The often-comatose Saturday morning crowd perked up to near wakefulness, a tribute to Frank's presentation skills on what could be a very dry topic. Reunion is a Mac-only program, and makes superb use of the Macintosh interface. Simple family trees, however, are just a beginning for Reunion , which has a vast capacity to accept virtually unlimited personal biographical information, photos, QuickTime clips and other material. Reunion can also export information in various word processing formats, as well as HTML format, for publishing on the World Wide Web. The program can interact with information in several ways, depending on context.
Extraordinary attention is paid to the often incomplete nature of most genealogy research.
An automatic date calculator keeps track of the age of individuals at different milestones in their lives. If you entered your own birth date, and your wedding date, and the birth date of a child, Reunion could display your age, in years, months, and days, at the time of the wedding and birth of your child. Reunion can also be used as a database. The attention to detail, and the obvious focus on using it as a tool rather than incorporating features for the sake of features, is clearly evident. Because of other events taking place in the auditorium, the stage was set up with an open orchestra pit, preventing Frank from demonstrating Reunion from the stage.