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iFamily for Leopard is a genealogy application for those who want to get the most out of their investment in the latest Apple Mac technology.
iFamily for Leopard is for people who think differently. Some Features:
- Fast data entry and navigation.
- Imports and exports Gedcom files.
- A uncrippled demo except for export to Gedcom.
- Free updates.
Version 2.463: - Context Diagram
- There are now 11 options for displaying the text for each person in the Context Diagram:
Full Name,
First and Last Name,
Title/Occupation,
Birth and Death Info,
Marriages,
Children,
Migration Events,
Religious Events,
Burial/Cremation,
Cause of Death and
Last Change date.
The chosen option will now remain in force until it is changed by the user and it is also saved as a User Preference and will be used as the default the next time you start iFamily. This means that if you are working on a particular topic (e.g. Migration) then the display will remain the same whilst you navigate or promote people to be the Focal Person. The text options are displayed at the top of the Preferences Panel. The "short-cut" is to use the scroll wheel/ball over any person in the Context Diagram.
Adding New Parents and Children
- Changed the warning messages to be less convoluted and more easily understood.
Individual's Pane
- Reactivated the Last Change field. The "Last Change" label now acts as a mouse-over button to display additional information on change dates. Please note that timestamping of changes has been reactivated in V2.463 for all database objects.
- Added an "Also Known As" (AKA) field to the individual's pane. At the moment this field is not included in any reports.
People Index
- Changed the Help dialog for the People Index so that the Close button is visible on a small screen.
Prune Minor Dynasties
- Corrected an (occasional) error that occurred after closing the Prune Minor Dynasties dialog.
Event Subtypes Dialog
- Corrected the Event Subtypes dialog (Ages column) for use on OSX 10.4
- Added "Generate CSV File" that generates a CSV file and opens it in the default spreadsheet application. Each column of the spreadsheet represents a decade, e.g. 1880 to 1889. The aim of this report is to simplify the identification of missing events, especially missing Census events. To see the same type of Event Timelines for any one individual you can use the new "Timeline" button in the Events pane.
Events With No Source References
- Added a new menu option Events -> Events with No Source References.
Event Places Dialog
- Enhanced the "Move Places to Notes" function so that multiple Places can be selected in the upper table and moved ot once. This can save considerable time when correcting errors that were imported into iFamily from FTM Gedcom files for FACT records _FA1, _FA2, ...
- Added "Move Places to Event Names". Particularly useful for batch editing after importing non-conforming FACT records from a Gedcom file created by FTM V16.0.350.
Events Pane
- Added a "Timeline" button that displays a personal timeline of events with a column for each decade. This timeline will also be displayed when you click on the "Other Events" label in the Individual's pane.
Sources Add/Edit Dialog
- Added "Merge Duplicate Sources" button which combines all duplicate Sources and reassigns the attached Source References (Citations) to the combined record.
- Added a button to display full details, and to permit editing of, Source References (Citations) that are listed in the where-used table in the bottom RH corner of the Sources Add/Edit dialog.
- Labels for Source Notes. You can now have any number of sets of labels for the Source Notes - accessed via a pop-up menu. The sets of labels for the Source Notes field are now saved for reuse in subsequent iFamily sessions. The labels are now inserted at the current cursor position rather than always at the start of the Source Notes field. There will be many cases where the text that you copy and paste from a census record or a marriage certificate are already labelled and you will probably not need to insert labels, but it is there if you need it. Also, if you are saving images of the census pages or certificates, then you may find it is better not to duplicate the same content of the Source too often.
Active Sources
- The Active Source function has been (subtly) enhanced by adding check boxes for the Page Refs and Topic and the dialog is slightly different depending of whether the source reference is for a Person, Event or Picture.
- When you right click on a child in the Family pane you now have a choice of adding a Source Reference (citation) to the Child, his/her Birth Event or Death Event.
Sources -> Review Source References Dialog
- Added a Print button to generate a Rich Text Format (RTF) file..
Copy and Paste from the Pictures Pane onto the Context Diagram
- Enhanced the copy/paste of pictures from the Pictures pane onto people in the Context Diagram include pasting the picture's Title, Date and Notes. This now allows you to select a new Focal Person and to copy/paste full data about pictures to grandchildren, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc of the Focal Person. There is no change for Drag/Drop of Pictures from the Pictures pane onto people in the Context diagram which only allows you to drop pictures onto people who were visible in the Context Diagram when the drag started.
Pictures and Other Media - Source References
- Enhanced the Pictures Add/Edit dialog to enable creation of a Source Reference from a Source to a Picture/Media object.
Thumbnails for PDF files
- PDF files now (once again) use the same thumbnail as is displayed in Finder.
Database Change Report
- Added a report of changes made to the database - for a user specified period of days before now.
Ancestors and Descendants Reports
- The One Line per Person option now includes marriage dates in the report.
HTML Web Page Generation
- Added a de-personalise option in addition to the existing Exclude Living and Recently Deceased options.
Gedcom Load and Gedcom Export
- Improved import for Source Repository records, same gender marriages and alias file names for multimedia objects.
- Added code to handle the special case of Personal Ancestral File (PAF) V2.31 LDS SLGC data as sub-records of FAM.CHIL records. iFamily now also handles the LDS Status codes in PAF V2.31 Gedcom files. PAF V2.31 was issued 24 September, 1994 whereas the Gedcom 5.5 Standard was not issued until 2 Jan 1996.
- Added handling of Ancestry.com (FTM) WFT Est Dates and handling of REPO notes by reference.
