Reunion for Max

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Reunion for Max!

• 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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Features - Top 20 Reasons to Buy Reunion?

• 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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Features - Top 20 Reasons to Buy Reunion?

• 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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Features - Top 20 Reasons to Buy Reunion?

• 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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Features - Top 20 Reasons to buy Reunion?

• 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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Features - Top 20 Reasons to buy Reunion?

• 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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Features - Top 20 Reasons to Buy Reunion?

• 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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Features - Top 20 Reasons to Buy Reunion?

• 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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Features - Top 20 Reasons to Buy Reunion?

• 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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Features - Top 20 Reasons to Buy Reunion?

• 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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Features - Top 20 Reasons to Buy Reunion?

• 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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Features - Top 20 Reasons to Buy Reunion?

• 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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Features - Top 20 Reasons to Buy Reunion?

• 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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Features - Top 20 Reasons to Buy Reunion?

• 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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Features - Top 20 Reasons to Buy Reunion?

• 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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Features - Top 20 Reasons to Buy Reunion?

• 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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Features - Top 20 Reasons to Buy Reunion?

• 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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Features - Top 20 Reasons to Buy Reunion?

• 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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Features - Top 20 Reasons to Buy Reunion?

• 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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Features - Top 20 Reasons to Buy Reunion?

• 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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Features - Top 20 Reasons to Buy Reunion?

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

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Features - Top 20 Reasons to Buy Reunion?

• 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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Features - Top 20 Reasons to Buy Reunion?

• 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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Features - Top 20 Reasons to Buy Reunion?

• 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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Features - Top 20 Reasons to Buy Reunion?

• Its 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