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Merging Databases with V1.214 These instructions are also included in the iFamily for Tiger Help There are 3 Merge functions in iFamily for Tiger , two of them are menu options under File - Compare and Merge . The third Merge function is as follows: Assumption 1) Assume that we have two iFamily for...

Originally posted by PaulM A possible little bug.. for me the 'Always copy pictures to /Pictures' preference defaults to being checked every time I start up iFamily - the other preferences stay the way they were set. Not a massive problem, but I like to keep my pictures in a particular location whe...

Originally posted by pmarsch

It would be helpful to be able to add more than one picture to a source. Many of my sources (ship passenger lists, marriage certificates, wills, etc.) are several pages.

Thanks!

Pete

Originally posted by dbgnvan Many source records will reference multiple people. For example a census record listing several names. I would like to enter that source once with a name that makes sense - like JoeDoe Head c 1930. So far so good - I do this now. What I would like as an a new feature, i...

Originally posted by Chris Knight Keith, Can you please add the possibilty of editing places information, including Lat. and Long? I want to add Google maps to my website data but I see no way of using iFamily to add geographical information ( I can do this via a text editor into the gedcom file or...

Kirk wrote:I am currently recording my great aunt, grandmother, and 104 year old grandfather. Is it possible to link a person to an audio file, such as my grandfather talking about his father?

Audio files are included in V1.213
Keith

What's New in V1.214 'Open With' menu option When you right click on an image the 'Open With' pop-up menu option now recognises aliased files. Compare and Merge from Another Model There is now an option in Compare and Merge to do the comparison using the person's ID or their Name. Filtered Person's...

Hi Keith, The 'Open With..' option for pictures added in V.1.212 doesn't seem to be working for me - the option is there in the menu but it doesn't expand out further to a list of applications. Am I missing something or is this feature still in the works? Thanks a lot, Paul M (on V1.213) Thanks Pau...

In V1.212 there is a new search field in the Events - Locations dialog. There is also a new Print button in this dialog - nothing fancy, just plain text. Keith Keith, I can't actually see a print button in this dialog in 1.212. Also there appears to be a bug - if I cancel an event entry I cannot th...

Originally posted by PaulM " nothing fancy" ? It's fantastic! Many, many thanks for this Keith! Another use I was thinking of for a search like this was that I could plot where my various ancestors lived on a street map (or maybe in Google Earth) and instant lists like this makes doing something li...

What's New in V1.213 Audio Files The Pictures tabview panel now accepts audio files of types aiff, aif, aifc, alaw, au, mp3, m4a, m4p, snd, ulaw, ulw and wav. Right click on the object and select 'Open With' to play the file. Filtered Persons Report Added a customisable report with filters for Name...

Originally posted by Lesley

Keith I love the ancestors and descendants diagrams ! .... You are a wizz!
I really do appreciate all your hard work on this programe ..

best regards lesley

- Events - the Events Locations option can almost do this I'd like to see an advanced version where you could search by sub-strings so that if you have an event (a birth for example) taking place in " 12 Madeup Street, Dundee" and another event of the same type taking place in " Dundee" you could p...

I'm in Version 1.211, but I noticed this on the earlier versions. If I select the Sources tab for an individual. Then select the last source (usually the one I have to delete, it might happen with others) then press the Remove Reference button, the source doesn't disappear. It is deleted, because i...

This is just an idea that might make a good enhancement. In TMG I used to have a sort date for an event. I have quite a lot of events, especially deaths that do not have a date, not even a guess. When I view them in the events Window they appear before the birth. If each event had a sort date I cou...

-This one is maybe a bit out there, but I wondered if there might be a way (outwith just having a source) to associate non-image files with an individual in the same visual way as PDFs and Images and launch them in an external application. I have some sources which are large text files, Word docume...

- A Full or Selected Individuals Database report - Just like the Ancestors report but for everyone or a list of selected individuals from the database. The existing reports are superb, exactly what I was looking for but I would also like to be able to pass some non-computer literate relatives a com...

- There is already a right-click option " Display PDF" for PDFs. I'd like to see the same functionality for launching images in Preview or another application. Sometimes I want to zoom in on an image further than the level available within iFamily or I just want to be able to see the whole image fu...

- Image Names: When you attach an image to an entry, give it a new title and then copy it to another entry it would be nice to have a preference that would allow you to retain the Title used on the entry you're copying the image from rather than the title defaulting back to the file name - as an ex...

Originally posted by PaulM Hi folks, Firstly, must thank Keith for all the amazing work being done here! iFamily is the third Mac genealogy program I've used and is the first I've really felt totally comfortable with - I switched over in an afternoon after using my last program for about a year! So...

I have noticed when in the source - edit dialog that if you press the minus button it deletes the current source. If the source has citations, it prompts first before deleting. When it has no citations it just deletes it, no questions asked. Would it be an idea to have a prompt if there are no cita...

Whats New in V1.212 Merging Two Models If two (or more) databases are open you can now copy a Selected Person from one model to be a child, spouse or parent of the Focal Person in another model as follows: 1. Open two (or more) databases. 2. Right click on a 'ghost box' in the target and select the...

BACKGROUND I collect a lot of census information from the UK census. I make a census record a source as in most cases it references many people. In some instances I also capture an image of the original census entry as I need to reference back to them. I copy the transcription to the image and it's...

What's New in V1.211

Bug fixed
Corrected the problem with cascaded dialogs for Event -> Source -> Picture Trancription that was reported by Kevin P.
Also added two new fields in the Source dialog to display the Picture's Notes and Transcription.

Keith

What's New in V1.210 Import from Gedcom File Enhanced error messages for Gedcom import. Various minor changes to Gedcom import to handle LDS information and non-conforming tags from other applications. Context Diagram Minor improvements to the display of the context diagram and to navigation when u...

Hi Keith do the images need to be stored in a certain place ? ie when I load from iPhoto they behave well and you can enlarge using transcribe feature but I have loaded some from various folders that I have and also from cds of images and then I do have the alias in the iPhoto folder but can't then...

Suggestion 1. I am downloading copies of the images of any passenger list, BMD, census etc. I am keeping these in a specific directory on my computer and would like the Perferences to allow me to indicate this. Suggestion 2. I would also like the option for iFamily to keep a copy of the image vs. t...

When I was editing a source record ( Sources Edit ) I noticed that the picture ( a jpeg of a passenger list ) was no longer linked because I had moved the directory were I keep these documents. So I just re added the file from the new directory. Then the program hung. I could use the keyboard in a ...

Originally posted by dbgnvan

I run with a iMac / intel and 1680 x 1020 screen ( 20 inch ). So far no problems at all. In fact I am really liking it!

Originally posted by annemac

Hi Keith

Thanks for taking my request and thoughts on board, look forward to seeing the new version.

Cheers

Anne