Genealogy Software for MAC

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Reggie

Genealogy Software for MAC

Legg inn av Reggie » 29 aug 2006 00:19:40

My friend has a MAC and is looking for software so she can computerize her
genealogy data. Can someone recommend a MAC program as I am unfamiliar with
things Apple?

Anne Chambers

Re: Genealogy Software for MAC

Legg inn av Anne Chambers » 29 aug 2006 00:47:01

Reggie wrote:

My friend has a MAC and is looking for software so she can computerize her
genealogy data. Can someone recommend a MAC program as I am unfamiliar with
things Apple?


I have used Gene for years


http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/gene/

I prefer it to Reunion, the 'standard' Mac genealogy programme.

Anne
South Australia

(no connection, just a satisfied user)

Dave Hinz

Re: Genealogy Software for MAC

Legg inn av Dave Hinz » 29 aug 2006 03:12:33

On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 23:19:40 GMT, Reggie <reggiereesspamstopper@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
My friend has a MAC and is looking for software so she can computerize her
genealogy data. Can someone recommend a MAC program as I am unfamiliar with
things Apple?


Reunion, from liesterpro.com. It's so good it's what got me to switch
to Mac in the first place.

There are others, but they're...others.

Gjest

Re: Genealogy Software for MAC

Legg inn av Gjest » 29 aug 2006 03:23:42

Reggie wrote:
My friend has a MAC and is looking for software so she can computerize her
genealogy data. Can someone recommend a MAC program as I am unfamiliar with
things Apple?

I have been using GENE for years and I find it excellent. It draws
family trees exactly the way I like them.

However, it cannot be used on the new Intel chip Macs. I have my
fingers crossed that David and Diana Eppstein will rewrite it for
MacOSX.

Barbarossa

Re: Genealogy Software for Mac

Legg inn av Barbarossa » 29 aug 2006 07:47:50

Reggie wrote:
My friend has a Mac and is looking for software so she can
computerize her genealogy data. Can someone recommend a Mac
program as I am unfamiliar with things Apple?

smcmurt@bigpond.net.au wrote:

I have been using GENE for years and I find it excellent. It
draws family trees exactly the way I like them.

However, it cannot be used on the new Intel chip Macs. I have
my fingers crossed that David and Diana Eppstein will rewrite
it for MacOSX.

Barbarossa:

Are you sure that that is the case? Even though 'Gene' has
not been rewritten as a "Universal Binary" it should be handled
by the 'Rosetta' translator included in OS-X.

<http://www.apple.com/rosetta/>

The ubiquitous Micro$oft 'Office' and Adobe 'Creative Suite'
will not be Universal Binaries until next spring, but they are
handled by Rosetta on MacIntels in the meantime.

Applications written specifically for the PowerPC processor
(G4 & G5) such as Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator) that
use "vector processing" do take a speed hit of up to 50% when
handled by Rosetta, but I can't see that as anything but trivial
with a genealogy program where the speed is limited by how fast
you can type.

I personally have never used Gene; I use Reunion.
--
________B___a___r___b___a___r___o___s___s___a________
Wayne B. Hewitt Encinitas, CA whewitt@ucsd.edu

Hugh Watkins

Re: Genealogy Software for MAC

Legg inn av Hugh Watkins » 29 aug 2006 07:57:31

Reggie wrote:
My friend has a MAC and is looking for software so she can computerize her
genealogy data. Can someone recommend a MAC program as I am unfamiliar with
things Apple?


what kind of Mac?


I hated Reunion and Heredis
too diffucult for me after years with Family Tree Maker

so on my dual core intel mac
OS 10.4.7
I installed Parallels
after downloading from the web

then an OEM WIN XP sp2 from a cd
AVG ante virus

then Family Tree Maker 16 (was 2006 but got an auto update on the web)


I also use MS IE 6 for online banking
and when Firefox on the Mac could not post to blogger

I used the "PC" window to compleet my blog post there


Hugh W

--

new computer = new blog
http://mac-on-intel.blogspot.com/

daily blogs with new photos
http://snaps2006.blogspot.com/
http://slim2005.blogspot.com/

family history
http://hughw36.blogspot.com

Jan Lafeber

Re: Genealogy Software for MAC

Legg inn av Jan Lafeber » 29 aug 2006 15:44:42

Reggie wrote:
My friend has a MAC and is looking for software so she can computerize her
genealogy data. Can someone recommend a MAC program as I am unfamiliar with
things Apple?


