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Why we should all change to Reunion and Mac

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What is Reunion?

• Reunion is a genealogy software program for the Macintosh

• Helps you document, store and display information about your family - our ancestors, descendants, cousins, etc

• It records names, dates, places, facts, plenty of notes, sources of information, pictures, sounds, and videos

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What is Reunion?

• It shows family relationships in an elegant, graphic form - people are linked in an easy-to-understand fashion

• Makes it easy to publish your family tree information - even if you want to share it on the web

• You can automatically create common genealogy reports, charts, and forms, as well as birthday calendars, mailing lists, questionnaires, indexes, and other lists

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What is Reunion?

• Reunion even calculates relationships, ages, life expectancies, and statistics

• Reunion also creates large, high-resolution, graphic charts allowing complete on-screen editing of boxes, lines, fonts, and colours

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Easy to enter your family information

• Reunion lets you store every scrap of information: names, dates, plenty of room for notes, free-form text, memoirs, custom fields, mailing address, marital status, and even research logs

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Creates large graphic pedigree and descendant tree charts, fan charts and timeline charts

• Provides complete on-screen editing of box colour, font, font size, shadow, border, connecting lines, and captions

• Move boxes or branches on-screen. byby clicking-and-dragging

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Creates large graphic pedigree and descendant tree charts, fan charts and timeline charts

• Automatically change chart orientation

• Including top-to-bottom, left-to-right, and waterfall models

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Pictures, videos, and sounds

• Digitise your memories (such as colour or black & white pictures, birth certificates, wills, maps, movies, sound recordings)

• You can link multiple multimedia items to a single record, or one multimedia item to multiple records

• Display, magnify, and reduce images on screen

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Pictures, videos, and sounds• Include a complete description and memo for each item

• Easy to include images in your charts, reports, and Web output

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Web output

• Reunion helps you share your information on the web by automatically building complete web projects

• All the necessary HTML files, image files, graphics, and backgrounds are generated and linked for you

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Web output

• If produced on CD, able to share information easily across PC and Mac platforms, without thenecessity of having Reunion, using a web browser

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Graphic forms

• Create family groups sheets, person sheets, questionnaires, and blank forms

• Reunion lets you automatically print forms for any group of people in your files eg. a questionnaire for all your first cousins

• Able to share charts as a graphic file attachment to an email

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Book-style reports

• The narrative ahnentafel report (the ancestors of a person, Register report (the descendants of a couple), and the family history report are perfect for book publishing

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Book-style reports

• Ability to customise the way in which phrases are generated in the report

• Output can be to your preferred word processor eg. Microsoft word, RTF, text or HTML files, or pdf files generated through the Mac interface

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Easy to find information

• Including multiple-criteria searches

• For example, you could search for “all males born in South Australia before 1880” or “all couples married in Ballarat with no children”

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Date calculator

• Able to choose from 16 different formats for the display of dates eg. 28 Jan 1980 or 28/1/1980

• You can enter dates as they might be spoken, like a death date as “40 years 3 months 2 days after birth”

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Wide variety of reports and custom lists

• Automatically opened in your work processor and fully formatted with page numbers, page breaks, headers, superscript reference note citations, columns, etc

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Birthday and Anniversary lists

• Create easy-to-customise lists of events eg. list people whose birth date is in “October”

• Other examples could be to list “Immigration Place” if you were looking at shipping records, or list chronologically for “Census” and include “Census Place” and “Age” if you were researching the various census records

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Relationship calculator

• Tells you, at a glance, how people are related to you (or anyone in your family file)

• Creates custom relationship lists. For example, a list of all your removed cousins or a list of all descendants

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Mailing lists

• Reunion tracks mailing addresses

• Creates mail-merge files when you want to send invitations to an upcoming family reunion

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Import and export

• Full Gedcom import and export lets you transfer data into Reunion without re-typing

• You can exchange data with users of other genealogical software(DOS, Windows, or Macintosh)

• If you have been collecting information in a database program, Reunion features a “text file” import, to help you bring the data into Reunion

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Flexibility

• Reunion lets you create charts and reports for “subset” of your family file

• For example, you can make a tree chart or export a Gedcom file for “direct lines only”

• Able to mark and unmark sets and individuals within sets to create customised reports and charts

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Cascading Pedigree Charts

• These are a series of graphic pedigree charts 4- or 5- generations per page, that are cross referenced with continuation numbers

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Speed Names

• Instantly recalls the last 500 places and surnames you’ve entered, helping you to avoid typing the same place name or surname over and over

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Shows the Ages

• Age and weekday for the birth, death or marriage date, also customised dates (eg Census)

• Length of marriage

• Current age or lifespan of person

• Also age at birth and death of siblings, parents, children, grandparents and grandchildren

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Source Documentation

• Document the sources of your information using “shared” source records

• To cite a source, you only need to record the details about the

source at one time. Can include any source on any record, in any data entry field as many times as you want

• Ability to include sources at the end of reports

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Easy to Get Help

• Easy to use, comprehensive electronic manual

• Leister Productions can be contacted by phone and e-mail (are in the USA). Website has lots of user hints www.leisterpro.com

• ReunionTalk Forums - free, online community of Reunion users

• RAGUG - Reunion and Generations User Group meets monthly

• GumNet

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It’s Great with a Mac!

• iPhoto - Reunion able to include your photos and videos from your iPhoto albums

• iTunes - Reunion can easily add from your iTunes songs

• Any Power Macintosh, iMac, eMac, or iBook with CD drive

• Mac OS 8.5 or newer

• Mac OS X 10.1.3 or newer