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3 January 2012
Ancestral Author 2.9d Update Released
Ancestral Author 2.9d has been released.
Changes:
• Maximum number of hyperlinks has been increased from 1.5 million to 4.5 million. The page limit has increased from 24,000 to 72,000.
• The GEDCOM reading speed is no much faster.
• Ported to Windows 64-bit operating systems. The 64-bit version of AA is automatically installed on 64-bit versions of Windows, and will process much larger GEDCOM files than the standard 32-bit version of AA.
23 December 2011
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2012 beta build 111221 Update Released
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2012 beta build 111221 has been released.
Changes:
• Fixed: Formatting and hyperlinking errors of places including latitude/longitude coordinates when Index of Places is part of the report.
23 November 2011
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2012 beta build 111120 Update Released
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2012 beta build 111120 has been released.
Changes:
• Improved: Punctuation of sentences ending with an abbreviation of a place, name, or date (e.g., U.S.A., Jr., B.C.). Additional periods are now never added.
4 November 2011
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2012 beta Update Released
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2012 has been released.
Changes:
• New: Introductory texts may now be specified for each section individually.
• New: PDF reports may now be created with a nested tree structure in the PDF Bookmarks table for the Indirectly Related, Associated, and Unconnected sections. This makes the other sections easier to locate within the bookmarks table when there are many narrative sections within the report.
• New: Reports may now include the Ahnentafel (ancestor) and d'Aboville (descendant) codes for individuals reported in the Direct Relations section.
• Improved: The organization of the Indirectly Related, Associated, and Unconnected sections has been improved so that, within each of these sections, sub-branches are nested below the branches to which they relate.
• Improved: The Branch Selection window (opened via the "Select" buttons of the main window for the Indirectly Related, Associated, and Unconnected sections) is now organized as a selectable tree structure.
• Changed: The "Cover and Page Options" section of the preferences have been separated into "Cover Options" and "Page Options".
• Changed: The PDF-only related preferences of the "PDF/DOC Reports" section of the preferences have been moved to a new "PDF Reports" section.
27 October 2011
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2011 beta build 111024 Update Released
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2011 beta build 111024 has been released.
Changes:
• Fixed errors in Portuguese relationship expressions, particularly those relating to removed cousins.
11 October 2011
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2011 beta build 111008 Update Released
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2011 beta build 111008 has been released.
Changes:
• Fixed: Unexpected program error when creating the contents list of sources and a source title is a long text with no spaces (e.g., a URL) which needs to be broken across two or more lines.
29 September 2011
New Software: Personal Historian Essentials
Personal Historian Essentials contains many core features from the Personal Historian software and the two products are fully-compatible with one another. Personal Historian Essentials is available for download at http://rootsmagic.com/Personal-Historian/Essentials/.
Personal Historian 2 Update Released
Personal Historian 2 has been released.
New Features:
• Streamlined step-by-step wizards.
• Expanded timelines and memory trigger questions.
• Easy filtering and searching of stories.
• Management of categories, people, and places.
• Improved outlining and writing analysis.
• Wrapping of text around pictures; fonts and text styles.
• More-powerful publishing and output options.
21 September 2011
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2011 beta build 110919 Update Released
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2011 beta build 110919 has been released.
Changes:
• Selections of indirect, associated and unconnected individuals are now saved. Subsequent executions of TCGR will now remember previous selections by GEDCOM file name and subject person. See help file ("Operation"/"Report Creation" section) for details.
• After loading a GEDCOM file, memory used by the loading process is immediately released. This improvement will reduce the potential for "out of memory" errors when processing very large amounts of data.
16 September 2011
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2011 beta build 110915 Update Released
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2011 beta build 110915 has been released.
Changes:
• Fixed: The narration "x married his y" is now correctly narrated as "x was the partner of his y" when x and y are recorded as not married.
7 September 2011
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2011 beta build 110902 Update Released
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2011 beta build 110902 has been released.
Changes:
• Improved: When a citation is to a note, any subordinate details (quality, page, citation note) are now reported.
• Fixed: Occasional omission and misplacement of the subordinate details of a citation and the subordinate details of its source.
• Fixed: Occasional omission of a note is attached to a source record.
31 August 2011
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2011 beta build 110828 Update Released
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2011 beta build 110828 has been released.
Changes:
• Fixed: References to marriages of cousins in Spanish and Catalan reports now correctly report the ordinal degree of the cousin relationship. (Previously, the degree was erroneously reported as "".)
16 June 2011
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2011 beta build 110613 Update Released
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2011 beta build 110613 has been released.
Changes:
• Fixed: Further errors in the French GUI translation.
• Improved: Matching of entries in the Places description file with maps created by the Google Map capability of The Complete Genealogy Builder.
• Improved: Minor revisions to Slovak report translations.
7 June 2011
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2011 beta build 110605 Update Released
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2011 beta build 110605 has been released.
Changes:
• Improved: When a page break occurs in the description of an index entry, the ""Subtitle (Continued)" heading is repeated on the new page.
31 May 2011
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2011 beta build 110530 Update Released
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2011 beta build 110530 has been released.
Changes:
• Fixed: An unexpected program error could occur when creating an HTML report with a URL as the source title for an event record.
6 May 2011
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2011 beta build 110504 Update Released
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2011 beta build 110504 has been released.
Changes:
• Fixed: The text of separate (level 0) NOTE records not being imported.
• New: Swedish cousin reporting option: "Kusin, Tremänning" (as an alternative for "Tvåmänning, Tremänning").
• Improved: Swedish report language translation ("Fyrmänning" instead of "Fyramänning).
27 April 2011
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2011 beta build 110425 Update Released
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2011 beta build 110425 has been released.
Changes:
• New: Release of Slovak report language translation.
• Improved: Czech report language translation.
20 April 2011
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2011 beta build 110419 Update Released
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2011 beta build 110419 has been released.
Changes:
• Improved: Nicknames (marked by "*") are now automatically extracted from NAME tags created by MinSläkt (another leading Swedish genealogy program).
15 April 2011
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2011 beta build 110411 Update Released
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2011 beta build 110411 has been released.
Changes:
• New: Preference option to protect a PDF report such that it may only be viewed and printed.
• New: Capability to add a logo and/or text to the bottom of the front page of each volume. (See "Section Customization" in the help file.)
11 April 2011
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2011 beta build 110410 Update Released
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2011 beta build 110410 has been released.
Changes:
• New: French user interface.
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