This is the web site of Leister Productions,

developer of Reunion, the family tree software for Macintosh:
http://www.leisterpro.com/
It's a very great program.

Jan Lafeber
http://www.lafeber.info

Graeme Wall

Re: Genealogy Software for MAC

Legg inn av Graeme Wall » 01 sep 2006 20:49:16

In message <gSKIg.3609$tU.1861@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com>
"Reggie" <reggiereesspamstopper@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

My friend has a MAC and is looking for software so she can computerize her
genealogy data. Can someone recommend a MAC program as I am unfamiliar with
things Apple?



Reunion

--
Graeme Wall

My genealogy website:
<http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/index.html>

Tristram Shandy

Re: Genealogy Software for MAC

Legg inn av Tristram Shandy » 02 sep 2006 04:29:35

On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:19:40 -0700, Reggie wrote
(in article <gSKIg.3609$tU.1861@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com>):

My friend has a MAC and is looking for software so she can computerize her
genealogy data. Can someone recommend a MAC program as I am unfamiliar with
things Apple?

I like Reunion a lot. My wife used to use PAF but it seemed to be primitive
in comparison (my apologies to any PAF fans here).

I especially like Reunion's charting, maybe because I am somewhat spatial
in relating to some things. Reunion's charts are excellent and can be
modified manually after they've been generated. I think it's very cool
that you can do a control-click on a person on the chart and be taken
to that person's card in the database. It allows me to visualize
relationships, get an overview, then select which branch I want to work
on next.

From a web point of view, I don't think Reunion's output is very attractive
but it does work.

The web output for Gene looks interesting but the web site implies that
Gene can't run under OS X but runs on the Mac "Classic" emulation.
The site hasn't been updated since 2003. That also concerns me.
OS 10 has been around for over 4 years. I think an update for Gene
is long overdue, by at least a couple of years.

My recommendation is Reunion. The web location has already been
posted. Take a tour of the features and sample output there.

- Tris

Hugh Watkins

Re: Genealogy Software for MAC

Legg inn av Hugh Watkins » 03 sep 2006 01:17:39

I found reunion
difficult

I use FTM 16 running on an OEM WinXp sp2 on Parallels
on Mac OS 14.4.7
on two core Intel


and smile every day

Hugh W


Tristram Shandy wrote:
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:19:40 -0700, Reggie wrote
(in article <gSKIg.3609$tU.1861@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com>):


My friend has a MAC and is looking for software so she can computerize her
genealogy data. Can someone recommend a MAC program as I am unfamiliar with
things Apple?


I like Reunion a lot. My wife used to use PAF but it seemed to be primitive
in comparison (my apologies to any PAF fans here).

I especially like Reunion's charting, maybe because I am somewhat spatial
in relating to some things. Reunion's charts are excellent and can be
modified manually after they've been generated. I think it's very cool
that you can do a control-click on a person on the chart and be taken
to that person's card in the database. It allows me to visualize
relationships, get an overview, then select which branch I want to work
on next.

From a web point of view, I don't think Reunion's output is very attractive
but it does work.

The web output for Gene looks interesting but the web site implies that
Gene can't run under OS X but runs on the Mac "Classic" emulation.
The site hasn't been updated since 2003. That also concerns me.
OS 10 has been around for over 4 years. I think an update for Gene
is long overdue, by at least a couple of years.

My recommendation is Reunion. The web location has already been
posted. Take a tour of the features and sample output there.

- Tris



--

new computer = new blog
http://mac-on-intel.blogspot.com/

daily blogs with new photos
http://snaps2006.blogspot.com/
http://slim2005.blogspot.com/

family history
http://hughw36.blogspot.com

Gjest

Re: Genealogy Software for MAC

Legg inn av Gjest » 03 sep 2006 03:29:36

Reunion. Hands down. We're on OSX and it works like a charm still.

Love the charts and graphs, easy to use, designed specifically for the
Mac, what's not to like?

Mary G.

Hugh Watkins

Re: Genealogy Software for MAC

Legg inn av Hugh Watkins » 03 sep 2006 09:30:28

Mary_Gordon@tvo.org wrote:

Reunion. Hands down. We're on OSX and it works like a charm still.

