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My specific need is to break away from the built-in source format and add freeform source information; in doing so I would like to italicize certain words (titles) when appropriate. When I tried to change the font, it changed the entire field. Am I missing something? My limited knowledge of databas...

Hi Bob Many thanks for your detailed list of windows that do not respond to Cmd+W. I will investigate all of them and make the necessary changes in the next release of iFamily, however, some of the panels are "floating child panels" and the current Apple Human Interface Guideline (HIG) says that suc...

I'm sure there's a cleverer way, but what I do in that situation is create 'phantom' parents to attach the children to e.g. Mr Smith and Mrs Smith (use whatever your surname is) which allows you to continue until you get the evidence for what they are actually called. Also works the other way for "...

Keith, Are there any plans to allow photos for an event in addition to people and sources? It seems like, for example, a wedding photo should be attached to the Marriage Event instead of to both individuals separately.Thanks, Jon Hi Jon If you drag the same image into iFamily more than once then iF...

The simplest solution is to give the user the choice of binary or decimal representations. However, to interpret a decimal Ahnentafel number the first thing a reader has to do is to mentally convert it to a binary string of 0's and 1's.

Will provide the option in V2.502

Keith

Hi

I have added a new FAQ at

Where do I put Notes and Comments?

which may explain the way that iFamily was intended to handle the information in the Notes, Comments and Story fields.

Keith

Content moved to new support page, click here. (website still under construction)


I hope the above makes it all a bit clearer.

Keith

Children are sorted by Birth date followed by Name. If none of the children has a birth date then the sort is in name sequence. So, if none of the children has a birth date then, until you have found their birth dates, you can prefix each name with a numeric number, for instance I added three childr...

Try Reports -> Selected Person, or Ancestors or Descendants.

Keith

There is a check button called "Multiline Notes" that will display all the Notes expanded.

Keith

The default list only includes "E-mail message" I suspect that you have imported a Gedcom file that had "Email" as a Source Type and that iFamily created an extra type to accommodate your data. If you want to combine them all into one Source Type then: Open Sources Add/Edit dialog Click on the colum...

What's New in V2.506 Context Diagram - Highlighting Inconsistencies V2.501 - added an option to highlight inconsistent parent-child relationships in the Context Diagram. They are calculated using similar rules to those used in the Data Inconsistency Report. Clicking on the mid point of the relat...

One option is to include all the reference numbers in a separate report - an Index of People report. This would allow options to include Numeric Id, Reference Number, Ancestral File Number .... Creating indexing instructions in an RTF file is problematic because different word processors handle inde...

In iFamily you can add as many Source Types as you like - you are not constrained to using the list that is there by default. For instructions on adding a new Source Type click on the Help button to the right of Source Type in the Sources Add/Edit dialog

Keith

I have a large timeline wall chart of composers - would that help? Sorry to be flippant - other genealogy applications do include various types of timelines that can be displayed together with timelines for each person in the database. Some time ago I created one for wars but there have been so many...

Some word processors need this place-holder or the footer does not display correctly.

Keith

Hi Marion There are two reports in the "Events -> Places" dialog - one is RTF and the other is CSV format. These two reports were designed as an aid for people to clean up place names that were imported from a Gedcom file. You seem to be needing a nicely formatted report for some sort of printed pub...

Undo or Cmd+Z should work fine

Keith

This is a wonderfully presentation of keeping things focused and simple for giving info to others - thank you. ...... So, my question is: Is there a workaround for getting the Page Per Person report for more than one person at a time? I'd gladly have the report for all 1000 people in my database if...

I want myself as person 1 not my ex-husband. I imported a GEDCOM file where I was person 1, but in the iFamily file I am person 2. How do I permanently change this? Hi Nola I can understand why you do not want your ex to be numero uno any more but .... The Numeric Id of a person is simply a numeric...

Hi Marion 4. In your web page, when you click on the thumbnail of PDF file it will open in your web browser's default PDF viewer. PDF files work fine for me but they open in Safari, not the default PDF application. Safari may (or may not) apply its current font size and expand it to full scale - and...

Hi Alison

I'm having lots of fun developing iFamily and comments like yours make it so worthwhile.

Thanks

Keith

Originally posted by Alid62 Keith, Finding several things in 2.463 immensely useful, particularly those that let me check for missing events, sources etc. Some may not be so new but I've just found them so they are to me. I had been going to ask " now that I can track missing source citations via '...

Originally posted by SteveBUK

Keith

Thanks very much .. wonderful responsiveness as ever.

How do I put a Web Page in the Story panel? For example a page from Wikipedia? To copy a Web Page into the Story Pane Open the WikiPedia web page in Safari Press Cmd+A to select all Press Cmd+C to copy the selection (in this case the selection is all) In iFamily Right Click on the Story Pane Select...

Originally posted by SteveBUK

For example a page from Wikipedia?

iFamily for tiger displayed pdf files with a thumbnail, and files pasted a few months ago continue to display correctly. I just dragged a pdf displaying correctly in one persons pictures window to another person and it now displays a blurry pdf sign at the new location and correctly at the old loca...

If you have a Birth date of 01 May 1800 and you know that the person was Christened then you can enter a date like " After 01 May 1800" for the christening date and it will appear in chronological sequence after the Birth date. Similarly, " Before" dates appear before other events on...

[quote=z"plangez"]Is it possible to choose the design of the page you get when you open the iFamily? Instead of " family" i would like to have the possibility to choose " events" , " Pictures" or " story" etc. as the opening image. If it¥s not possible, maybe it could included in a later version? I...

Originally posted by plange Is it possible to choose the design of the page you get when you open the iFamily? Instead of " family" i would like to have the possibility to choose " events" , " Pictures" or " story" etc. as the opening image. If it¥s not possible, maybe it could included in a later...