Genealogy Blog
7 February 2012
The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding 9 Update Released
The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding 9 has been released.
New & Improved:
• Look and Feel: Most page elements have been restyled for a more modern appearance.
• Templates: Three new templates have been added, and several of the older ones have been updated.
• Speed: The introduction of "image sprites" and other techniques should allow most pages to load significantly faster.
• Sharing: Social media icons will now allow visitors to your site to more easily "spread the word" (can be deactivated).
• Timeline: Several improvements to this page will make it an interesting destination for each person in your database.
• Google Maps: TNG is now using the latest Google maps engine (API 3). A developer key is no longer required.
• Geocoding: New places are now automatically geocoded with latitude and longitude info, and existing places can be geocoded in large batches.
• Rich Editing: Histories and other elements can now be composed in an inline "WYSIWYG" content editor.
• Media Sorting: New tools make it easier to organize your images and other media.
• Citations: Sources can now be created from the same screen where you cite them, and a "Copy Last" button allows you to easily re-cite the source you used most recently.
• Living & Private: New user rights allow you to distinguish access rights to these two groups of people.
• Mod Manager: Several upgrades make it a more intuitive process to add or remove third-party customizations.
3 January 2012
Family Tree PHP 1.2d Update Released
Family Tree PHP 1.2d has been released.
Fixed:
• Deleting a tree did not work via Ajax/Javascript.
• The HTTP headers sent with images where not completely valid.
• Some minor bugs.
3 November 2011
Family Tree PHP 1.2a beta Update Released
Family Tree PHP 1.2a beta has been released.
Fixes:
• Adding and editing multimedia records did not work.
• Some GEDCOM tags did not import properly for gedcom files imported from Brothers Keeper (_AKAN), GensDataPro (AKA) or Pro-Gen (_PATR, TITL, _TITL2, TITL3, _ALIA).
• Some minor bugs.
19 October 2011
Family Tree PHP 1.2 beta Update Released
Family Tree PHP 1.2 beta has been released.
Changes:
• CSS and Javascript optimization for IE9.
• Comments on pages and blog posts.
• When submitting a comment, a user can send a copy to his own email address.
• Urls for addresses and email addresses are clickable now.
• If a multimedia record does not have a TITL tag, the filename is set as title during gedcom import.
• And more…
11 October 2011
HuMo-gen 4.7 Update Released
HuMo-gen 4.7 has been released.
Changes:
• Added Google Maps integration.
• Two new end-user language interfaces were added: Norwegian (Norsk) and Finnish (Suomi).
21 September 2011
Second Site 4.1 Update Released
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Second Site 4.1 has been released.
Enhancements:
• Added the RSS Feed User Item which produces a list of entries from an RSS feed and can be used to show blog entries.
• Added the Page Section property to certain User Items to allow placing them in the SideBar or Extra sections of Custom Pages.
1 September 2011
The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding 8.1.3 Update Released
The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding 8.1.3 has been released.
Fixes:
• Associations: Deleting a tree did not delete the associations linked to that tree.
• Branches: The Delete option under Labeling was letting you submit the form without entering a Person ID.
• Calendar: The Calendar page was not displaying the right people if the visiting user was assigned to a tree.
• Cemeteries: Sending a non-numeric cemetery ID to the showmap.php page was causing it to return all non-headstone media.
• Dates: Dates were not being properly internalized if they contained slashes and had less than 4 digits in the year.
• Descendancy: The standard chart would not display properly if both parents in a family with children had the same gender.
• Merge: Merging people was not causing Associations linked to those people to also be merged.
• And many other fixes.
13 July 2011
Second Site 4.0 Update Released
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Second Site 4.0 has been released.
Enhancements:
• Added the Tag Groups facility
• Added the Flag Events facility which supports adding content to person page entries based on flag values
• Added the Virtual Witnesses facility
• Added the ability to group person page files into subfolders to reduce the number of files in single folder; see the Use Person Page Groups property in the Page Sizes section
16 June 2011
Family Tree PHP 1.1.1 Update Released
Family Tree PHP 1.1.1 has been released.
Changes:
• On descendants pages, when the number of generations was limited, the last generation was listed twice.
• The person links in the xml sitemaps were not correct (they redirected to the correct links though, but Google likes to have the correct links).
• A few minor bugs.
1 June 2011
GEDCOM2WIKI alpha Update Released
GEDCOM2WIKI alpha has been released.
Changes:
• Each character is now poperly separated by a pipe "|".
• Each person gets properly abbreviated and then defined at the end of the row where their box appears.
