs’ Blog, Bee Docs’ Timeline was recently updated to version 1.3. This version “fixes a rare but pesky bug that causes the foundation date labels to disappear during certain date ranges”

Transcriva

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Transcriva 1.0, from Bartas Technologies recently came out. For those of you who haven’t heard about it, it’s a new audio transcription program for Mac OS X 10.3 or later. More than a few genealogists do interviews with family members and the like, while making audio recordings of them, and this allows you to easily produce an accurate transcript (including RTF).

Personal Ancestry Writer II Version 47 (27 Nov 2005)

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Personal Ancestry Writer II (PAWriter II) version 47, was updated today. PAWriter II “combines most of the features of the LDS Personal Ancestral File program (PAF) for the Macintosh with additional features that generate web pages (in HTML), word processing files (in RTF for, e.g., AppleWorks) and desktop publishing files (in MML for FrameMaker). The generated report files include genealogical dictionaries, registers, ahnentafels and lineages—such as appear on this site—as well as some interesting text files and pedigree charts. It requires Mac OS 8.6/9.0, or Mac OS X.

Changes:
*Added a preference for the background color in PAWriter windows.
*Reference Guide was updated to reflect this.

Developer’s Note:

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