On that same note, you can export your data to a GEDCOM file, and move to a different genealogy management methodology at a later date. A few clicks, and you’ll have all of your hard work imported into this app. If you’re interested in importing your genealogical information from other sources, Reunion 9 is compatible with the GEDCOM format. Logs - A way to keep notes of your work.Ages - An overview of significant events in the selected profile’s timeline.Sources - A place to manage all of the different ways you found your genealogical information.Overview - Gives you a quick display of the the branches of the highlighted family profile.

Treetops - An overview of the generations in your family.

Find - Search for any relative on your tree.Marriage - A window where you can view and edit the relationship information between spouses.Multimedia - A place to manage and view all media files associated with your family tree.Index - This gives you a list of all of your different relatives.It changes depending on who the person of focus is. Home - A basic display of you and your closest relatives.The different modes you can view content in are as following: Instead, using this app makes you feel like you’re using an application from the 1990s. Considering this is a $99.99 program ($59.95 for an upgrade), one would expect a wonderful, modern interface. The completely modal design makes you feel like you’re using a handful of different applications super-glued together. Every single button on your tool bar will spawn a new window with its specific content. My biggest problem with this application is the user interface. Apparently, they just aren’t into free promotion of their product. Surprisingly, however, the company refused to do an interview for our podcast. However, I would like to thank the press contact for Leister Productions for being accommodating and courteous. This was solely so that I could review this application in full, and it does not influence the content of the review. In interest of full disclosure, I was granted a review license of their software, and a coupon code for their iPhone application. I’ll be reviewing both of those along with web services like Geni for my continuing series “Genealogy on your Mac.” Today, however, I will discuss Reunion 9 in depth. What I found was two different apps: Reunion 9 and MacFamilyTree. I figured that there must be some quality genealogy apps for the Mac and iPhone, so I started looking around. I spend a couple hours a week researching, and adding to my family tree.

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