The Reminders Sidebar

What Is the Reminders Sidebar?

Reminders Settings

Exceptions: Entries that Won't Appear

Displaying Reminders Automatically When Opening a Family File

Sharing the Reminders Sidebar (Printing, Emailing, etc.)

Marking People in the Reminders Sidebar

Sidebars

What Is the Reminders Sidebar?

Reminders help you remember upcoming events, such as birthdays and anniversaries. To show Reminders, click Reminders in the Sidebar list.

The Reminders sidebar lists...

Reminders Settings

To change settings for Reminders, click the Settings button under the Reminders sidebar. This opens the Reminders Settings window, with several options.

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Reminders can include events that occurred on any given date, or during a date range beginning today.

Use the Today button to choose today's date for the reminder list.

Use the Next menu button to choose a range of days for the reminder list, starting with today. Thus the list will include events happening: today, and in the next 2 to 14 days. ("Next" includes today in its range. So "Next 2 days" means today and tomorrow.)

In the Include section of the Reminders Settings window, different events may be chosen.

For birthdays, you may choose to include only living people. For marriages, you may choose to include only married couples. In cases where birth and death dates are not available to determine whether or not a couple is still married, Reunion will use the "Living age" and "Marriage before age" feasibility settings to determine if a couple could possibly be married.

For other events, you may choose to include only living people.

When your options are properly set up in the Reminders Settings window, click the Update button.

Exceptions: Entries That Won't Appear

To be included in a reminder list, a date entry must be sufficient for Reunion to sort properly. For example, if a great-uncle's birth date entry is "1900," he will not be included in a reminder list.

Custom dates are included in reminders if their "sort date" is an exact date.