Over at the DearMyrtle blog, there are two different posts mentioning taking your genealogy databases from your genealogy software and carrying and accessing them on USB flash drives. The topic came up as people were talkiong about using PAF or GEDCOM files, and apparently some genealogy software makers make their software available for free at Family History Centers.

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Northern Hills Software has a released a major update in their Pocket Genealogist public beta for version 3.0 series. This is version 3.00A56 Public Beta. Pocket Genealogist is a PocketPC/Windows Mobile based genealogy application, and this series is part of the 3.0 public beta series. This release incorporates several major changes, including Windows Mobile 5.0 improvements, as well as a rework of the To Do imports.

Note: Requires re-import of database

To download and view a status of the changes coming to version 3.0 of Pocket Genealogist, please refer to this page (northernhillssoftware.com).

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The PalmOS genealogy application, GedStar Pro has been updated to GedStar Pro 3.1c. It can be downloaded here (GedStar Pro site). This version fixes a bug where multiple internal TMG (The Master Genealogist) exhibits are not being converted properly.

This update is recommended if the following new features are applicable to you

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Minimo, the open source web browser from The Mozilla Group, is now available in a Windows Mobile 5.0 version, and it’s “optimized to provide a small footprint and a good web browsing experience on small screens”. jkOnTheRun didn’t have a good initial experience with it on a Palm Treo 700w, saying that it had “instability issues and very slow performance. To be fair the low available memory on the Treo 700w may be the culprit”. That’s not to say it’s not worth a shot on other Windows Mobile 5.0 devices. Many of us are always looking for the next best browser, especially now that more mobile devices are supporting wireless internet access, and more and more places are providing the access.

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I’m still not sure what to make or think of this, but apparently Palm OS Garnet is going to be phased out in favor of Linux. MobileTechReview has a really good writeup

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FileMaker Mobile 8 is now shipping. If you use FileMaker 8 to store your genealogy information and research notes, this maybe of interest to you. Among the new features - expanded workgroup support. The Starter Solutions has been expanded as well.

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Battery Park Software has updated their Mac OS X and Linux installer for GedWise, their PalmOS-based genealogy application. This brings GedWise for Mac OS X and Linux up to version 6.3.3.

They have also updated their Windows installer to version 6.2

The update can be downloaded here - batteryparksoftware.com.

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