New Features in Reunion 5
This Web page provides highlights of new features in version 5.
Family Card
- Drag and Drop editing of individuals and families on-screen
- renumbering children
- moving a child from one family to another
- deleting people
- Color-coded child button text
- children with children appear with blue text
- children with multiple spouses appear with a red pop-up menu button
- User-defined views on the family card
- Same-sex couples
- Unknown sex
- Parent pop-up menu button
Entering and Editing Information
- Tabbed "Edit Person" window, for easy entry of facts, events, notes, and flags
- unlimited user-defined events per person
- unlimited user-defined facts per person
- 100 user-defined notes fields per person
- unlimited flags per person
- Events, facts, and notes can be independent for each person
- Define your own fields, including the narrative style
- Larger fact, name, place, title fields: 255 characters each
- Larger notes fields: 64,000 characters per field
- Family notes and events fields
- Tabbed "Edit Family" window, for easy entry of children, events, notes
- Sensitivity braces for notes (This lets you mark certain text as "sensitive" and, at your option, omit such text from reports.)
- Date validity/feasibility checking
- Custom dates
- Title fields: Separate Prefix and Suffix fields for titles
- Unlimited people
- 50 children per couple
- 50 spouses per person
- 15 child status types
Charts
- Unlimited dimensions
- Timeline chart
- Relative chart: includes ancestors and descendants (all relatives) of a person
- Pedigree chart with siblings
- Include any fact or event field on a graphic chart
- Colored text in chart boxes
- Color shadows
- Color borders and fills (independent)
- Color lines
- Dashed lines
- Captions with lines and arrows
- Pedigree charts up to 99 generations (increased from 35)
- Hot chart links -- Option-click any chart box or timeline bar and immediately open the correct family file to the person's record
Reports
- Web Family Cards
- HTML output for reports
- Print Preview on-screen
- Place List Report
- Picture forms
- Statistics report
- Tiny Tafel report
- Ahnentafel report up to 99 generations (increased from 31)
Source Documentation
- Unlimited sources
- The ability to use free-form OR structured sources notes
- The ability to control construction of endnotes for improved output and better compliance with accepted standards
- The ability to optionally record citation detail that is unique to an event (such as page number, volume number, etc.)
- Source pop-up menus, for easy access to recently used sources.
- General Source: used in cases where all the data for a person came from one source
- Automatic Source
Other Features
- Colored/styled text in notes, logs, and sources
- Automatic calendar reminder
- New image file formats: Reunion 5 displays the following image file formats: PICT, JPEG, GIF, MacPaint, JFIF, Silicon Graphics Inc., Photoshop 2.5, and QuickTime Image Files.
- Sound: Reunion 5 plays three common types of sound files: Finder Sound Files (sfil), Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF or AIFC), and WAV Files.
- Video: Reunion 5 displays digital movies saved in the QuickTime movie format.
- Soundex
- Hebrew date support/conversion
- Enhanced Index
- Power Mac native
- Single-file family file
- Marked Sets
- Gedcom 5.5 support
- E-mail address field
- Web page field
- Fax number field
- User-defined ID number field
- Import tab & return delimited text files
- Find & Replace
- Multiple logs for each family file