Other Tools - Windows - Purchase
GedStar Pro 4.4.1 has been released.
Changes:
• Minor GEDCOM fixes.
• Support for On This Day home screen widget.
Genealogy Blog
16 May 2012
GedStar Pro 4.4.1 Update Released
FamilySearch Indexing 1.1 Update Released
PDAs and Handhelds - Freeware
FamilySearch Indexing 1.1 has been released.
Changes:
• Minor bug fixes.
FamilySearch Indexing 1.1 has been released.
Changes:
• Minor bug fixes.
FamilyInsight for Windows 2012.5.5.0 Update Released
Other Tools - Windows - Purchase
FamilyInsight for Windows 2012.5.5.0 has been released.
Changes:
• Improved medialinks loading speed.
• Improved handling of RootsMagic Research logs.
• Fixed a crash.
FamilyInsight for Windows 2012.5.5.0 has been released.
Changes:
• Improved medialinks loading speed.
• Improved handling of RootsMagic Research logs.
• Fixed a crash.
Brother's Keeper 6.5.11 Update Released
Full Featured - Windows - Purchase
Brother's Keeper 6.5.11 has been released.
Changes:
• Fixed: The 6.5.10 version sometimes gave a 'subscript out of range' error for Box charts.
• Changed: On Group Sheets, if you are printing 'All' for children, it used to say 'spouse' but now it will say 'husband' 'wife' 'partner' 'fiancee'.
• Changed: On Group Sheets, if you are printing 'All' for children and printing Children notes, it used only print Individual notes for the child, but now it will also print Family notes attached to the child.
Brother's Keeper 6.5.11 has been released.
Changes:
• Fixed: The 6.5.10 version sometimes gave a 'subscript out of range' error for Box charts.
• Changed: On Group Sheets, if you are printing 'All' for children, it used to say 'spouse' but now it will say 'husband' 'wife' 'partner' 'fiancee'.
• Changed: On Group Sheets, if you are printing 'All' for children and printing Children notes, it used only print Individual notes for the child, but now it will also print Family notes attached to the child.
Billion Graves 2.1.1 Update Released
PDAs and Handhelds - Freeware
Billion Graves 2.1.1 has been released.
Changes:
• Fixes to prevent image upload from stopping.
Billion Graves 2.1.1 has been released.
Changes:
• Fixes to prevent image upload from stopping.
Archivist of the United States and "Collector-in-Chief" David Ferriero Talks Role of National Archives
Discussing both the Declaration of Independence and Michael Jackson’s patent for anti-gravity shoes, Archivist of the United States and "collector-in-chief" David Ferriero spoke on Monday afternoon about the array of challenges he faces helping to digitize and declassify the 12 billion papers under the National Archive’s control.Ferriero’s lecture, organized by five local libraries, was part of the “Leading Voices in Higher Education” strategic planning lecture series.
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Olympic Records Available Online
Hundreds of historic documents and images relating to the Olympic and Paralympic Games have been made available online by The National Archives for the first time. From the 19th to the 21st century.The new site 'The Olympic Record' includes a timeline feature which enables visitors to track back through time and browse material from every summer Olympics from Athens in 1896 to Beijing in 2008.
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Thousands of Irish Medieval Documents Now Available Online
Trinity College Dublin historians have reconstructed invaluable medieval documents destroyed during the bombardment of the Four Courts in 1922. The Four Courts was the home of the Public Record Office, which was catastrophically destroyed when it was bombed in the conflict between pro-Treaty and anti-Treaty forces at the start of the Irish Civil War.It was previously thought that the entire medieval archive had been destroyed, but forty years’ work by a team of researchers at Trinity has led to the reconstruction of more than 20,000 hugely important government documents produced by the medieval chancery of Ireland.
Source & Full Story
15 May 2012
Reunion 10 Update Released
Full Featured - Mac - Purchase
Reunion 10 has been released.
New:
• Pictures Everywhere - You can include pictures in all buttons in the family view: a couple, their children and parents.
• Places - New features include: mapping of places in Google or Bing, entry of geo codes for places (automatic or manual), etc.
• Tree View - The new "tree view" is bigger, better, more flexible than the old "overview" window. Choose a pedigree or hourglass chart style (to show ancestors and descendants).
• Family View Preferences - There is much greater ability to customizing the appearance and content of the family view.
• Web Searching - Search genealogical web resources for more information about a person.
• Events Report - A new chronological report showing a list of events for people in your family file. Include all people or only marked people.
• View full list of new features.
Reunion 10 has been released.
New:
• Pictures Everywhere - You can include pictures in all buttons in the family view: a couple, their children and parents.
• Places - New features include: mapping of places in Google or Bing, entry of geo codes for places (automatic or manual), etc.
• Tree View - The new "tree view" is bigger, better, more flexible than the old "overview" window. Choose a pedigree or hourglass chart style (to show ancestors and descendants).
• Family View Preferences - There is much greater ability to customizing the appearance and content of the family view.
• Web Searching - Search genealogical web resources for more information about a person.
• Events Report - A new chronological report showing a list of events for people in your family file. Include all people or only marked people.
• View full list of new features.
Are You Related to Dennis Hopper?
Hopper was born on May 17, 1936, in Dodge City, Kansas, the son of Marjorie Mae (née Davis, July 12, 1917 - January 12, 2007) and Jay Millard Hopper (June 23, 1916 – August 7, 1982).After World War II, the family moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where the young Hopper attended Saturday art classes at the Kansas City Art Institute. At the age of 13, Hopper and his family moved to San Diego, where his mother worked as a lifeguard instructor and his father was a post office manager.
