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Reunion for Max!

Maximising your family history on a Macintosh

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Reunion for Max!

• What is Reunion?• Features - Top 20 reasons to use Reunion• Where can I get Reunion?• Is there a Demo?• System requirements• Like to know more?

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What is Reunion?

• Reunion is a genealogy software program - a “family tree program” for the Macintosh

• Helps you document, store and display information about your family - 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

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What is Reunion?

• Makes it easy to publish your family tree information even if you want to share it -

on the web

on a CD or

carry it on your iPod

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What is Reunion?

• You can automatically create common genealogy reports and charts -ancestor, descendant, family history, as well as birthday calendars, mailing lists, questionnaires, indexes, and other lists

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What is Reunion?

• Reunion even creates slideshows, 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. Wallcharts for family reunions are one of its specialities

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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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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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Creates large graphic pedigree and descendant tree charts, fan charts and timeline charts

• Automatically change chartorientation

• Including top-to-bottom, left-to-right, and waterfall models

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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 multimediaitems to a single record, or one multimedia item to multiple records

• Display, magnify, and reduce images on screen

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Pictures, videos, and sounds

• Digitise your memories (such as photos, certificates, maps, movies, sound recordings) and link to people and families

• Easy to include images in your charts, reports, and Web output

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Pod cards

• Take information with you in a very portable format - in your iPod providing you with a snapshot

• Pod cards provide the ability to take portions of your family file with you in a very portable format in your iPod (up to 950 people in each). Uses "Notes" capability in Apple's iPod.

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Pictures, videos, and sounds

• Create slideshows with custom transitions, music, timing, image size, caption content

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Web output

• Reunion helps you share yourinformation 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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Web output

• Able to use the web outputto share information easily with Mac or Windows users, without the necessity of having Reunion, by burning to a CD and using a web browser

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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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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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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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Easy to find information

• Including multiple-criteria searches

• For example, you could search for “all males bornin South Australiabefore 1880”

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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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Wide variety of reports and custom lists

• Automatically opened in your word processor and fully formatted with page numbers, page breaks, headers, superscript reference note citations, columns, etc

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Birthday and Anniversary lists

• Create easy-to-customise lists of events eg. list people whose birth day is ”23 May”

• 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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Relationship calculator

• Tells you the relationshipbetween any two peoplein your records and the common ancestor

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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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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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Import and export

• Full Gedcom import and export let 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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Flexibility

• Reunion lets you create charts and reports for “subsets” of your family file

• For example, you can make a tree chart or export a Gedcomfile for “direct lines only”

• Able to mark and unmark sets and individuals within sets to create customised reports and charts

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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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Speed Names

• Instantly recalls the last 2,000 places and surnames you’ve entered, helping you to avoid typing the same place name or surname over and over

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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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Source Documentation

• Document the sources of your information using “shared” source records

• To cite a source, you only

need to record the detailsabout the source (even scans or pictures of theoriginal documents) at one time. Can include any source on any record,in any data entry field as many times as you want

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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

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System requirements - Reunion

The newest version of Reunion was released in March 2007

• This new version of Reunion has full native support for Intel and PPC Macintosh computers.

• To use Reunion 9, you will need Mac OS X 10.3.9 or newer

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Where can I get Reunion?

Reunion 9 is available in:

• Full version

• Upgrade version - if you are upgrading from previous versions 5, 6, 7 and 8

• Demo version

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Where can I get Reunion?

Where can I purchase the Full version?

Available from VicGUM Inc for purchase online for credit card purchases or by cheque or mail www.vicgum.asn.au

• CD $187.00 AUD plus shipping and handling ($2.00 AUD)

OR directly from Leister Productions www.leisterpro.com

• Download $99.95 US

• CD $99.95 US plus shipping and handling ($10 US overseas)

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Where can I get Reunion?

Where can I purchase the Upgrade?

To use the upgrade version, you must own a previous version of Reunion. The Reunion upgrade is only available directly from Leister Productions in the US - download or CD

• CD $59.95 US plus shipping and handling ($10 US overseas)

• Download $59.95 US

Installation is simple and easy!

Already upgraded?Check for the latest version - Reunion 9.04 anddownload direct from the website

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Is there a Demo?

Yes! Demo mode is available

Download directly from Leister Productions

Limitations of the Demo• Only 50 people can be entered• Import/Export is disabled• Charts and slideshows can’t be saved• Printed output will be watermarked

Purchase a licence to unlock the full version

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Like to know more?

What’s New in Reunion 9 Find out more about the new features of this great family history program

When: Sunday 3rd June 2007 2.00pm

Where: Mt Waverley Community Centre

Cost: No charge

More details at www.vicgum.asn.au

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Reunion for Max!

• What is Reunion?• Features - Top 20 reasons to use Reunion• Where can I get Reunion?• Is there a Demo?• System requirements• Like to know more?

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Reunion for Max!

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