17 May 2011
Family Tree PHP 1.1.1a Update Released
Family Tree PHP 1.1.1a has been released.
Changes:
• The GEDCOM and image upload functions did not work in Internet Explorer 9.
• In some browsers, the user address fields were always required, even when set to not required.
2 May 2011
The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding 8.1.2 Update Released
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The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding 8.1.2 has been released.
Changes:
• Albums: Albums linked to places sometimes did not show correctly on the Place page (fixed).
• Albums: If an album did not have a default photo, it would cause an error on the page of any individual it was linked to (fixed).
• Albums: Thumbnails were not showing if any person linked to those photos were marked as "private", even if the visitor had rights to see them (fixed).
• Associations: Associations were only being displayed if notes were displayed with events (fixed).
• Calendar: In some cases the "Previous" month link did not work (fixed).
• Custom Event Types: Other language display values were not being saved with new records (fixed).
17 March 2011
Family Tree PHP 1.1.1 beta Update Released
Family Tree PHP 1.1.1 beta has been released.
Changes:
• Search function for events added. This will mean a relieve for many big installations, because searches on places and/or dates (without names) will now be much faster.
• Tools added to block the website temporary or enable a debugging modus.
14 March 2011
Ged2web 3.44 Update Released
Ged2web 3.44 has been released.
Changes:
• Added an option to output birth and death location in the generated index pages.
3 March 2011
Family Tree PHP 1.1 beta Update Released
Family Tree PHP 1.1 beta has been released.
Changes:
• Sources and Today in History RSS feeds added.
• Searches on surnames or places, linked from the tree statistics, are now filtered on this tree.
• When a person’s gender is unknown, the ‘U’ code is now used, and the gender field is now a required field for persons.
• An event’s value is shown before the event’s date and place.
• Family box added for edit family and delete family pages.
• When adding a new record, the chosen tree is stored in a cookie and preselected for the next new record.
• Dates without a year, but with a day and/or month are now stored as ‘0000-00-00′, to prevent problems with calculations.
• Database port can be set to a non default value during installation.
• Deleting tree process can be paused when the execution time limit is reached.
• If a gedcom import fails, the gedcom file line number where the error occurred is returned.
• Optimizing tables (after importing a gedcom or deleting a tree) is done via cronjobs.
• Resetting cache and privacy flags (after importing a gedcom or deleting a tree) is done via cronjobs.
• XML sitemaps added.
• A link to the home page can be added to header and footer menus.
• Context menu shows details count for events.
1 March 2011
webtrees 1.1 Update Released
webtrees 1.1 has been released.
Changes:
• The module/theme interface is changed (and incompatible).
• There is a new management interface.
• The Google Maps module uses the latest version 3 API.
• There are some performance improvements and reduced memory requirements.
4 February 2011
HuMo-gen 4.6 Update Released
HuMo-gen 4.6 has been released.
Changes:
• Added timeline report.
• Added full UTF-8 support
• Added Spanish end-user and admin interface
• Added full html 4.01 validation.
29 January 2011
The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding 8.1.1 Update Released
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The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding 8.1.1 has been released.
Changes:
• Ahnentafel/Register: Some strings including special characters were being displayed incorrectly under UTF• 8 (fixed).
• Albums: When adding media to an album, the image thumbnail was displayed with a fixed, smaller size (fixed).
• Albums: If more than one page of albums existed under Admin/Albums, subsequent pages were unreachable (fixed).
• Citations: New citations could not be added on systems running the latest version of MySQL (fixed).
• Diagnostics: The templateconfig.php file was in the list of files when the permissions were set incorrectly (fixed).
• Help: The Help pages did not use the custom style sheet (fixed).
21 January 2011
Second Site 3.4 Update Released
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Second Site 3.4 has been released.
Enhancements:
• Added the Indented Descendant Chart and Indented Pedigree Chart
• Added support for Web Fonts which expands the set of font families you may use on your web pages
• Reimplemented the Descendant Chart; this corrects some long-standing limitations like missing spouses in the last generation of the chart and counter-intuitive box placement when optimizing the chart; the Optimize Space property now supports three levels of optimization
• Added the Include Marriage Date property to the Descendant and Indented Descendant charts
• Added the Generation Number property to all Descendant and Pedigree charts
14 January 2011
GeneoTree 3.34 Update Released
GeneoTree 3.34 has been released.
New features:
• Upload gedcom files with local installation.
• Better display of media and sources : new picto sources in the list of actes, the list of sources can naviguate by pages, better titles in Excel exports.
• Descendancy tree : better performances and better Excel export (marriages array are integrated in main array).
• Generic : better navigability (all clics are memorized).
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