But when it gets complicated, you won’t be able to get a valid diagram from the programme. The issue remains also in version 10 and they have no plans to resolve it anywhere in the near future.īased on this experience, I believe MacFamily Tree is fine for standard straight forward family trees without any more winding relations. It took a while but they eventually explained to me what the problem was: They couldn’t explain though why recursions weren’t an issue until version 8, and then became such a problem since version 9. It is impossible to generate a valid visual report of the various families and their branches. producing local heritage overviews for entire villages) this issue has become a real nuissance. In the case of a fan chart this means huge gaps in the diagram for family branches that are already resolved.Īs I’m using MacFamily Tree also to do some more comprehensive genealogical research (e.g. In all other instances those branches would be omitted entirely. In that case, MacFamily Tree will only show such recurring branches once in any of its diagrams. if two distant cousins got married and therefore their respective ancestors would be partially identical. They might happen if the same persons occur several times in your ancestry, e.g. Strangely, since version 9 the backend programming was changed to avoid recursions. ![]() ![]() The UI is beautifully designed and look and feel are 100 Macintosh. but overall I was always rather happy with the app – until version 9. This app, like all Synium products, is gorgeous and a pleasure to work with. I concur with some of the critique expressed in other posts about the data entry etc. I’ve been using MacFamily Tree since version 7 and was generally happy.
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