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Brother's Keeper Changelog

What's new in Brother's Keeper 7.5.15

Apr 10, 2024
  • Changed: On Ancestor Chart screen, it will display Resided place on screen (before it would only show dates on screen and both dates and location on printout.)
  • Fixed: If you did Compute Relationship (from Edit) then closed it and picked File, Stop (from Edit) it would sometimes wrongly ask again for a person name or number.
  • New: Option to show program version sub number on Welcome screen. To turn on option, pick File, Options, it is at the bottom of the Dates tab.
  • Fixed: FIX for spouse on Descedant Report so does not show spouse birth place if option set for details excluded.
  • Fixed: on Indented report, if person had a not entered or blank spouse (person had children but no spouse) then it would duplicate the FindAgrave, Address, Todo, and Flag information for the descendant that had the blank spouse.
  • Note: If Tree print to PDF with huge paper, an error can occur if option for Continuous Paper is on. That option should not be on for PDF output.
  • Fixed: Fixed a couple other small things.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.5.14 (Oct 19, 2023)

  • New: If the sex of couple is wrong, click Male or Female and then there is a new option to change both sexes, and keep all children, sources, etc. attached.
  • Fixed: On the Compare Two Databases utility, added Cancel button when changing a Note
  • New: On the Relationship Box chart - option to print blue and pink colors on printer for boxes
  • New: On Word Search, Any Field, press F8 for new option to search Picture Headings, and Media Descriptions.
  • New: New option on Lists, Pictures/files attached to people - to Only show bad links to text, picture, media files
  • Fixed: Fixed a couple other small things.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.5.13 (Apr 20, 2023)

  • Fixed a problem with Group Sheet heading if doing multiple families in one report.
  • Fixed some line drawing problems in Box Chart - Household
  • Fixed some problems with Select Person screen that were caused in the 7.5.12 update.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.5.12 (Mar 18, 2023)

  • New language translation program is available for the translators.
  • Option on descendant Tree chart to remove blank lines to make it more compact.
  • The Family Group Sheet report has an option to enter a Heading for the first page.
  • Word Search Report, Flags tab allows searching for more than one flag at a time (must match all.)
  • Option on GEDCOM export for to pick GEDCOM 5.5 instead of 5.5.1 to be compatible with old Family Tree Maker program.
  • New button on Custom lists if you pick field for Paragraph 86, 87, 88 then button jumps to paragraph options.
  • New button on Custom lists if you pick field for Lablels 95, 96, 97 then button jumps to label options.
  • Added custom field 60 for 'Family BK Record Number' which is the marriage record number (not normally needed by most users.)
  • List of Surnames, option for paragraph format instead of columns.
  • Fixed on Word Search, Seach Event, the year range such as 1900==1905 was not working for Married and Divorced.
  • Some other minor bug fixes and changes.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.5.11 (Dec 5, 2022)

  • New report: List, all pictures or files attached to people or families.
  • The Ancestor Timeline now has new option to show BK code number.
  • Fixed: it was not showing *.PNG picture files when 'add picture' to Source.
  • On the citation picture screen, show event type, and person name and number also at the top heading.
  • Some other minor bug fixes and changes.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.5.10 (Apr 20, 2022)

  • Show BK code numbers for father, mother, spouses on Select Person screen if option is set for mother on a separate line
  • In List, Witness List, add 3 new options about sorting and last name first options.
  • Fixed a bug on the Media grid if you changed a line to Individual and then moved it.
  • Fixed a bug on Word Search, Make List to Edit. If the user did a Double click on the Edit button instead of a Single click on Edit it would cause an error.
  • Fix some problems for Norwegian version when searching with option for husband last name.
  • Some other minor bug fixes and changes.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.5.8 (Dec 18, 2021)

  • Fixed error on Backup with file CustomEvents.bk
  • Fixed on Word Search, Names and Relationship tab, the Alternate name search was not working for the bottom two types of searches (child/parent) and (child/father/mother) add button "copy to clipboard" if showing how a source footnote will look
  • Fixed on Ancestor Box chart, if a person had Christened, and below was a blank person, it would print that christened date in the empty box
  • If selecting a group of people on Alphabetical list or Birthday list, increase maximum to 1.6 million

