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iFamily for Leopard 2.423 has been released.

Changes:

• HTML Web Pages: Added an option to suppress the display and printing of iFamily For Leopard from the footer on each web page. Added Cmd-W to the Close buttons.
Ancestors and Descendants Diagrams: Added an option to suppress the display and printing of the iFamily for Leopard footer. Added Cmd-W to the Close buttons.
• Context Diagram: Added an option to to allow the user to decide if the Family Dialog should be displayed each time a parent or spouse is added to the Context Diagram. The workflow was changed in V2.419 so that the Family Dialog was always displayed when a parent or spouse was added to the Context Diagram. However, if you have the Family Pane open then displaying the Family Dialog as well is redundant. Version 2.422 now allows the user to decide if these pop-up dialogs should be displayed or not. The default is OFF, as in versions prior to V2.419. Added Cause of Death o the scroll-ball activated text in each person's box.
• Multimedia Objects: Added the following file types to those that may be dropped in the Pictures pane, onto a person in the Context Diagram or into the Picture Editor Dialog: 3g2, 3gp, 3gp2, 3gpp, aac, ac3, adts, amc, amr, asf, asx, atr, avi, bwf, caf, cdda, cel, dat, dib, dif, dv, dvd, flc, fli, gsm, jpe, kar, m15, m1a, m1s, m1v, m2a, m3u, m4b, m4v, m75, mid, midi, MOV, mov, mp2, mp4, mpa, mpeg, mpg, mpm, mpv, MQV, mqv, pls, qcp, qht, qhtm, qif, qt, QT, qtpf, qtz, rtsp, sd2, sdp, sdv, sfil, skin, smf, smi, smil, sml, swa, vfw, wax, wma, wmv, wvx . iFamily will now accept 216 different file types for images, sound, text and movies.
• Merge Two People: Added merge of Source References, confirmations of relationship merges, merge of marriage events. Improved the logic for merging parent, child and spouse relationships. Corrected an error that occasionally occurred when merging two people within the current database. The error was trapped and no harm was done.
• Sources Add/Edit - Notes: Added Cmd-W to the Close button and removed it from the Spell Check button.
• Gedcom Load: Corrected an error in Gedcom Load related to handling of movie files (refer above).

MacFamilyTree 5.2.1 has been released.

Changes:

• Several fixes in the GEDCOM importer.
• GEDCOM Merge improved.
• PDF files are now generated correctly under Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.
• Virtual Globe rendering issue on older systems resolved.
• Fixes for MacFamilyTree.com upload.

MacFamilyTree 5.2 has been released.

Changes:

• See beta releases history.

Bee Docs’ Timeline 2.1.1 has been released.

New Features:

• French and German localizations.

iFamily for Tiger 2.387 has been released.

Changes:

• GEDCOM Import - Added an extra index to improve loading of large GEDCOM files. The time to load a GEDCOM file containing 143,000 people into an iFamily database has been reduced from 33 minutes to 10 minutes - using a 2.8 MHz Core-Duo Intel iMac with 2Gb memory under OS X 10.5. However, on a P4 running OS X 10.4 and only 500Mb memory this same GEDCOM file may take some hours to load! The crucial things for speed when loading very large GEDCOM files are (a) use OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and (b) have at least 1 Gb (preferably 2 Gb) of memory.
• Family Group Sheet - Added an option to include Event Notes.
• Descendants Diagrams - Added an option to include/exclude Adopted and Step children as descendants.
• Move Data Directory - The correct way to move the folder that contains the iFamily data is to use menu option File -> Move Data Directory. In V2.384 additional validation has been added to ensure that the location the iFamilyForTigerData folder has not been invalidated by the user using other methods to relocate this folder.
• People -> Notes Dialog - Added a Family Name filter.
• People -> Relationships Calculator - Added a Print button.
• People -> Relationships Calculator - Added a Family Name filter.

iScrapbook 1.6.1 has been released.

Changes:

• Printing of larger scrapbook albums is now much quicker and uses less memory.
• Worked around a problem in Leopard where PDF images would sometimes print low resolution.

