Reunion 10 for the Mac
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1. Reunion for the Mac February 2013 Note The main text of this instruction is lifted from the Reunion User s Manual the icon at the top of your Reunion Family File I have added a few of my own words here and there pb Two Sets of Parents Adoption and multiple marriages can result in the acquisition of an additional set of parents fora child in your database As would Grandparents raising a baby of their own child Lots of scenarios can challenge your data input Let s find the right set of commands to show YOUR family the way the relationships really were PP PPT I POI VY VU VY Duplicate Children Step children and adopted children are situations where a child could appear on two families in one family file meaning a child is duplicated To create a duplicate child you ll have to add the child on both families however you don t want to create duplicate records for the child To enter a child on the first family find the desired parents click the Add Children button and choose New Male Child or Female Child Then enter the name and details of the child To add a duplicate child button 1 Find the desired parents for the second family 2 Click the Add Children button and choose Add Male Female Unknown Sex Child from the Sidebar 3 Look in the sidebar for the child The sidebar will be filtered to show children of the selected sex and with the surname of the father If the child does not appear in the sideba2. ents gt Select bio parents Family View Child gt Chart gt Fan gt 8 12 Generations gt Create Chart 1 Dbl Click on empty cell Feb 7 2013 Page 2 Patricia Burrow 2013 Feb Class Notes pages Reunion for the Mac February 2013 2 Enter adopted family names and dates gt change text color to designate adoption gt Save Continue with known family details 3 Add text box with Adotped Family or Bio Family and place on chart Pedigree Chart Creating a Pedigree Chart with both bio and adopted families is not possible in just one step It requires producing two charts and dragging them together on one page A bit challenging but produces a picture of two families coming together 1 With bio family as parents Family View Child gt Chart gt Pedigree gt 4 Generations gt Create Chart File gt Page Setup gt Landscape gt Scale 50 gt OK 2 With adopted parents showing in Family View repeat the step above creating a second chart EDIT DETAILS 3 Open the adopted chart Object gt Select gt Select All gt Edit gt Copy 4 Open the bio char Paste The adopted chart is now a fixed image It cannot be changed or edited 5 The bio chart can still be edited and moved Move the boxes into place 6 Add information text boxes and date of completion Oe BAC LO aS BC EO Ee BS AO LU EO 7 LO VA AC BN AY AO AO BV AO LY AY Happy Valentine s Day Feb 7 2013 Page 3 Patricia Burrow 2013 Feb C
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4. r for example if the child has a different surname then clear the search box at the top of the sidebar to show all people When you find the child drag him her from the sidebar and drop him her into the children area in the family view 4 Click Duplicate in the window that appears Ruthie is currently a child of Eric CAMDEN amp Annie JACKSON You can move the child Ruthie to the family of John WALTON amp Olivia PETERS or duplicate the child it will appear on both families cance owie Feb 7 2013 Page 1 Patricia Burrow 2013 Feb Class Notes pages Reunion for the Mac February 2013 Duplicate Children Multiple Sets of Parents When a person appears as a child on more than one family it means that multiple parents are linked to that child You may select which set of parents appear above the person s name These are called the preferred parents The Duplicate Child Status Since instances of duplicate children should be very rare and since the issue of linking the correct parents is important you might want a visual clue for duplicate children We suggest that you use a custom child status for this purpose call it Duplicate If you do you ll be able to see at a glance that a child is duplicated by the child button perimeter color or by the explicit status if the family view is customized to include the Child Status field Creating Duplicate Children for Descendant Charts and Reports By defini
5. tion a descendant chart or report includes blood line descendants For example if a descendant chart begins with your parents and you have a daughter who was previously married to a man with two children from another woman then those two children are not your descendants and they won t appear in the descendant chart for you or your parents If you want to include those two children in a descendant chart that begins with your parents you could duplicate these children l e the two children would appear on the family of your daughter s previous spouse and also on the family for your daughter and her current spouse To do this 1 Navigate to your daughter s family record where she appears with her current spouse 2 Click the Add Children button middle of the screen above the children area and choose Add Male Female Child From the Sidebar 3 Drag and drop the children from the People sidebar into the children box on your daughter s family A message will ask if you want to duplicate the child explained above Oe a AV ORY BV CA N A RN ON LY AO a a Y Descendant Chart Chart will include any children placed within the family If as above step children are included in the Family View they will be included Otherwise they will display only with the family that they are a part of Fan Chart Create a Fan Chart with bio parents and add adopted family one individual at a time Ctl Click in Family View gt Parents gt Edit Par
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