Love the charts and graphs, easy to use, designed specifically for the
Mac, what's not to like?

entering larger quantities of data on a tiny card with small print

FTM 16 is much kinder on my old eyes

when you examine a chart or report in FTM you can use it to navigate by
selecting or double clicking

Reunion calls external "help" programmes
it just seemed primitive in comparison with FTM 2006

with WinXP Sp 2 on Parallels on MacOS 10.4.7 on dual core intel
I have access to many other useful programs too

and my online banking works well

Parallels is very new and needs better video card drivers before pc
gamers will like it

but it is wonderful for old mac users returning after 5 or 6 years of
PCs to have a wider choice of applications than ever before

Hugh W

--

new computer = new blog
http://mac-on-intel.blogspot.com/

daily blogs with new photos
http://snaps2006.blogspot.com/
http://slim2005.blogspot.com/

family history
http://hughw36.blogspot.com

Tristram Shandy

Re: Genealogy Software for MAC

Legg inn av Tristram Shandy » 04 sep 2006 04:07:11

On Sun, 3 Sep 2006 01:30:28 -0700, Hugh Watkins wrote
(in article <4lvi4rF3lcqtU1@individual.net>):

Mary_Gordon@tvo.org wrote:

Reunion. Hands down. We're on OSX and it works like a charm still.

Love the charts and graphs, easy to use, designed specifically for the
Mac, what's not to like?

entering larger quantities of data on a tiny card with small print

FTM 16 is much kinder on my old eyes...

Hugh,

I understand fully. I've increased font sizes in applications, pushed the
monitor further back, and I'm always trying to find the right angle for my
progressive lenses.

Given Reunion's family card feature of having the spousesside-by-side,
I'm not sure larger fonts choices is viable - I expect it would require a
widescreen monitor or cinema display to see it all - but I admit it would
be worthwhile putting larger fonts on a wish list with the author. There
may be a way to implement it.

Reunion calls external "help" programmes
it just seemed primitive in comparison with FTM 2006

Reunion's help files work very well.

with WinXP Sp 2 on Parallels on MacOS 10.4.7 on dual core intel
I have access to many other useful programs too

I think Parallels is very cool but, from what I've heard and also read
on the web site, it's still a beta product (meaning there are known
problems and it's not ready for full release - but they're still willing to
take our money). You also need to accept all the security, viral
and instability problems inherent to the MS-Windows environment.
Though it's running on an Intel powered Mac, it's still Windows
running in parallel (hence the name). I know you know that but
I'm not sure others here do - I believe you're quite an expert on
computers.

From my previous experience managing departmental computing
I avoid using beta software unless it solves an urgent problem.
By urgent, I mean something such as keeping the computer or
critical application running.

Hey, I enjoy your web site/blog. Thanks for all the interesting
information.

- Tris

David J Grimshaw

Re: Genealogy Software for MAC

Legg inn av David J Grimshaw » 04 sep 2006 23:20:50

Tristram Shandy wrote:
On Sun, 3 Sep 2006 01:30:28 -0700, Hugh Watkins wrote
(in article <4lvi4rF3lcqtU1@individual.net>):


Mary_Gordon@tvo.org wrote:


Reunion. Hands down. We're on OSX and it works like a charm still.

Love the charts and graphs, easy to use, designed specifically for the
Mac, what's not to like?

entering larger quantities of data on a tiny card with small print

FTM 16 is much kinder on my old eyes...


Hugh,

I understand fully. I've increased font sizes in applications, pushed the
monitor further back, and I'm always trying to find the right angle for my
progressive lenses.

Given Reunion's family card feature of having the spousesside-by-side,
I'm not sure larger fonts choices is viable - I expect it would require a
widescreen monitor or cinema display to see it all - but I admit it would
be worthwhile putting larger fonts on a wish list with the author. There
may be a way to implement it.


Reunion calls external "help" programmes
it just seemed primitive in comparison with FTM 2006


Reunion's help files work very well.


with WinXP Sp 2 on Parallels on MacOS 10.4.7 on dual core intel
I have access to many other useful programs too


I think Parallels is very cool but, from what I've heard and also read
on the web site, it's still a beta product (meaning there are known
problems and it's not ready for full release - but they're still willing to
take our money). You also need to accept all the security, viral
and instability problems inherent to the MS-Windows environment.
Though it's running on an Intel powered Mac, it's still Windows
running in parallel (hence the name). I know you know that but
I'm not sure others here do - I believe you're quite an expert on
computers.