New in Brother's Keeper 7.5.7 (Aug 25, 2021)

  • Fixed a bug where sometimes a Fact like Occupation or Census which had a dual date would lose the link to notes or sources (N or S to the right) if you inserted an event above that fact.
  • Fixed a bug where sometimes an RTF file for a Book report would not include the extra Family events like Census Family.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.5.5 (Dec 27, 2020)

  • Fixed a problem in General ToDo when deleting a line.
  • Can show both "from" and "to" dates on Custom lists if the date field is set to size 18 or more, and you use field number 100 or more (100 = born).

New in Brother's Keeper 7.5.4 (Oct 18, 2020)

  • New option to make Table of Contents for Register Book
  • Word Search, Any Field, new option for search for a Picture attached to the source attached to an event
  • When doing Split Database: The picture file names attached to Sources and Locations are included in the BKSplitList.TXT file
  • Added option in 'Compare Two Databases' to not compare FindAGrave and not copy FindAGrave
  • Fixed on the Utility to 'Search for Duplicated in the database': sometimes it would delete a Marriage event for the person on the left side when you were deleting people from the list of marked people
  • Fixed problem in Word Search, Any Field, if searching for for Pictures, but not notes
  • Source Grid has 4 options for which columns to show (pick Options), also 2 new columns with * if pictures attached to master or citation
  • New option on Options screen to show 'Date Added' on the Edit screen

New in Brother's Keeper 7.5.0 (Jul 23, 2020)

  • A new View option: Five Generation View/Browse
  • Option to make a Table of Contents for the Ahnentafel Book
  • Option to send the Indented Book Report to a HTML file
  • New List report to find everyone attached to one specific location
  • Option for Location Notes to print on Register Book, Indented Book, Ahnentafel Book reports
  • New button on the Children tab, and Siblings tab, to 'show all children from all marriages of both parents.'
  • Ancestor Chart can print '4 generations with pictures' and 'Inverted Pyramid 4 generations with pictures.'
  • New option on Descendant Tree chart for Male only or Female only
  • New option to show Notes on the Select Person screen

New in Brother's Keeper 7.4.6 (Dec 31, 2019)

  • New: it can print the FindAGrave number on Book reports now.
  • Fixed a problem with Ahnentafel Book with Siblings with Custom Marriage Event descriptions and with Divorce at the end, sometimes a Child showed info for the Parent or sibling above them who was also an ancestor.
  • New option to show 'div' if divorced on the Collapsed Ancestor BOX chart.
  • Fixed on the 'Compare Two Databases' utility, if change to Secondary Parents, it still showed blue color for 'to be deleted' if primary parents were set to be deleted.
  • New option on Ancestor Chart and on Bow Tie: Do not show locations on the printout.
  • Fixed on Box charts, if starting person had only 1 child, there was an extra line to the left of the one child.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.4.3 (Jun 8, 2019)

  • A new translation program is available for the foreign language translators.
  • New report: Descendant Box Chart – Household has children listed inside the box.
  • New report: Ancestor Implex / Pedigree Collapse show number of possible ancestors and what you have so far.
  • New Games: Surname Scramble, and Surname Word Search. Fun for reunions.
  • New menu items on Custom Lists to move a row up or down, or delete or insert a row.
  • Fixed: When doing a split or merge, if the marriage event had 2 or more witnesses, only 1 witness was copied.
  • New: On the Descendant Tree chart, option for Male only or Female only.
  • New: type only v or V in a location field to copy what is below (just like " or ' will copy what is above)
  • New: on the Sibling tab, click button at bottom to see All siblings based on all marriages of both parents.
  • New: "Match case" option for global search and replace of Text, Picture, Media (ignore case or match case)
  • Fixed: the 3 DNA events were not showing up on Utilities, Global Event Sort

