Including Events for Other Family Members
Sharing the Ages Sidebar (Printing, Emailing, Copying)
How Are Ages Calculated?
The Calendar System
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Sidebars
Ages is a sidebar that shows the ages of a person when different events occurred in the person's life. It also shows the weekday and the date on which events occurred. To see the Ages sidebar, click
in the Sidebar list.Two lists are created: one for the husband and one for the wife of the current family. To switch between them, click the tab buttons at the top of the list (containing each person's name).
You can navigate to a person's family by single-clicking a name in the Ages sidebar.
The contents of the Ages sidebar are updated as you navigate to different people in the family file, reflecting the "ages" of the husband/wife appearing in the family view.
Tip: Here are some shortcuts for seeing the Ages sidebar for any person...
To change settings for the Ages sidebar, click the button, in the bottom bar, under the Ages sidebar. The Ages Settings window will appear.
Including Events for Other Family Members
The Ages sidebar becomes more interesting when you include events from other family members, for example you can see the age of a person when his grandparents died, when his grandchildren were born, etc. To reveal these additional events for other family members, click the
button at the bottom of the Ages sidebar and experiment with the check box buttons in the Ages Settings window, shown above.The preferred picture for each person may be included in the Ages sidebar, via the
button in the Ages Settings window.Finally, the formatting of the age is set using the menu button at the bottom of the Ages Settings window.
In the Ages sidebar, perspective events representing milestones and occurrences outside the realm of genealogy can be included. For example, sporting events, political events, birth dates of famous composers (see the example below), literary authors, etc., can be injected into the list of events in a person's lifetime. Perspective events are also used in timeline charts and are further explained here.
To include perspective events in the Ages sidebar, click the button (the little calendar icon under the Ages sidebar) and then choose the perspective event sets you'd like to appear in the Ages sidebar. More than one set can be selected. To remove a set of perspective events from the Ages sidebar, uncheck the item in the Perspective Events window.
When the Ages sidebar includes perspective events, each perspective event will have a unique icon reflecting the nature of milestones in the perspective event set. For example, a US Flag for US presidents, an airplane for aviation history, musical notation for composers, a soccer ball for Olympics, etc. A complete list of icons and some technical info appears here.
Tip: Double-click a perspective event in the Ages sidebar to automatically open your web browser and perform a Google search for the topic/content of the perspective event.
Sharing Ages - Printing, Emailing, Copying
To share the Ages sidebar (print, email, etc.), click the button in the bottom bar, under the Ages sidebar. This opens the Share window with the following options...
Non-Exact Dates
Calculations in the Ages window rely on the accuracy of your date entries. Where an exact date is not given (for example, when date modifiers
are employed), Reunion will use certain conventions for date sorting and calculations. The date entries below demonstrate Reunion's sorting logic...
Sorted Date Entries in Reunion |
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31 DEC 1974 |
ABT 31 DEC 1974 |
BEF 1975 |
BEF JAN 1975 |
BEF 1 JAN 1975 |
1975 |
ABT 1975 |
JAN 1975 |
ABT JAN 1975 |
AFT 31 DEC 1974 |
AFT DEC 1974 |
AFT 1974 |
1 JAN 1975 |
ABT 1 JAN 1975 |
Note: the date modifiers CIRCA, ABOUT, and APPROX will sort together.
Feasibility
The Ages window does not examine your date entries for feasibility, nor does it perform calculations for BC dates.
Strange Results
If there is a problem with age calculations, you should verify the setting of your system date. If the current system date is incorrect, calculations in the Ages window will be incorrect. To check this, choose System Settings from your menu and click the Date & Time icon. The correct date should appear. For more details, consult your
Macintosh Help.
The calendar system was reformed by Julius Caesar in 45 BC (the origin of the name July), Augustus in 8 BC (the origin of the name August), and about 1500 years later by Pope Gregory XIII.
Pope Gregory XIII completed a reform of the Julian calendar in 1582 which removed the dates between 5 Oct and 14 Oct 1582. These "missing" days are reflected in age span calculations, however, only if the starting and ending dates fall before and after the missing dates. Reunion does not alter your date entries (or day of the week calculations) that fall within these missing dates.
Several sites on the web have historical information about the calendar. Here are a few to get you started...
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci212428,00.html
http://www.holy-trinity.org/modern/calen3.html
To perform a Google search of the subject, click here.