With the exception of Family Tree Maker for Mac 2, all of the actively developed Mac genealogy apps have demos that you can download and try out. What Mac Genealogy Software Do I Recommend?įor years, when people have asked me, I inevitably send them links to the major Mac genealogy software developers and tell them to download the demos and try each of them out. There is an article over at Genealogy Tools, What Genealogy Software Do We Recommend? that you should check out if you get a chance. The information below is nearly three years out of date (as of February 2015), and a new article/guide will be posted shortly. The Place Advisor coverage now covers the entire world down to, and including, the city, town, and village level. In Version 1.7 Build 2, you can now attach latitude and longitude to any address in your genealogy file.Ī “Visit” event has been added to individuals and families that can map travels. CAn be for: an individual, a family and its individuals, or all individual and family records listed in the current front window.Īs noted, for the mapping feature to work fully, you need to have latitude and longitude coordinates for places and events. Can be the entire world or select continents.Ģ) “Events Places for Windows Records” – will draw a map with pins for all events that occurred at an address or place with known latitude and longitude. I’m going to list highlights of the changes, but if you want to read the full release notes, please see the GEDitCOM II Release Notes ()Ĭhanges and Updates in GEDitCOM II Version 1.7 Build 2ġ) “Places in This File” – will generate a map with pins for all of the places listed in place records that have a known bounding box. Fortunately, no serious bugs are know in version 1.7, but some good ideas came in and this upgrade responds to some of them. Whenever a new version comes out (such as Version 1.7) some features do not make it or some great ideas arise due to user feedback on using that version. This is another major update to GEDitCOM II that follows Version 1.7 (released at the start of last month), and the developer notes: Third party scripts/add-ons - for GEDitCOM II.This week, GEDitCOM II was upgraded to GEDitCOM II version 1.7, Build 2 (14 March 2012).^ GEDitCOM II Interfaces, Supported languages: E=English, Fr=French, Sp=Spanish, P=Portuguese, Fi=Finnish, Sw=Swedish.^ GEDitCOM II Release Notes, Version 2.0 (released 17 August 2014).^ MacAttack,, By Allison Stacy, Third-party review (of GEDitCOM, not GEDitCOM II), Family Tree Magazine.^ Journal of Online Genealogy - Volume 3, Number 5, December 1998 - Software Trends - GEDitCOM 1.0 for the Power Macintosh, By John Nairn Wayback Archive.^ "Ancestry® | Ahnenforschung, Stammbaum und Familiengeschichte".^ "GEDitCOM II AppleScripting Tutorials".^ GEDitCOM Version History, Wayback Archive.GEDitCOM II supports International Localization.Supported languages: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Finnish, Swedish. The most significant changes were the introduction of "Extensions" (or GEDitCOM II plug ins), dynamic editing in trees, and redesigned help window. GEDitCOM v1.0 was released 7 December 1998, with the final version 3.82 released on 7 June 2009 which runs on MacOS 8.1 or newer. GEDitCOM II v1.0 was released 7 June 2009 and was a complete rewrite of GEDitCOM 3.82 as a universal binary Cocoa-based application, which runs under OS X 10.4 and higher. GEDitCOM has native support of GEDCOM files, and is customizable and extensible through Applescript, Python, or Ruby. It includes options for users to produce charts depicting family relationships and web pages for publishing family history online. GEDitCOM is genealogy software for the Mac OS X that provides methods to input, manipulate, and view information about a family history.
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