From my previous experience managing departmental computing
I avoid using beta software unless it solves an urgent problem.
By urgent, I mean something such as keeping the computer or
critical application running.

Hey, I enjoy your web site/blog. Thanks for all the interesting
information.

- Tris


Hi,

Just a thought concerning the font size, try changing the screen size as
this does effect the font size you see.
If your screen resolution is set higher than 800 x 600 If possible go to
800 x 600 resolution, this will increase the font size.
Note some programs will not like this however.
This does work on a PC so may work on a MAC.
Hope this is of some help.

Hugh Watkins

Re: Genealogy Software for MAC

Legg inn av Hugh Watkins » 05 sep 2006 00:40:11

Tristram Shandy wrote:

On Sun, 3 Sep 2006 01:30:28 -0700, Hugh Watkins wrote
(in article <4lvi4rF3lcqtU1@individual.net>):


Mary_Gordon@tvo.org wrote:


Reunion. Hands down. We're on OSX and it works like a charm still.

Love the charts and graphs, easy to use, designed specifically for the
Mac, what's not to like?

entering larger quantities of data on a tiny card with small print

FTM 16 is much kinder on my old eyes...


Hugh,

I understand fully. I've increased font sizes in applications, pushed the
monitor further back, and I'm always trying to find the right angle for my
progressive lenses.

Given Reunion's family card feature of having the spousesside-by-side,
I'm not sure larger fonts choices is viable - I expect it would require a
widescreen monitor or cinema display to see it all - but I admit it would
be worthwhile putting larger fonts on a wish list with the author. There
may be a way to implement it.


Reunion calls external "help" programmes
it just seemed primitive in comparison with FTM 2006


Reunion's help files work very well.


with WinXP Sp 2 on Parallels on MacOS 10.4.7 on dual core intel
I have access to many other useful programs too


I think Parallels is very cool but, from what I've heard and also read
on the web site, it's still a beta product (meaning there are known
problems and it's not ready for full release - but they're still willing to
take our money). You also need to accept all the security, viral
and instability problems inherent to the MS-Windows environment.
Though it's running on an Intel powered Mac, it's still Windows
running in parallel (hence the name). I know you know that but
I'm not sure others here do - I believe you're quite an expert on
computers.

From my previous experience managing departmental computing
I avoid using beta software unless it solves an urgent problem.
By urgent, I mean something such as keeping the computer or
critical application running.

Hey, I enjoy your web site/blog. Thanks for all the interesting
information.


no parallels is not beta

and really stable
build 1834 13 June 2006
a beta is also available of the next version

I use it every day

Hugh W



--

new computer = new blog
http://mac-on-intel.blogspot.com/

daily blogs with new photos
http://snaps2006.blogspot.com/
http://slim2005.blogspot.com/

family history
http://hughw36.blogspot.com

Hugh Watkins

Re: Genealogy Software for MAC

Legg inn av Hugh Watkins » 05 sep 2006 00:59:46

David J Grimshaw wrote:

Tristram Shandy wrote:

On Sun, 3 Sep 2006 01:30:28 -0700, Hugh Watkins wrote
(in article <4lvi4rF3lcqtU1@individual.net>):


Mary_Gordon@tvo.org wrote:


Reunion. Hands down. We're on OSX and it works like a charm still.

Love the charts and graphs, easy to use, designed specifically for the
Mac, what's not to like?


entering larger quantities of data on a tiny card with small print

FTM 16 is much kinder on my old eyes...



Hugh,

I understand fully. I've increased font sizes in applications, pushed the
monitor further back, and I'm always trying to find the right angle
for my progressive lenses.

Given Reunion's family card feature of having the spousesside-by-side,
I'm not sure larger fonts choices is viable - I expect it would
require a widescreen monitor or cinema display to see it all - but I
admit it would
be worthwhile putting larger fonts on a wish list with the author. There
may be a way to implement it.


