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GENP 3.04 has been released.

Changes:

• There are 8 new themes. These themes are based on the existing themes but without music.
• New standard query for Attribute Types.
• Improve More dialog when editing the Late Date.
• Improve response of Tasks Wizard on Windows 7.
• Improve installer process when update - no longer have to backup and restore system tables.
• GEDCOM Import Wizard and New GenBase Wizard indicate that Themes are optional.
• Query Manager now ensures that there is at least one Search Field from a group repesented in the Exported Fields list.
• Fix date validation when adding a Burial Attribute.

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Brother's Keeper 6.3.40 has been released.

Changes:

• (updated) When importing a Gedcom file, if the gedcom file is missing sources that should be in the file, there is an option to stop the warning message about the missing sources.
• (fixed) Fixed problem on Group sheet. When excluding data for living people, it would sometimes list blank events for Baptized, Christened, Occupation for children.
• (updated) The ALT+F2 popup for characters works on the Location Details now.
• (updated) On the Lists, Sources screen, if you click to show which person this source is attached to, it will also show which event it is attached to.
• (fixed) On the Group sheets, if printing a range of numbers with Husband at top of the page, it would sometimes put the Wife at the top of the page (in cases where that wife had a previous 'not entered' spouse.)
• (updated) On Group sheet and Ancestor chart, if making HTML files, there is a Browse button to select the background picture.
• (new) On the Edit screen, when you click Options, there is a new option there to switch to the Events tab if you double click a Child name.
• (fixed) Ancestor Chart, if option set for Ref Number and making RTF file, it was not showing the Ref Number in the RTF file.
• (fixed) On Gedcom Export, it would sometimes not export more than one alternate name for a person. (If for the options you did ask for sources and did not ask for Notes and did ask for pictures.)
• (fixed) On the Indented Book report, if showing which spouse the child belongs to, and if the child has sex 'unknown', it will say 'child of' and not 'daughter of' or 'son of'.

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GenealogyJ 3.0 has been released.

Changes:

• UI: new MDI paradigm with all views in one workbench
• Usability: edit operations available in top level workbench menus
• Usability: reorganization of menu items/easy access (Edit, Tools, Reports)
• Usability: 5 recent files File menu
• Usability: date entry fields understand separator during entry (e.g. typing 5.5.1970)
• Usability: drag&pan in various views
• Usability: various simplifications, ease of use improvements, tweaks of the interface
• Usability: quick lists for references/relationships of persons in editor
• Feature: editor handles multiple media for individuals, events, etc.
• Feature: screenshot to clipboard (tree, timeline)
• Feature: option to print NxM & scale-to-fit
• Feature: removal of rendering file limitations - auto-derive suitable media to render in trees (blueprints)
• Platform: Windows Vista/7 compatible installer
• Platform: Mac compatible Application w/ Mac feel
• Data: option to maintain SURN|GIVN information
• Data: option to maintain AGE information
• Data: option to auto correct names/surnames

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GenSmarts 2.1.1.81 has been released.

Changes:

• This is the general release of a number of small enhancements and fixes that have been under testing as versions x.1.1.63 through x.1.1.80
• One additional bug was fixed relating to how GenSmarts reacts when a Vista/Win7 user migrates from IE7 to IE8
• Fixed bug where Version 2.1.1.80 was mistakenly labeled 3.1.1.80

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Personal Ancestry Writer II 91 has been released.

Changes:

• Previously, the list of people displayed when the Find Person button is clicked (or command-F is pressed or Person menu > Find Person by Name is chosen) was limited to 30,000 people. Now all people on file are displayed, regardless of how many there are.
• The same is true of the list of tagged people displayed when the Find Tagged button is clicked (or option-command-F is pressed or Person menu > Find Tagged Person by Name is chosen).
• The same is true of the list of names displayed when Edit menu > Copy Name, Tag menu > Tag People whose Names Contain, or Tag Menu > Tag People with a Place Containing is chosen, as well as for the list of citations displayed when Citation menu > Edit Citations is chosen.
• The Reference Guide was updated to remove references to the above list limitations, and to add an explanation of marriage intentions to the topic Basic Data Entry > Dates.
• Titles at the head of HTML reports that contain non-ASCII characters are now displayed correctly.

