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Reunion - 9.01

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All Time:	(4.4)
Version 9.01:	(5.0)
Selected Version:	9.01
Release Date:	2007-03-06
License:	Update
Downloads (version 9.01):	970
Downloads (all versions):	57,176
Price:	$99.00 new $59.95 upgrade

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Product Description:

Reunion is a genealogy software program -- a "family tree program" -- for the Macintosh. Reunion received the highest rating for genealogy software in MacWorld, MacAddict, and Mac Home Journal magazines. Reunion helps you to document, store, and display information about your family -- your ancestors, descendants, cousins, etc. It records names, dates, places, facts, plenty of notes, sources of information, pictures, sounds, and videos. It shows family relationships in an elegant, graphic form -- people and families are linked in an easy-to-understand fashion. Reunion makes it easy to publish your family tree information -- even if you want to share it on the Web. You can automatically create common genealogy reports, charts, and forms, as well as birthday calendars, mailing lists, questionnaires, indexes, and other lists. Reunion even 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 colors. Wall charts are one of its specialties.

What's new in this version:

Upgrading Family Files - fixed a problem where the family file conversion got hung/stopped in some cases.
Upgrading Family Files - fixed a problem where bold text in note field would become bold to the end of the field. (OS X 10.3.9 only).
View, Flags - fixed crash when displaying more than 3 flags in a view.
Add Source popup menu in Edit Person / Events - citations added with Add Source popup (when choosing New) are now properly added to citations list.
Register and Ahnentafel reports - fixed problem where RTF reports (to MS Word, TextEdit, etc.) would not finish. Eliminated nonsense characters that were output when reporting "never married."
Privacy Filter - fixed crash when creating reports using privacy filtering.
Family Card - fixed a navigation delay when preferred pictures are turned off.
Family Card - when a missing preferred picture is encountered and found, the new path will be retained.
Multimedia - fixed problem where very small images appeared on family card and in Multimedia window.
Edit Person / Facts - Initial Caps btn now works properly.
Charts - added refresh after choosing Tree -> Move Boxes off Page Breaks to properly place the frame.
Multimedia, Add Item button - PICT files no longer appear disabled in the File -> Open window.
Bookmarks - you can now add a bookmark (by drag and drop) when bookmarks are "off" as per manual.
Source List, Edit Source windows - enabled Min/Max buttons.
Find Anything - fixed problems with searches for "Age at First Marriage" and "Age at First Child."
Replace window - changed name of button from Cancel to Close.
Place List - fixed a problem with editing place names in the Place List window and entering extended characters.
Change Case / Uppercase button / Sorting - won't sort on Prefix words with less than x letters
Web Family Cards* - improved formatting of single people in CSS output.
Note: in order to get the fix for Web Family Cards you must Quit Reunion, delete your ~/Library/Application Support/Reunion folder, and restart Reunion.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.0
Mac OS X 10.1
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS Classic

Feedback Summary:

Version 9.01:
Overall Rating:	(5.0)	Features:	(5.0)	Support:	(5.0)
Ease of Use:	(4.5)	Quality / Stability:	(5.0)	Price:	(4.5)

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Long-time user - Version: 9.0b, 10/14/2009 06:38AM PST

rjc70

I'm a long-time user of Reunion…I started over 10 years ago, having used FTM (blech!) before that. I have a fairly large (50,000+) tree, the vast majority of which was manually entered, with lots of notes & sources. What I love of about Reunion is the ease and speed of entering people & data. Once you learn the shorthand codes, it's extremely quick. I've often said that Reunion was perhaps the best program — of any kind — that I use… mostly in terms of speed and stability: it just *works*. My favorite features include the find and list functions and the ability to save marked sets of individuals. Although a few other apps have now surpassed it in my eye (InDesign & Illustrator, e.g.), I still think Reunion ranks high.

That being said, there are a couple drawbacks, already mentioned in previous reviews. The web export is too limited in flexibility. It might have been fine years ago, but it's not sophisticated enough for today. I've used other programs to export to web and now use TNG exclusively for my online database. Charting in Reunion is worse. I've never used it successfully. If I need a chart, which is seldom anyway, I'll make it in OmniGraffle or Illustrator.

The last upgrade I've purchased was version 8. I tried out version 9, but found no compelling reason to upgrade. I'll reconsider if they improve charts & web export.

Overall, though, I still love the program and would recommend it to anyone serious about their genealogy and who won't be needing what Reunion doesn't do as well.

Careful what you read - Version: 9.0b, 10/13/2009 02:46PM PST

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merwinjk

Some of these poor reviews here must be agenda-driven. I've been a Reunion customer for around eight years and version 9 is much better than the earlier versions. Have also looked at and evaluated alternative genealogy software and none are really in the same league, IMHO. Support is excellent and you don't need to worry about patch-per-week updates, either.

Lastly, it's not a Windows port as it was never developed for that platform. I still think Reunion is the gold standard for genealogy software.

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Careful what you read

Expensive, limited features, good documentation - Version: 9.09, 6/25/2009 04:46AM PST

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RayBrason

I have not bought the full version but I've tried the demo for a few days. It looks and behaves more like a windows application than a mac application. Also, it does not offer any good charts and the web export is really really bad. Even 1995 it would have been sub-par. <b>99 US$ is way to much for this app.</b>

Looking at the other genealogy options, I've looked at iFamily and finally went for MacFamilyTree a few days ago (see my review on the MacFamilyTree page, excellent application).