Can you do genealogy on a Mac?

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Comment by Wilma Van Dee on November 2, 2009 at 9:04pm

I have used Reunion for a few years now and have never had a problem on my Mac. I used to use Family Tree Maker but they no longer support Mac so I had to find a new program. I tried several before finally settling on Reunion. I have not looked at any of the newer versions of Family Tree Maker since I am a die hard Mac user but when I first switched, Reunion had many more features. I have never had a problem with Reunion and would recommend it to anybody using a Mac.

Comment by Sue McCormick on October 31, 2009 at 9:18pm

There are other programs out there, and many of them are good ones. I'm not sure about cross-platform programs. I use Reunion for Macintosh. It accepts gedcom files.

I don't do my genealogy that way. When I get files from someone else, I open them in a separate Reunion file. I copy into my file only those entries which I know are not duplicates of files already there.

Now that I know more about how to do research, I will not add files from another researcher until I have done some studying and verifying on my own behalf.

I may add a person (flagged as not yet studied) because that person appears to be a link, or a clear extension of my family. But, until any person on my tree meets GPS (as best I understand it) the person is not considered truly part of my family tree.

I'm picky – at this point in time two persons on our tree meet GPS standards — my husband and myself. We're working on others.

Since my method may differ widely from others, I can't speak to Reunion's compatibility. But as I use it, I'm getting very good results on a Mac with this piece of software.

Sue