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Brother's Keeper 6.3.39 has been released.

Changes:

• Updated the Translation program for foreign language translators (see the translation page.) • On the source grid screen, the bottom buttons were too far left when screen size was 640 by 480. Fixed.

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GEDitCOM II 1.3 build 2 has been released.

Changes:

• After a "View→Relationship..." search, select any relationship that was found and click the new "Show Chart" button see a chart/report about the two individual's common ancestor including full pedigree lines from each individual to that common ancestor.
• While viewing notes, sources, multimedia objects, or research logs, two new commands in the "Attach" submenu let you select individual or family records and have them cite the record you are viewing. Previously you had to go to the individual or family record to attach the link.
• Similarly, you can drag and drop individual and family records on to notes, sources, multimedia objects, or research logs and those records will link to the drop-target record
• New menu commands in the "Go" submenu let you step through records in the current album being displayed in the index window.
• The display of multimedia objects in the "Default Format" and the "Pedigree Format" now uses several panes and one will zoom in on the current image. Additionally images can be scaled for preferred display size and other formats updated to look for the scale setting.
• Marriage Events now also show in the "Events" pane of family records in the "Default Format."
• Added support for research log records in the "Book Format" and the "Basic Format."
• Fixed a bug that could cause the data in the current browser record to become disconnected (and therefore seemingly unresponsive to editing, although no data was harmed) if you saved the file while editing.
• Fixed a bug that could cause a "child" window (e.g., a window with details on an event) to become disconnected from the data in certain rare sequences of actions.

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Behold 0.99.6 beta has been released.

Changes:

• Add the speed improvement for incrementing the number of tags.
• Reduce the number of internal passes the autoorganize routine uses.
• Change the internal storage to be GEDCOM records instead of GEDCOM lines that I tested but was previously unable continue using.
• These improvements reduced loading time by 27% and reduced memory usage by 7%.
• Allow recent files to properly handle pathnames longer than 100 characters and conveniently abbreviate them.
• Correct the tag counts that were double counted and move the count for PLAC tags back from the pointer group into the data group. This bug was introduced in 0.99.1.
• Correct problems in buffering the view area of the Everything Report that sometimes made it jump positions when scrolling up or down with the arrow keys or mouse wheel.
• Do not give a blank line message for blank lines following the TRLR line.
• Prevent an on-idle exception from happening at program startup. If you were getting this, it was a really bad bug that prevented you from continuing or exiting.
• Eliminate an on-idle bug when determining who is under the cursor for Instant Organize purposes, and also put the space back in between the first and last names when the names of those people are displayed.

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Behold 0.99.5 beta has been released.

Changes:

• Allow modification of the concatenate method used for CONC tags, as either 0 spaces, 1 space or let Behold pick one based on the source program. This is done on the GEDCOMs Organize page and can be set for each GEDCOM independently.
• Added a default tag name for HEAD.DATA.
• Make minor adjustments to the recently used file menu and toolbar items.
• Repaired the incorrect flipping of two characters when certain special characters were encountered in the ANSEL character set.
• Eliminate the insertion of " CONB " when only a space should have been inserted in concatenated lines. This bug was introduced in 0.99.1 beta.
• Eliminate the error when scrolling the current selection out of the loaded view.
• Ensure the opened files are correctly added to the recent file list.
• Eliminate the error when registering using a name of 5 or fewer characters. This bug was introduced in 0.99.1 beta. It looks like 7 people may have been affected before it was finally reported to me.

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GENP 3.03 has been released.

Changes:

• New facility - Welcome Tasks. Seen under Help menu. Existing users will need to customize the menu to see the facility.
• On Query Manager the Help button invokes new Help file topic. Focus of dialog is now first row of Available Queries.
• About Box has link to website.
• On System Table Groups has link to video on website.
• On History has link to video on website.
• Fix to installer on Windows 7 under special conditions.
• On Attribute Detail and Source Detail the accelerator keys are disabled.