May 14th, 2008
May 14th, 2008
iScrapbook 1.6.1
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.
May 14th, 2008
Legacy Family Tree 7 to be released at NGS this week
Millennia Software announcement:
If you are going to be at the National Genealogical Society Conference this week in Kansas City, Missouri, we invite you to visit the Legacy Family Tree booth where we will be displaying the new features in Legacy Family Tree version 7.0.
In fact, Legacy 7.0 will be available for purchase as a special pre-release edition. You will be the first to try out Legacy 7.0’s new mapping, sourcing, and wall charting features (lots of other new features too - to be announced soon). This special pre-release edition is only available to attendees of the NGS conference.
When will Legacy 7 be available to everyone?
Okay, here’s a little more information than the “soon” answer….For those who purchased Legacy 6.0 from July 1, 2007 to the present, we will begin shipping your upgrades next week. There’s a lot of them to be shipped out, so thank you for your patience. Our hope is to make Legacy 7.0 available from our online store by the beginning of June.
May 14th, 2008
Legacy Charting Pre-Release 7.0.094
Legacy Charting Pre-Release 7.0.094 has been released.
New:
• Added the ability to display the Prefix and Suffix fields for names.
• Added DPI control for exported file types (50 DPI to 600 DPI).
Fixed:
• The sort order of children now follows Legacy’s sort order.
• Fixed sizing problems with PDF and export file types.
• In some Fan Charts, there was missing information for individuals.
• Fixed some problems with backgrounds and memory leaks. Should run even faster now.
• Fixed some printing issues.
May 14th, 2008
Genea 1.4.1
May 14th, 2008
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2008.1 build 80511
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2008.1 build 80511 has been released.
Fixed:
• Error relating to the “Report all first names” option which resulted in both first names and the middle initials being show in family tree charts.
May 14th, 2008
MacFamilyTree 5.1.7
MacFamilyTree 5.1.7 has been released.
Changes:
• The integrated search function now supports searching for dates.
• Fixes for the family chart.
• Fixes in the GEDCOM exporter.
• iPhoto Library import fixed.
• Adding new text to charts now works correctly.
• Minor other fixes.
May 14th, 2008
ohmiGene 2.20
ohmiGene 2.20 has been released.
Changes:
• New picture viewer with media handling (size, luminosity, etc.)
• Fixed a bug where marriage control was not updated when any of some multiple marriage was changed.
May 7th, 2008
Cognatio 1.3.2
Cognatio 1.3.2 has been released.
Fix:
• The standard event and attribute types were not initialized properly when creating a new database.
May 7th, 2008
Transcript 2.3.0 build 70
Transcript 2.3.0 build 70 has been released.
Besides fixing a number of bugs the main new features are:
• AutoContrast.
• Special characters dialog.
• Selecting part of the image (which selection can be pasted into the editor or in a separate window).
New features and bugfixes since version 2.2
Note: The French helpfile is not yet complete.
May 7th, 2008
Simple Family Tree 1.31
Simple Family Tree 1.31 has been released.
Changes:
• Fixes photo routine to work properly with Unicode characters.
May 7th, 2008
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2008.1 build 80505
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2008.1 build 80505 has been released.
Changes:
• All cousin distances are now precisely reported, e.g., “52nd cousin”. (Previously distances greater than 20 were narrated as “distant cousin”.)
• SEX tags which are invalidly specified as “Male” or “Female” are now interpreted as intending “M” or “F” respectively.
• The highest version of the Microsoft MDAC/ADO library installed on the user system is now used instead of version 2.5.
May 4th, 2008
Vatican letter directs bishops to keep parish records from Mormons
In an effort to block posthumous rebaptisms by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Catholic dioceses throughout the world have been directed by the Vatican not to give information in parish registers to the Mormons’ Genealogical Society of Utah.
An April 5 letter from the Vatican Congregation for Clergy, obtained by Catholic News Service in late April, asks episcopal conferences to direct all bishops to keep the Latter-day Saints from microfilming and digitizing information contained in those registers.
The order came in light of “grave reservations” expressed in a Jan. 29 letter from the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the clergy congregation’s letter said.
Father James Massa, executive director of the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, said the step was taken to prevent the Latter-day Saints from using records — such as baptismal documentation — to posthumously baptize by proxy the ancestors of church members.
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May 2nd, 2008
Personal Ancestry Writer II v80
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:
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May 2nd, 2008
Family Tree Maker 2008 SP3
Family Tree Maker 2008 Service Pack 3 has been released.
Enhancements/New features:
• Major enhancements in performance.
• Major enhancements in stability.
• Book layout in charts.
• Ability to create saved versions for all charts and reports.
• Ability to save user created templates for charts.
• Ability to apply predefined templates for charts.
• Enhancements to place interactions.
• New Find-and-Replace dialog.
• And much more…
Click Here for a more detailed view of the enhancements and bug fixes included in SP3.
May 2nd, 2008
GenSmarts 2.1.1.50
GenSmarts 2.1.1.50 has been released.
Changes:
• Added support for the Mid-Continent Public Library (Kansas City area).
• Fixed bug in “always start maximized” option.
• Improved reasonableness of making suggestions when the dates covered is not known.
May 2nd, 2008
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2008.1 build 80430
The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2008.1 build 80430 has been released.
Fixed:
• Error related to interpretation and conversion of non-Gregorian dates which are (i) expressed as month and year, or year only (i.e., no day number), or (ii) expressed as day and month without a year.
May 2nd, 2008
Preserving the Data Explosion: Using PDF
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), a UK-based not-for-profit organisation with the National Archives and the British Library among the membership, issued a report in which it called for PDF/A to be employed by organisations wanting to “be sure that their documents will be preserved for the long term”.
In the DPC’s Preserving the Data Explosion: Using PDF report, author Betsy Fanning wrote that “the development of PDF/A for long-term preservation of electronic documents is a logical use of the file format”. “When PDF/A is combined with a comprehensive records management program and formally established records policies and procedures, an organisation can be sure that their electronic documents will be preserved,” she added.
However, Fanning warned: “While PDF/A may be a suitable file format today for long-term preservation of electronic documents, it should be noted that there may be other file formats introduced in the future that may better serve the needs of an organisation. Therefore, organisations should be continually reviewing the available file formats to ensure they have selected the best format for their purposes.”
April 29th, 2008
GEDmill 1.10.3
GEDmill 1.10.3 has been released.
Changes:
• Added option to exclude byte-order-mark (BOM) from generated UTF-8 files.
• Pages are valid XHTML.
• Improved sorting of international characters in index page.
April 29th, 2008
Transcript 2.2.0 build 69
Transcript 2.2.0 build 69 has been released.
Changes:
• Some small interface changes and tweaks in Options so that there is more space for translations.
Version 2.3 is expected sometime in May 2008.