Reunion calls external "help" programmes
it just seemed primitive in comparison with FTM 2006



Reunion's help files work very well.


with WinXP Sp 2 on Parallels on MacOS 10.4.7 on dual core intel
I have access to many other useful programs too



I think Parallels is very cool but, from what I've heard and also read
on the web site, it's still a beta product (meaning there are known
problems and it's not ready for full release - but they're still
willing to
take our money). You also need to accept all the security, viral
and instability problems inherent to the MS-Windows environment.
Though it's running on an Intel powered Mac, it's still Windows
running in parallel (hence the name). I know you know that but
I'm not sure others here do - I believe you're quite an expert on
computers.

From my previous experience managing departmental computing
I avoid using beta software unless it solves an urgent problem.
By urgent, I mean something such as keeping the computer or
critical application running.

Hey, I enjoy your web site/blog. Thanks for all the interesting
information.

- Tris


Hi,
Just a thought concerning the font size, try changing the screen size as
this does effect the font size you see.

yes I could do that but 17" 1680 x 1050
96dpi is what i use on the lap top

1600 x 1024 76 hz
on the old 19"

with WinXp Sp2 set at 1450 x 852
and when I expand FTM 16 to fill the whole parallels screen
the font auro adjusts and is easy to read




If your screen resolution is set higher than 800 x 600 If possible go to
800 x 600 resolution, this will increase the font size.
Note some programs will not like this however.
This does work on a PC so may work on a MAC.
Hope this is of some help.

Reunion 8
doed not respond to Apple "+" to increase font size
like a web page or mail program

and does not list all the children in an editable format on the parents page

looking at a Family History report calls iWork whatever thst is

I can make the windows smaller but not bigger

I think Reunion was state oif the art about 2 years ago

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1424 ... 036.22.jpg
not a screen shot but phone cam snap of 2 screens
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1424 ... 052.11.jpg
and with my 28" tv in the baackground

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1424 ... 0061.7.jpg

anyway


having a great time in the danish archives

Hugh W


--

new computer = new blog
http://mac-on-intel.blogspot.com/

daily blogs with new photos
http://snaps2006.blogspot.com/
http://slim2005.blogspot.com/

family history
http://hughw36.blogspot.com

Michael P. Thompson

Re: Genealogy Software for MAC

Legg inn av Michael P. Thompson » 12 sep 2006 19:34:13

On 9/3/06 2:30 AM, in article 4lvi4rF3lcqtU1@individual.net, "Hugh Watkins"
<hugh.watkins@gmail.com> wrote:

entering larger quantities of data on a tiny card with small print

FTM 16 is much kinder on my old eyes

when you examine a chart or report in FTM you can use it to navigate by
selecting or double clicking

Reunion calls external "help" programmes
it just seemed primitive in comparison with FTM 2006

with WinXP Sp 2 on Parallels on MacOS 10.4.7 on dual core intel

But that's not Macintosh. It's Windows. Not all of us have a dual core
machine, or are likely to in the near future. Wintel users have been telling
us for years to just buy their machines instead of those we prefer. Now you
give us the same answer, buy a new computer. Not much of an answer for most
of us.

The external Help program is a Macintosh standard. It avoids bloating the
main program with help files. It runs quite fast and works well for many
Macintosh programs.

I've looked into FTM many times, but it's just not available for Mac and I
never get a straight answer to whether it will be or not. In fact, I keep
getting e-mails advising me to buy it, even though it won't work on my
machine and I've advised them of this many times and requested a Mac
version.



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Steve W. Jackson

Re: Genealogy Software for MAC

Legg inn av Steve W. Jackson » 13 sep 2006 21:40:47

In article <C12C59C5.4E50B%michaelpthompson@comcast.net>,
"Michael P. Thompson" <michaelpthompson@comcast.net> wrote:

[ snip ]

I've looked into FTM many times, but it's just not available for Mac and I
never get a straight answer to whether it will be or not. In fact, I keep
getting e-mails advising me to buy it, even though it won't work on my
machine and I've advised them of this many times and requested a Mac
version.

FTM for the Macintosh was discontinued ages ago. Anyone who's dancing
around your question as to whether there'll ever be another one should
be ashamed of themselves for lying to you. They have already answered
numerous times that there will not be. It's also been made quite clear
that their priorities don't include Mac users in most any other
respects. They have too much interest in selling their CDs full of
bloated and often stolen/inaccurate information.
--
Steve W. Jackson
Montgomery, Alabama

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