New in Brother's Keeper 7.3.3 (Oct 25, 2018)

  • New: On the find person screen, option so that for married women it will also search last name of husband. (This option is not available for Norwegian and Danish versions because those versions already do 4 searches based on character set.)
  • Fixed: GEDCOM export if a source had a link to https: it was not exporting.
  • New: On custom lists, 'age of spouse when married' field 50

New in Brother's Keeper 7.3.1 (Apr 26, 2018)

  • New: New report: Descendant Spiral Time Chart.
  • New: MAP button on Location Details for the location name or the latitude and longitude. Double click a location name to go to Location Details.
  • New: MAP button on Event Notes to map an address or latitude and longitude
  • New: MAP button on Address tab on Edit.
  • New: new field 38 on custom reports "living people only"
  • New: on the Source screen added to top menu File, Show how this footnote will print or press F6
  • New: There is a new tab on the Book reports to also print Flag information.
  • New: There is a new Close button on the Preview screen.
  • Changed: If you are Adding a Witness and you type a BK number and the option is ON to add a Note to witness, then you can verify the name and Select before actually linking the witness.
  • New: Option on Bow Tie Ancestor chart to have different colors for left and right sides.
  • New: If you order the program on CD or USB it includes three new instructional videos. How to use Flags, How to use Word Search, How to use FindAGrave button.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.2.16 (Feb 14, 2018)

  • Fixed: The new feature for 'smallcaps' on the book reports had a problem if making RTF files and the name contained a single letter as part of the name, like J R Smith
  • Changed: Some small changes to make the non-English translations fit better on some screens.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.2.15 (Feb 4, 2018)

  • Fixed: On the Utility to compare two databases or search for duplicates, the button to move a note was not working in some language translations.
  • Fixed: When making HTML Group Sheets and excluding names of living people, the Index would sometimes show the name of a living spouse that had no birth date.
  • Translators: This version 7.2.15 can show new translation lines if you have the translation program dated Feb 2018

New in Brother's Keeper 7.2.14 (Jan 24, 2018)

  • Changed: On group sheet HTML output, if FindAGrave field, then have it be a link to the site.
  • New: The "L" column on Edit will also show L if the location has a Note or a Picture
  • New option on Gedcom Export to Exclude _FGRAVE (FindAGrave) from going into Gedcom file.
  • New field 38 on custom reports for "living people only"
  • Changed on the Backup routine to still write to bk_files.txt the names of ALL attached files, even if option is set to only backup changed files.
  • Fixed a problem with the FindAGrave button where sometimes it searched for a death date when there was no death date on the grid.
  • New option on Utility, Flag a group of people, to exclude spouses for 'Entire Branch'
  • Fixed a problem for users with character set 'Central Europe' on the 'select person' screen when searching Alternate names.
  • New option on Witness List to use Current or Married name for witness, instead of Birth name.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.2.13 (Nov 20, 2017)

  • Changed: Since the Select Person screen is now the same color as the Edit screen, there is a border around the Select Person screen to make it stand out more.
  • New: On the Compute Relationship screen, there is a new button to Save Options.
  • Changed: On the Tree Chart, the down arrow on the scroll bar will move down 5 lines instead of 10 lines. If you click in the middle of the bar, it will move down 40 lines.
  • Changed: The Ancestor Fan chart does a better job displaying Slovak or Czech characters.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.2.12 (Nov 15, 2017)

  • New: On Book reports, option to do smallcaps for all names.
  • New: Button on Options to show some sample screen colors to pick from.
  • New: The Ancestor Circle Chart has a new option to show 7 generations with first names for everyone.
  • New: On both the Ancestor Box Chart and the Collapsed Ancestor Box Chart there is an option to show Baptized date if birth date is unknown.
  • New: Option for colors on Collapsed Ancestor Box chart.
  • Fixed: Fixed a problem where some Russian last names were not being found when searching.
  • New: When doing a Word Search, and you click Create Report, there are two new options to sort in 'Death date order' or in 'Marriage date order' (if doing a marriage search.)
  • Changed: If you have the option set to automatically jump to the Edit screen when starting BK, then clicking the X in the upper right corner of Edit will stop the program and not ask if you want to stop the program. (Use the Close button to go to the main BK screen without stopping.)

