Pruning the All Sites and Regional Groups
To help you find more information about a person, Reunion provides an instant search of online web sites — large, searchable databases of genealogical information. Some are free; some indicate that they contain information you're seeking, but will charge a membership or subscription fee in order to access the records. Some offer a mixture of free and paid content.
Examples include: familysearch.org, ancestry.com, archives.com, findagrave.com, etc.
Reunion can assist in performing searches by automatically launching your web browser, connecting with a web site, and passing it details about a person for whom you desire more information. If information is found (names, dates, places, images, etc.), you may peruse it and add/update records in Reunion accordingly.
The purpose of this feature is to help you to explore genealogical resources available on the web. We do not provide, endorse, or have any other relationship with the site providers.
To perform a web search...
In the
submenu, the following choices will appear...The following section explains how to use the web searching settings to set up favorites, groups, and also how to prune the "All Sites" menus, in case it contains sites for which you have no interest.
To set web-searching settings...
This opens the Web Searching Settings...
What's in the Web Searching Settings?
The Web Searching Settings includes three sections...
In the Web Searching Settings, click a group in the Groups list to see a list of sites associated with the group. These sites will appear in the Sites list (in the middle). The groups include...
All Sites - literally, all the search sites Reunion is currently aware of.
Favorites - This group lets you select favorites — those that you deem the most useful — and enables automated searching of multiple web resources. To add or remove sites in the Favorites, select All Sites in the Groups list and then drag/drop names from the Sites list (the middle list) onto the word "Favorites" in the Groups list on the left.
Custom Groups - These groups provide a way to assemble custom collections of search sites. For example, groups for different countries.
As we discover more sites (or create updates to existing sites) you can instantly retrieve these by clicking the
button in the bottom of the Web Settings > Searching window.If you learn of new, helpful web sites/resources and want to see them implemented in Reunion, please let us know.
Pruning the "All Sites" and Regional Groups
The All Sites menu may get very long, over time. Also, there may be sites in some regional groups for which you have no interest.
To designate items to not appear in the
menu (when clicking a button in the family view and choosing ), click the check-box button in the column on the right edge of the Sites list.Clicking the check-box button on the same line as the region name will omit all sites within that region group.
Many thanks to Reunion user Keith Bage for his suggestions regarding this feature.