Restoring Reunion from Mac

 Periodically devices die. I seem to have a collection of backup strategies that did not work for assorted reasons. (What do you mean CDs become unreadable?) Yet again a friend (you both know who you are) helped take my old computer apart and pull stuff off my hard drive. But it is more than. An environment that understands the files is also needed. As expected this is going to be a long slow process.

Today I bought an upgrade license for Reunion13 and got support to look up my old license to Reunion9. (Time to start keeping records of license numbers.) Opened a copy of the old file, and accepted the option to convert the file format. It then gave an error about missing media files. Woot! This was to be expected and is clearly the next step.  For a small, sample it worked! This enables me to look at the branch in the spotlight this week.

So I have a bit of a mess with  4 versions of information:

  • familysearch on internet - built with a bit of knowlege and approximately 200 sources - not in my control
  • GRAMPS on Windows10 - recently built with an effort to sourcing - internet research added; (merges depend on matching proprietary IDs)
  • FTM on Windows 7 (I think that is what dad had) - we were trying to keep in synch - the emailed gedcoms worked later - minus resulting merge issues
  • Reunion13 on MacOS Monterey (replacing Reunion9 probably on Snow Leopard) - let the learning curve begin (1213 people 59 sources)
And to think I struggle with merging contact information, where the records are separate. yea-haw.

TNMT? There were four ninja turtle movies?  How many John Wick movies? Clearly the TV is just noise as I totally missed the transition. Just seeing who actually reads this...  :D I should be using PLEX to play music instead.  (The last is related as a different set of media I want to recover.)

GRAMPS should be easy to install on the Mac. Is there a reason to? With Reunion9 I kept a copy of lifelines around to run some reports on the exported data. 

A reunion backup document from Silicon Valley Computer Genealogy Group

Next:

  • get aquainted with reunion - especially import/export, reports, merge
  • periodic backups in proprierty format
  • periodic backups in a gedcom version to be determined
  • paper backups 
  • configure plex on NAS for sharing media across devices and populate from old computer
  • offsite backups (cloud? memory stick in safety deposit box?)
  • get one true tree - revisit merge tools from earlier discussions?

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