New in Brother's Keeper 7.2.11 (Sep 16, 2017)

  • New: new option on Timeline (Individual) to include extra events from file: BKIndivTime.TXT Press F1 on that screen for help.
  • New: On the Witness grid, if the Witness type is OTHER, you can type in a description in the new right hand column and it will print that Other description when the witnesses print.
  • New: option on Tree chart to put full birth and death dates below the names instead of to the right of the names.
  • New: option to print address and todo items on Book reports.
  • Changed: allow F2 to also work from Events Grid to compute birth date, and added it to the Find menu at the top.
  • New: on the ancestor Fan chart, new option to show Baptised or Christened date if birth unknown.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.2.10 (Jul 14, 2017)

  • Fixed: On the 'All Relatives' report, if you asked for Alternate names, it had the wrong BK code number for people on the report.
  • New: The Reasonableness report will also warn you about "baptized before born" and "christened before born".
  • Changed: Made some changes about adding and searching for names containing special characters from central Europe.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.2.9 (Jun 6, 2017)

  • You can search for the FindAGrave text field on the Word Search screen. (Remember you can click that field and press F3 to find everyone that has something in that field.)
  • The FindAGrave field is exported to GEDCOM using the tag _FGRAVE
  • There is a new alternate name for the Names list on Edit: Tombstone Name
  • When you click the FindAGrave button on Edit, it will use the Tombstone name if the person has one, otherwise the Current name, or the Married name, or the regular top Name field.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.2.8 (May 19, 2017)

  • New: The new FindAGrave memorial number can be printed on Custom Lists (field 27), and can be printed on Group Sheets (the option is on the Notes/Children tab) and you can print it on the regular Ancestor Chart (the last item on the drop down list for 'Also show this event'.) You can also search for the number on Word Search if you pick the Any Event tab.
  • Fixed: The Ancestor Chart was showing a Custom Event, but not a Custom Fact. This has been fixed

New in Brother's Keeper 7.2.7 (May 17, 2017)

  • New: On the BK Edit screen there is a new 'FindAGrave' button to search the www.findagrave.com web site to see if there is a memorial or a picture of the tombstone for the person you are currently viewing on the Edit screen. If there is a memorial for that grave, then you can copy and paste the memorial number from that web site into the new text box on the BK edit screen so it will find the memorial faster the next time. The FindAGrave web site has links to 160 million grave sites (mostly in the USA) and more memorials are being added every day. When you click the button in BK it opens your own web browser and goes to the site and starts a search. If you do not want to see the findagrave button in BK, then click Options at the bottom right and turn off the option for FindAGrave.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.2.6 (May 5, 2017)

  • Fixed a problem on the List, Witnesses report where some witnesses were incorrectly listed as godparent.
  • Change: On the main BK screen, if you have more than one language file loaded for BK, you can click the button at the bottom to immediately change to the other language without going to the list of languages to pick from.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.2.5 (Apr 19, 2017)

  • Fixed a problem with Windows 10 users (after a Windows 10 automatic update) where BK was not able to determine if a folder or file existed. That caused errors when trying to create a new folder.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.2.4 (Apr 10, 2017)

  • Fixed a problem on the Descendant Circle chart that happened in certain languages only.
  • New: three optional top heading lines for Box Chart when making HTML file.
  • This version contains new translation files for Norwegian, Danish, French (Canadian), French (Europe), Czech, Slovak.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.2.3 (Mar 26, 2017)

  • (new) Works with new language files from the new translation program. (It may take some translators a few weeks to make a new translation.)

