Caboodle 1.0b2

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A beta version 1.0b2 of Caboodle from Dejal Systems, LLC has been released. Caboodle allows you to Collect random snippets of text or images. From Dejal:

Everyone comes across information that they want to refer to later. Maybe gifts you’ve received or sent, product serial numbers, recipes, directions to someone’s house, a photo of your pet, or anything else. Caboodle is a tool to help store and organize such random bits of information.

You can arrange the items in an outline-like hierarchy, and include both structured fields and free-form text and pictures in each entry, along with web links, lists, tables, and more. The entries can be searched, and the Services menu is also supported, to quickly add or output an entry.

Requires: Mac OS X 10.3.9 or better.
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MacGenealogy – Transition Complete

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The transition is complete. Everything should be back to normal within a day or so. You’ll need to create a new account for the forums if you wish to post. I will restore some of the older threads as time permits (or make the information in them available elsewhere on … Read more

EndNote 9

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EndNote 9 has been released by ResearchSoft – this is a major release for the bibliography tool.

GEDCOM Files: Mac – PC

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Note: This is a very long article. If your not doing a frequent exchange of GEDCOM files with other people, or you don’t have any problems when you do so, you should probably skip this. This grew out of a problem I had with a relative. We did much of what was listed below, until we were comfortable in knowing what the problems were on both sides, and how to work around them.

It’s a very serious problem in the genealogy software world – there are companies that can make it difficult, or at the least don’t make it very easy, to migrate or share information between platforms or genealogy programs. The idea being that they want you locked into their software.

If your having problems with GEDCOM files, going between Macs and PCs (even Macs to Macs or PCs to PCs), there are a few things you can do:

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Backing up your data

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There is an article on Random Genealogy about backing up your genealogy data and making sure it’s some place safe, in light of the recent hurricane.