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When writing an article I usually don't add images until I've completed the text editing so the floating images work really well then. With maps, I use the internet, usually Google Maps. In Pages I add dots and text boxes to mark the relevant places and then attach them to the map with Group, so if ...

Using a text box to caption an image allows the caption to be "attached" to the image using the Group function. The image and caption can then be repositioned or resized in one operation, without having to repeat the process for the caption. The caption's text box needs to be the same width as the i...

Pages will do the job for you very nicely. I recently downloaded a trial of InDesign and it certainly does do much more than Pages but I finally concluded that all the extra bells and whistles were not necessary for me. A Pages project of mine printed up very well at the local office supplies shop. ...

You just need to add more detail to the date of burial. Where the exact date of burial is not known, you could put "aft 29 March 1969". Another approach would be to guess at when the burial might have occurred and enter perhaps "abt 31 March 1969". Both ways should place the burial after the death i...

The transcription area in Add/Edit Sources can be accessed by right clicking the picture and choosing Transcribe from the pop-up menu. However, this does not work with a .pdf file.

Sue

I love iFamily too, it's great. You certainly have a lot of queries which I'll have a go at answering. The Search function of this forum or some of the other users might give you the appropriate answers if I don't. Question 1: How do I do AKAs or alternate names? Answer: There is an "Also K...

If the children are listed as step-children of the Father, then the following should work. 1. Double-click the Father's box in the Context Diagram so that he becomes the Focal Person 2. The children should now be showing in their boxes to the left of the Father. There should be a line running fro...

Hi Bruno,

If you use this forum's Search function (in the blue links at the top right of the page) you may find the solution.

This one in particular could help: iFamily Help/Post subject: Trouble loading gedcom file into ancestry.com - Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008

Sue

Hi Favell

Try right-clicking the thumbnail. One of the choices on the resultant pop-up menu is 'Remove', which works nicely.