Features
Top 20 Reasons to Buy Reunion
- Easy to enter your family information. Reunion lets you store every scrap of information: names, dates, places, facts, tidbits, plenty of room for notes, memos, custom fields, contact information, marital status, and research logs. (Click to magnify.)
- Add pictures and movies. Digitize your memories (old photos, birth certificates, wills, maps, movies, sound recordings, etc.) and link them to people, families, and source records. You can link multiple multimedia items to a single record, or one multimedia item to multiple records. Reunion lets you display, magnify, and reduce images on screen. It's easy to include pictures in your charts, reports, and Web output. Include a complete description and comments for each item if you like. Create customized slideshows. Perfect for family reunions! (Click to magnify.)
- Take it with you! - ReunionTouch is our mobile app for the iPad and iPhone. Make changes, corrections, and updates while you're on the go and automatically sync with your family file on the Mac. (ReunionTouch is sold separately, on the App Store for your device.)
- Create large, graphic charts including descendant charts and ancestor charts (up to 99 generations), fan charts, bowtie charts, and timeline charts. Reunion provides complete on-screen editing of color, font, font size, shadow, border, connecting lines, and captions. Move boxes or branches on-screen, by clicking-and-dragging. Automatically change chart orientation; including top-to-bottom, left-to-right, and waterfall models. Zoom out to give you the big picture of the entire chart. (Click to magnify.)
- Share stuff on the web. Reunion automatically builds reports that you can upload to your web site to share with others. The reports are optimized for whatever device is viewing them (iPhone, iPad, desktop computer, laptop, etc.). All the necessary files, images, and graphics are generated and linked for you inside one convenient folder for uploading. Choose from many elegant designs. Click here to see published examples from Reunion users.)
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- Easy to find people. Quickly find people by name. Or, perform advanced multiple-criteria searches. For example, you could search for "all males born before 1800 in Boston" or "all couples married in Sacramento with adopted children."
- Search the web for records. Pick any person and Reunion will help you to search genealogical resources on the web (like FamilyLink, FamilySearch, Ancestry.com, etc.).
- See places on a map. Reunion integrates with Google Maps to pinpoint your place entries and draw maps, for example: showing the birth, residences, and death places of a person.
- Handy dates. You can enter dates as they might be spoken, like a death date as "40 years 3 months 2 days after birth." Reunion shows the weekday for the birth, death, or marriage date, the age at marriage, the current age or life span of a person, and the length of marriage. Also, you can choose from 16 different formats for the display of dates.
- Identify relationships. Reunion tells you, at a glance, how people are related to you (or anyone in your family file) and automatically figures out relationships as you add new people. Create custom lists of relatives too. For example, a list of all your removed cousins or a list of all descendants. Find the relationship between any two people in your records and create a chart showing the direct-line between the two people; also identify the common ancestor.
- Easy to climb the tree. Use the "tree view" and click to navigate up or down the tree. Always know where you are in the family file. (Click to magnify.)
- Dozens of reports and lists. Everything from simple lists to comprehensive books. Plenty of ways to see, review, share, and print your information. To see a book example, click here.
- Graphic forms. Print attractive family group sheets, person sheets, questionnaires, and blank forms. These are great for gathering data from relatives. Reunion lets you print forms for any group of people in your file, for example a questionnaire for all your first cousins.
- Birthday and Anniversary reminders. Have Reunion remind you of upcoming special events in your family. Create easy-to-customize lists of events.
- Import/export. Full GEDCOM import/export lets you transfer data to Reunion without re-typing. You can exchange data with users of other genealogy software (Windows or Mac). If you've been collecting information in FileMaker or some other database program, Reunion also features a text file import, to help you bring the data into Reunion.
- Flexibility. Reunion makes it easy to work with "subsets" of your family file. For example, create a tree chart for "direct lines only," make a book with just Dad's side of the family, or publish a web report with only Mom's ancestors.
- Cascading Pedigree Charts. These are a series of graphic pedigree charts, 4- or 5-generations per page, that are cross-referenced with continuation numbers.
- Autocomplete instantly recalls the most frequently used surnames and given names you've entered, helping you avoid typing the same names over and over. Similarly, Reunion tracks and lists your places, making it easy to be consistent with your entries.
- Source documentation. Document the sources of your information using "shared" source records. For example, if you wish to cite a source, you only need to record details about the source one time. Information about the source (the library, the book, the microfilm, the date, the quality of the data, even scans or pictures of original documents) can be entered into a single source record, and you can cite this source on any record, in any data entry field, as many times as you want. You have the option to include sources in reports.
- Easy to get help. Reunion includes an easy to use, easy to search, manual — it's part of the app! No matter where you are in Reunion, a Help button appears that will take you instantly to the right spot in the manual. We can help you by e-mail and live-chat. And, don't forget our online community, ReunionTalk, comprising thousands of Reunion users.
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