- Improved export of Cause of Death, and Source Repository records.
Mac OS X 10.4 or later, a large display (17"+) and a mouse with more than one button and a scroll-wheel/ball. For databases with more than 5000 people OSX 10.5 (Leopard) is recommended.
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| iFamily for Leopard User Reviews (21 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Jun 30 2008 |
DBELL I love iFamily! The program takes full advantage of my iMac's large screen. Its context diagram shows up to 6 ancestor generations for an individual, plus spouse/partner and children, and details below, all on a single screen. Easy imports/exports of GEDCOM files. Powerful comparison features. Great PDF/RFT reports. Neat HTML. I could go on and on. Perhaps the best thing about iFamily is that the developer, Keith Wilson, personally answers all support questions. Sometimes within minutes! And he is constantly developing new features, included in the very reasonable initial price. He's just released ver 2.402 iFamily for Leopard with totally cool sibling "card" features. I'm an IT professional. I know how hard it is to create quality software and support it. iFamily is 5 STARS on all counts.
(Version 2.398) | |
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 | May 9 2008 |
MINOUMI The developer (Keith Wilson) is quite correct when he says that iFamily creates HTML web pages like no other genealogy application. This feature was crucial for me and I am very satisfied with the results. iFamily is a no bells and whistles software. It simply does the job efficiently. I have tried several Mac genealogy demo applications and iFamily came out as the best for my needs. And the price is right!
(Version 2.387) | |
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| May 7 2008 |
FUNKBOY This program looks promising. However, why does it need to launch an installer? I would be much more inclined to install it if I could just drag and drop the program into my Applications folder - I do not understand why this program would need to have me enter my password to install files somewhere. Could you please explain? Otherwise, the ability to import files from old databases (GEDCOM, for instance) could be very useful for people still stuck on other or older programs.
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 | May 24 2008 |
KEITH WILSON Apple's preferred method of installing software is now to use an Installer rather than dragging the application (package) into the Applications folder. | |
| Mar 31 2008 |
WILLIAM25 I think iFamilyforTiger is a terrific piece of genealogy software and well worth the price. The developer is constantly improving this application and he is quick to respond to questions, etc. I have been using this software for 6 months.
(Version 2.378) | |
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| Mar 27 2008 |
KEITH WILSON iFamily creates HTML web pages like no other genealogy application, PC or Mac. And they look stunning. Whilst the user can interactively designs and create the web pages a preview of the web pages is instantly updated within a web browser that is embedded within iFamily. The whole process of web page design is done by point and click - it's quick and and it's slick. The web page for each person can include a context diagram for each person that is created on-the-fly or it can display relationships in tabular form. All names and places are hyper-linked, even those in the diagrams. For each person the user can opt to display a context diagram, images, parents, grandparents, greatgrandparents, children, grandchildren, a complete events list with notes, personal notes, comments and source references. A feature that is not available in other genealogy applications is the ability to hyper-link event place names to Google Maps web pages. iFamily generates web pages fast - a complete set of web pages for 56,000 people can be generated in 5 minutes.
(Version 2.372) | |
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| Feb 18 2008 |
KEITH WILSON iFamily for Tiger allows the user to create very large charts with up to 99 generations of ancestors or descendants, This is equivalent to a time span of about 2000 years. The charts may be horizontal, top-down bottom up, they may be cascaded or centered. They may include images and full notes. The iFamily charts are live rather than static. Any change made to a database field elsewhere in iFamily is immediately displayed in the current chart. Conversely, any change to data in a chart is immediately saved into the database. There are many customisation options in the iFamily Ancestors and Descendants charts, The most frequently used customisation options are immediately available on the toolbar; others are accessible by activating the Customise Defaults floating panel. When any customisation option is clicked then the chart is immediately re-displayed to show the effect of that customisation. All charts may be directly saved to a PDF file that can be emailed to and read on any computer, PC, Mac, Linux, Unix, ... | |
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| Feb 14 2008 |
IGAL27 This program is so-so. The interface looks clean, but rather limited. With Reunion, I can create a huge chart of just about all the family (and modify it as I wish and export it in editable formats) - something which I've yet to find in any other genealogy application, including this one.
(Version 2.341) | |
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| Feb 17 2008 |
KEITH WILSON The limits for generating charts in Reunion and in iFamily for Tiger, by coincidence, are the same - 99 generations - which represents about a time span of about 2000 years. | |
| Sep 14 2007 |
TOAD Neat program, but does it export web pages?
(Version 2.252) | |
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| Jul 29 2007 |
GUY HOLMES Its a great program - I have been using iFamily for over a year now, having come to it from the PC world, and dabbled with various oher Mac programs such as Reunion and MacFamilyTree. Ended up using windows via BootCamp until I stumbled upon a fairly early version of iFamily. I've never found a program so dynamic in development - New versions come along every couple of weeks, each adding significant improvments to functionality, while the stability remains excellent. The user interface, the general experience and the intuitive way of working with iFamily make this (for me) the best genealogy program I have used - Mac or PC
(Version 2.235) | |
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| Jul 10 2007 |
RBALLAL I did a fair amount of evaluating the various genealogy programs before settling on this program. I am very pleased with the product. The program is generally very intuitive to use, is extremely stable, and there are many different ways of viewing within, importing, and exporting. The developer is continuously working on improvements and is responsive to suggestions and ideas. The forum on the web site is an opportunity to post questions and look for answers. I am very pleased. | |
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