New in Brother's Keeper 7.2.2 (Mar 8, 2017)

  • (new) New report: Ancestor Bow Tie Chart
  • (new) New report: Ancestor Four Lineages
  • (new) New option: on the Edit screen (options) to show L column with L if the location has extra details available (currently it does not show if the location has a Note or a Picture)
  • (new) New option: on the Edit screen there is a new option to show the marriage/family number below the spouse button. Normally you do not need to know the family number for a couple, but if you need it, you can turn on that option.
  • (new) On the Edit screen, hover the mouse over 'date of last change' to see the Added date and if person was brought in using GEDCOM.
  • (new) On the Witness grid there is a new column for Witness, Godparent, sponsor, legal witness, informant, other
  • (new) New report under Lists, Birth Order Report - oldest to youngest.
  • (new) Birth date order is a 3rd choice after you pick on Word Search, Create Report.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.2.1 (Jan 24, 2017)

  • (new) New report: Descendant Circle Chart. (This was on version 7.2.0 which was shipped on CD in December.)
  • (new) Search for Duplicates utility, new menu item to show possible matches based on parents of merged people.
  • (new) Indented book report, two new options. One for Color for generations, and one for Table of Contents.
  • (new) Reasonableness report, new menu item to show one line at a time and click a button to ignore it in the future.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.1.16 (Oct 17, 2016)

  • (fixed) Fixed a bug that was only in version 7.1.15 on the Box chart causing an Overflow error.
  • (new) There is a new Option for the Edit screen to show a different symbol if a child or sibling was married, but had no children. You can pick Options from the bottom right of the Events/Facts tab to set the new option.
  • (changed) The Gedcom Export has an option to select which Alternate Names to export.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.1.15 (Oct 6, 2016)

  • (new) You can select which alternate names to include for Group sheets.
  • (fixed) In the Compute Relationship routine, if a person had over 20 generations of ancestors, it would sometimes not find a relationship between person A and B, but it would work between person B and A. Now it works both ways.
  • (changed) A huge Gedcom file will import 10 times faster in cases where there are over 600,000 names in the Gedcom file and you start with an empty database and the Gedcom IDs are numeric, not alpha-numeric.
  • (fixed) Fixed a problem with Split database, if you first select all people with range of numbers, then de-select people, it was leaving some people with blanks.
  • (changed) On the Collapsed Ancestor chart, the ancestor number can Start with a number higher than 1 now.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.1.14 (Aug 10, 2016)

  • (new) There is a new option to NOT show the new 'insert event' button on Edit screen. Click Options at the bottom right if you want to turn off that new button.
  • (fixed) When you use one of the previous 10 Sources, it will also remember the Quality field.
  • (changed) The Descendant Box chart can be 2400 boxes wide now, not just 1200.
  • (new) If your Windows display screen is size 1360 by 768 the Edit screen will be wider now.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.1.13 (Jun 6, 2016)

  • (new) On the Edit screen is a new button "Insert Event" to insert a event above the event that is currently marked with the >
  • (new) On the Edit screen, click Options for two new options. One option is to always open pictures with your default Windows program instead of the BK picture viewer. The other option is that when you click a N column to enter the first Event Note, it will automatically go into Edit mode for a new note (instead of you having to click the Edit button above the text.)
  • (fixed) On Tree chart and Box chart, if a child was marked as 'private - do not show that the person exists' it would sometimes put lines in the wrong place, or put people in the wrong place.
  • (fixed) When doing a Gedcom import, it sometimes did not convert the character set for linked Notes.
  • (new) In the BK picture viewer, you can pick File, Rotate left or Rotate right if your picture is sideways.
  • (changed) When doing a name search for ? ? it will now sort the list by last name, instead of first name. (It was by last name in BK 6 and now BK 7 does it that way also.)