Dennis Hopper's Family Tree
14 May 2012
Library and Archives Canada - New digitized reels: War of 1812 Records
Library and Archives Canada is pleased to announce that you can now access 73,000 new images of War of 1812 records on its website.Library and Archives Canada holds a unique and vast collection of records about the Canadian men and women who were involved in the War of 1812. Muster rolls, paylists, claims, certificates of service, medal registers, maps, paintings, and published sources are featured in LAC holdings that document this key event.
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81 Boxes of Top-Secret and Restricted Documents Missing at National Archives
According to the inspector general for the National Archives and Records Administration, NARA has lost track of 81 boxes containing top secret or restricted data—including nuclear weapons information. Among these are four boxes of material designated “Top Secret” by the Office of the Secretary of Defense.Government officials don’t think the materials have been stolen. Instead, the paperwork may just be unaccounted for inside The Washington National Records Center, which features rooms double the size of football fields that house row after row of boxed documents.
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Forgotten Children of Spain's Civil War Reunite 75 Years After Exile
For the more superstitious inhabitants of the Basque village of El Regato, the beginning of the Spanish civil war was portended not so much by Francisco Franco's coup as by the onset of a sudden turmoil in the heavens."People were saying the war is starting because all the stars in the sky are rushing around," says Herminio Martínez, who, even as a six-year-old then, was beginning to grow sceptical. "I would look up in the sky but I couldn't see the stars rushing around."
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My Uncle Denis, Pilot of the Plane Time Forgot: First Pictures of the Man Who Crash-Landed His Plane in the Sahara and Then Walked Off Across the Sands to His Death
He poses proudly in his RAF uniform and also looks down from the cockpit of his Second World War fighter plane, perhaps ready for a mission against the Desert Fox himself, Erwin Rommel.These are the first pictures of 24-year-old Flight Sergeant Denis Copping, the wartime pilot who crash-landed his plane in the Sahara and then walked off across the sands to his death.
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Faces of Two Lost USS Monitor Crewmen Unveiled
In 1975, two years after the wreck of the USS Monitor was discovered off Cape Hatteras, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) designated the USS Monitor National Marine Sanctuary to protect her.27 years later, in 2002, the USS Monitor’s turret was pulled up from the wreck site by NOAA and the US Navy Diving Team commanded by Bobbie Scholley. Recovered within the turret were the remains of two of the USS Monitor’s crewmembers.
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Add a Slideshow of Family Pictures and Links to your Favorite Persons in your GeneaNet Online Family Tree
Club Privilege members can add up to 8 pictures that will be displayed in a slideshow in the home page of their Online Family Tree. These pictures can be linked to the page of an individual in the family tree.Every GeneaNet member can add up to 8 Favorite Persons in the home page of their Online Family Tree to create a quick access to their individual page. Club Privilege members can also create a quick access to the charts and lists, and they can create two groups to organize their Favorite Persons.
8 May 2012
Are You Related to Katharine Hepburn?
Hepburn was born on May 12, 1907, in Hartford, Connecticut, the second of six children. Her parents were Katharine Martha Houghton (1878–1951), a feminist who headed the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association and later fought for birth control with Margaret Sanger, and Thomas Norval Hepburn (1879–1962), a urologist at Hartford Hospital.Katharine Martha instilled in her daughter the virtues of perseverance, independence and fortitude, teaching that women were equal to men. As a child, Hepburn joined her mother on several "Votes For Women" demonstrations.
Katharine Hepburn's Family Tree
7 May 2012
The GeneaNet 'Individual Matches'
The GeneaNet 'Individual Matches' allow you to automatically search for individuals that may match with any of your ancestors in the GeneaNet database!
This powerful feature is reserved for GeneaNet Club Privilege members.
Other GeneaNet members can search for 'Individual Matches' in the Archival Records and Indexes but not in the collaborative family trees.
5 May 2012
Transcript 2.4.1 build 90 beta Update Released
Transcriptions & Indexes - Windows - Freeware
Transcript 2.4.1 build 90 beta has been released.
Changes:
• New translation engine making it easier to translate into other languages.
• Use default Windows system font for all our dialogs/forms which should improve the looks on vista and 7.
• Bugfix: Transcript application title and version were not showing in the titlebar when using the unregistered version.
• Bugfix: Making a new project with an empty name was allowed.
• Changed default e-mail address inside the program.
Transcript 2.4.1 build 90 beta has been released.
Changes:
• New translation engine making it easier to translate into other languages.
• Use default Windows system font for all our dialogs/forms which should improve the looks on vista and 7.
• Bugfix: Transcript application title and version were not showing in the titlebar when using the unregistered version.
• Bugfix: Making a new project with an empty name was allowed.
• Changed default e-mail address inside the program.
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2012 beta build 110502 Update Released
Family Books - Windows - Shareware
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2012 beta build 110502 has been released.
Changes:
• Fixed: HTML encoding issues relating to "src" references of image files which caused the images not to be shown in the browser.
• Fixed: "Waiting for Wordpad" message not disappearing after Wordpad exit.
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2012 beta build 110502 has been released.
Changes:
• Fixed: HTML encoding issues relating to "src" references of image files which caused the images not to be shown in the browser.
• Fixed: "Waiting for Wordpad" message not disappearing after Wordpad exit.
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