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7 February 2012

The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding 9 Update Released

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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1 September 2011

The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding 8.1.3 Update Released

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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

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16 June 2011

Family Tree PHP 1.1.1 Update Released

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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

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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

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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).

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17 March 2011

Family Tree PHP 1.1.1 beta Update Released

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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).

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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

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14 January 2011

GeneoTree 3.34 Update Released

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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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