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New Features in Reunion 9: New Features in Reunion 9 Maximising your family history on a Macintosh
What’s New in Reunion 9!: What’s New in Reunion 9! System requirements for Reunion 9
What’s New in Reunion 9!
Where can I get Reunion?
Is there a Demo?
System requirements – Reunion 9: System requirements – Reunion 9 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
What’s New in Reunion 9!: What’s New in Reunion 9! New...
Pod cards for your iPod
Treetops
Last Names list
Spell checking
What’s New in Reunion 9!: What’s New in Reunion 9! 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.
What’s New in Reunion 9!: What’s New in Reunion 9! Tree tops
Treetops are the earliest known ancestors of a person.
What’s New in Reunion 9!: What’s New in Reunion 9! Last Names List
includes all unique last names (surnames) in your family file.
provides an overall snapshot of your research and a handy report to show others your surnames of interest.
What’s New in Reunion 9!: What’s New in Reunion 9! Spell Checking
Uses the built-in Mac OS X spell checking features
Cursor in editable field (eg. note or event field) enable/disable spelling
What’s New in Reunion 9!: What’s New in Reunion 9! More...
Family card enhancements
Index and list enhancements
Multimedia
Slideshows
Toolbars on the family card
Charts
Register report enhancements
What’s new in Reunion 9!: What’s new in Reunion 9! Family Card enhancements...
Family card size limited only by size of screen
Option to colourise buttons by sex
Child status colour is applied to shadows to make it more conspicuous
What’s New in Reunion 9!: What’s New in Reunion 9! Family Card enhancements...
Option to display parents and children in a list with resizeable, draggable and optional fields
Resizable section for child buttons/list
Flags can be checked/unchecked directly on card
Note fields are scrollable
What’s New in Reunion 9!: What’s New in Reunion 9! Family Card enhancements...
Control-click for a popup menu showing siblings, spouses, children, treetops, etc
Sibling popup menus enhanced: direct lines, half-siblings, icons indicating sex, whether sibling has children
Control-click to change child status
What’s New in Reunion 9!: What’s New in Reunion 9! Index and List enhancements...
Data (names, dates, places, etc) can be edited directly in lists
Lists (such as the Index, Source List, Found List) can stay open
Search box to find people
Click column titles to sort by column
Drag columns to change order
What’s new in Reunion 9!: What’s new in Reunion 9! Multimedia...
Thumbnail view of multimedia items
New Features in Reunion 9!: New Features in Reunion 9! Multimedia and Source Documentation
To cite a source, you only need to record the details about the source (even scans or pictures of the original documents) at one time. Can include any source on any record, in any data entry field as many times as you want
What’s New in Reunion 9!: What’s New in Reunion 9! Multimedia...
Support of more file formats: PDF, MS Word docs, RTF, Test
Support for more audio file formats: AAC, AU
Support for BMP images
Support for video formats: MOV, MP4, and AVI
What’s New in Reunion 9!: What’s New in Reunion 9! Multimedia...
Multimedia files can be grouped into albums
Rotate items in 90 degree increments
Options to designate items as “sensitive”
Drag and drop to another person on another family card
New Features in Reunion 9!: New Features in Reunion 9! Slideshows..
Create slideshows with custom transitions, music, timing, image size, caption content
New Features in Reunion 9!: New Features in Reunion 9! 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
New Features in Reunion 9!: New Features in Reunion 9! Charts
Soft shadows can be applied to boxes, bars, captions and pictures
Ancestor chart - easier to change orientation to bottom-top
New Features in Reunion 9!: New Features in Reunion 9! Register Reports enhancements..
Spouses in bold
Option to include birth and death dates for children
Option to include last name for children
New Features in Reunion 9!: New Features in Reunion 9! Manual....
Easy to use, comprehensive electronic manual
Search box now in the tool bar
Command-click shortcut opens linked page in new window
System requirements - Reunion: 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
Where can I get Reunion? : 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
Where can I get Reunion? : 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)
Where can I get Reunion? : 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 and
download direct from the website
Is there a Demo? : 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
What’s New in Reunion 9! : What’s New in Reunion 9!
Any questions??