New in Brother's Keeper 7.1.13 (Jun 6, 2016)

  • (new) On the Edit screen is a new button "Insert Event" to insert a event above the event that is currently marked with the >
  • (new) On the Edit screen, click Options for two new options. One option is to always open pictures with your default Windows program instead of the BK picture viewer. The other option is that when you click a N column to enter the first Event Note, it will automatically go into Edit mode for a new note (instead of you having to click the Edit button above the text.)
  • (fixed) On Tree chart and Box chart, if a child was marked as 'private - do not show that the person exists' it would sometimes put lines in the wrong place, or put people in the wrong place.
  • (fixed) When doing a Gedcom import, it sometimes did not convert the character set for linked Notes.
  • (new) In the BK picture viewer, you can pick File, Rotate left or Rotate right if your picture is sideways.
  • (changed) When doing a name search for ? ? it will now sort the list by last name, instead of first name. (It was by last name in BK 6 and now BK 7 does it that way also.)

New in Brother's Keeper 7.1.12 (May 9, 2016)

  • (fixed) When making a Register Book Report, the Roman numerals before the children names were not right justified when sending the report to an RTF file.
  • (fixed) If you had Custom Facts for a person, those Facts were not printing on Lists, Numeric Report or Alphabetical Report.
  • (fixed) Sometimes when doing a Backup, if a text file or picture file was not found, it would cause a Type Mismatch error.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.1.11 (Apr 1, 2016)

  • (new) New larger font on Edit screen for screen size 1280 by 854
  • (fixed) Fixed a problem on Edit that sometimes caused a family event to move to the top.
  • (fixed) On the Utility, Edit Custom Events/Facts, the Edit button there to change spelling was not working.
  • (fixed) FIX a bug (again) on Edit screen if change spouse and click S column it sometimes showed the source for the other spouse.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.1.10 (Mar 7, 2016)

  • (fixed) Fixed a problem if importing a FTM gedcom file that contains the ALIA tag with a NOTE

New in Brother's Keeper 7.1.9 (Feb 26, 2016)

  • (new) There is an option to add three new buttons on main screen for Person Edit, Family Edit, Family View. See File, Options, RTF/Other to add those 3 buttons.
  • (fixed) Fixed a problem where a search for a Ref Number sometimes took too long.
  • (fixed) Fixed a problem on the Individual Timeline, where if there were exactly 5 people with the same year, it would sometimes skip one person.
  • (new) New report from the main screen List, People marked as private.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.1.8 (Jan 5, 2016)

  • (new) Added a new Option under File, Options, Other to change the word 'Family' to 'Couple' for marriage notes, marriage pictures, etc. (This is only for the English language version of the program.)
  • (fixed) The starting person on the Ahnentafel report did not show the marriage or divorce date and place if the option was on to also show pictures.
  • (fixed) On the Utility to Compare Two Databases, the words 'has general source' 'has name source' 'has Family source' were not showing for the left person.
  • (fixed) Fixed a problem where the age at death was sometimes wrong on the Birthday list when including people that had died.
  • (fixed) The Backup routine also backs up the Pictures and TextFiles attached to Locations.
  • (changed) Ahnentafel Book with All data for Children, now there is an Option to show or not show pictures of child who is ancestor, since some still wanted the picture after the 7.1.6 change below.
  • (fixed) On the Descendant report, if one spouse was 'private', it would sometimes not print DIV. for a different spouse.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.1.7 (Nov 2, 2015)

  • (fixed) The previous version 7.1.6 was causing problems on the Edit screen for users that had the option set to NOT move marriage above died and burried.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.1.6 (Oct 26, 2015)

  • (changed) Ahnentafel Book when using the option to print All data for Children, do NOT show pictures or Event Notes for the child if it is the child who is also the ancestor elsewhere.
  • (fixed) Fixed a problem if changing the event Census to Census (Family) it was putting it at the top of the events for the spouse.
  • (changed) When pressing the 'context key' while editing a Note, it will pop up a menu to Copy or Paste.
  • (fixed) Fixed some problems on the Utility for Global Search and Replace when changing an Event to a Fact or a Fact to an Event.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.1.5 (Sep 8, 2015)

  • (new) For the Custom Reports such as List, Numeric Report and List, Alphabetical report, there are new fields for the 19 types of alternate names. Fields 401 to 419
  • (fixed) