3/21/2023 0 Comments Macfamilytree 8 savingBesides Reunion and MacFamilyTree ( Mac App Store), there’s Heredis (which is 35% off through June 9 – $38.99 instead of $59.99 – on their site and in the Mac App Store) and GEDitCOM II (software which has some very unique features that I like, but needs a major overhaul to make it competitive with these others). I should just add that I’m very happy that there are now several good options for genealogy software for the Mac. If I do end up switching, I’ll try to explain how I moved everything over. When I find the time to take a look in depth at MacFamilyTree 7, I will try to post a review here. Here’s a look at the new version of MacFamilyTree in a video that Synium released: I don’t know if MacFamilyTree 7 has a similar feature or not, but that’s one of the things I will be taking a look at when I look at the software. This might not seem like a major feature, but when you use it extensively to attach photos of people to their records, it’s hard to switch to a program that doesn’t offer that (and doesn’t import the cropped images I’ve already set up). For example, if you have a family portrait with ten family members in it, and it is the only photo you have for all the people, you can select out the faces from the one photo for each family member. Reunion has a very nice feature that allows you have one image, and cut out the faces of multiple people for use in your family tree. In the past, my biggest problem in switching programs was the handling of images. There are a lots of nice features of MacFamilyTree. Research Assistant feature in MacFamilyTree 7 In this case, Synium Software, the makers of MacFamilyTree, are allowing anyone to get the upgrade pricing for the first two months, which I think is quite generous (sometimes companies only offer the upgrade pricing for a week). To get around this problem, some software companies release a new version of their program on the App Store as a separate program, and then reduce the price for everyone for a limited time. When you buy an application from the App Store, you own it forever. It’s a strange quirk of the Mac App Store that in essence companies cannot really offer upgrade pricing to their existing users. It’s also worth mentioning because they are offering upgrade pricing ($29.95 instead of $59.99) to everyone who buys it in the Mac App Store through July 31. Yesterday MacFamilyTree received a major update, to version 7, so I thought it was worth mentioning again.
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