Change Log
What Is the Change Log?
Filtering the Change Log
Controlling the Size of the Change Log
What is NOT Recorded in the Change Log
The Change Log feature helps you to keep track of and locate the changes made to a family file and make it easy to navigate directly to the record and field that was changed.
To show the Change Log, choose File > Change Log from the main menu at the top.
You can also click Logs in the navbar and then choose Change Log.
When the Change Log appears, remember these two important tips:
- Right/Control-click any entry in the list to show special features.
- Double-click any entry to navigate directly to the modified record/field in the family file.
Here is an example of a Change Log:

The Change Log has four columns...
- Date: The date and time that a change was made.
- Record: The type of record. For example: a person, family, source, or a deleted record.
- Change: The specific field that was changed.
- Origin: Where the change took place. For example, the name of the Mac or device (iPhone or iPad, when using ReunionTouch), or the name of an imported file (GEDCOM, text, or family files).
The Change Log is sorted by Date; however, it's easy to filter the log to show specific information, as explained next.
Filtering the Change Log
One powerful way to filter the list is to Right-click or Control-click any entry in the list. When you do this, a pop-up menu will appear.

This menu makes it easy to search for...
- Changes on the same date as the clicked entry. For example, just the changes you made while visiting a relative on a particular day.
- Changes on or after the date of the clicked entry.
- Changes to the same record. For example, just the changes to one particular person or family.
- Changes of the same type. For example, just the changes to one type of note field.
- Changes from the same origin. For example, just the changes that were made on your iPad or iPhone.
To show changes to all records; or, to show only changes to people, families, sources or deleted records, use the Show menu in the upper-left corner of the Change Log window.

You can also look for particular people/families in the Change Log by using the search box at the top.
Controlling the Size of the Change Log
Clicking the Tools button (in the lower-left corner) will open the Change Log Tools window. This window provides the means to reduce the number of entries in the Change Log. It may be desirable to trim the log if, for example, you've imported 100,000 entries in a GEDCOM file and you don't really need to have a record of those 100,000 changes to your family file.
Deleting entries in the Change Log does not impact the data in your family file.

What is NOT Recorded in the Change Log
To keep the Change Log focused on people/families/sources, the following items are not recorded in the Change Log...
- Creating and deleting of family records.
- Changes to the field settings: create, delete, modify person, family and source fields.
- Changes to the Child Status settings.
- Edits to Logs.
- Marking and unmarking people.
- Adding facts, events, and notes to people, families, and sources. (The modification of the field is logged, but not the actual adding of the field.)
- Changes made in any of these panels: Change > Case/Sort/Direct Lines Bold/Numbering.
- Changes in the Color Tags sidebar.
More Details About the Change Log
- The Change Log can be opened while in the family view by using the letter-key shortcut: cl and Return.
- When a person or source is deleted, an abbreviated snapshot of the deleted record is saved (names, birth and death dates, source type and source preview) and all Change Log entries for that record are removed from the list except for the “Record created” entry if there is one and a new “Record deleted” entry will be added.
- When importing GEDCOM, Family files, and Text files, the time recorded for each imported person will be the time that the import began. So even if it takes several minutes to import a file, each imported record will show the same imported time.
Click the Share button (near the lower-left corner) to create a tab-separated text report of the Change Log contents.
Click the Marking Shortcuts button (near the lower-left corner) to mark records in the Change Log.
- Here are more details about the Change column of the Change Log...
- If a field was modified, then the name of the modified field will appear, for example “Birth date.”
- If the field was removed, then “removed” will be displayed, for example:“Birth - removed.”
- Citing and removing of source citations will appear.
- When a field is added there is no action recorded — except for Marriage and Disposition fields.