Personal Ancestry Writer II v80 has been released.

Changes:

A Descent button has been added to the Pedigree window and a Pedigree button to the Descent window:
• If the person in the first (left-most) button in the Pedigree window has partners, clicking on the Descent button will close the Pedigree window and open the Descent window with that person in the large button, the current partner below, and any children of that couple in the buttons to the right.
• If the person in the large button in the Descent window has parents, clicking on the Pedigree button will close the Descent window and open the Pedigree window with that person in the first button and that person’s ancestors in the buttons to the right.
• And so on indefinitely until you cancel or you click on the person in the first button to make that person the current person.
• Interconnecting the Pedigree and Descent windows in this way will allow you to navigate up and down through a person’s relatives without changing the current person unless you wish to.
• As always, you can see a popup of vital events for any person in the Pedigree or Descent window by holding down the option key and moving the cursor over that person’s button.
A Print Family button has been added to the Descent window:

• If the person in the large button has a partner, clicking on the Print Family button will print a standard family group sheet for the that couple. If that couple has children and any of those children have one or more partners, you can also choose to print family group sheets for those children. You can also choose to print notes following each family group sheet printed.
• To save paper when printing, the Print dialog box in OS X allows you to choose Save as PDF in the PDF popup menu. The resulting PDF file can be opened in Preview or Adobe Reader. When you’re happy with the results, you can print from the PDF. It’s also possible to do something similar in OS 9.
The Pedigree window which is displayed when tagging or writing a lineage has been modified:
• The window’s features have been limited to the selection of the ancestor of the lineage.

Osk 4.31.0 has been released.

Changes:

• Much faster in displaying data.
• Much faster picture handling.
• Descendant report can display much more generations.
• Now displays more parents information.
• Now shows all parents children.
• Each parent child is specially marked on relation.

iFamily for Tiger 2.378 has been released.

Changes:

• Context Diagram - A cosmetic change - when a new person’s name is added by using copy/paste from a web page or word processor, then the data entry field immediately converts the string to plain text.
• Sources Pane - Added keyboard shortcut (R) to add a Source Reference from the current Selected Person to the current Active Source. If no Source is currently Active then it prompts you to activate one.
• Context Diagram and Ancestors/Descendants Diagrams - Added an option to set the main window colours to “Classic Colours” which have a grey title/frame, white background with zero gradient, pale grey dialogs. When a window is inactive the title/frame colour is now a paler shade.
• Ancestors and Descendants Reports - Corrected an error when generating RTFD files where some wrong thumbnail images could occasionally be displayed in the reports.

• Dialog Sizes - Corrected the initial size of the Transcription, Project Views Add/Edit and Dynasty Report dialogs for 13 inch screens.
• Sorting of Accented Characters - The sorts on fields that contain accented characters now use a localised sort so that characters such as O, and Ø (O slash) appear together.
• Export to GEDCOM - Custom tags for latitude, longitude and geocoding are now correctly excluded from the GEDCOM export based on the user’s preference.
• HTML Web Pages - Added a new menu option Reports -> Publish HTML Web Pages which creates an HTML web page for each person plus an index file (index.html). Each web page displays a navigable context diagram plus the database details for the selected person.
• HTML Web Pages - Many options have been included based on user feedback such as font face and size, background colour, random colours, colour gradient, generations of ancestors, width of context diagram, event notes, centred or left justified, inclusion of LDS Temple and Status for events, Source Reference Notes, table borders, exclusion of living and recently dead people (+number of years since death).
• HTML Web Pages - For large databases the Main Index file is split if there are more than 1000 people and the folders for HTMLFiles, Diagrams and Pictures will be split into separate folders when they contain more than 500 files. The HTMLFiles, Diagrams and Pictures are structured into sub folders.
• HTML Web Pages - Each person’s page may contain a Context Diagrams as either a JPEG image or as a Table. The Table option generates much smaller files and is much faster but not as pretty as the JPEG option.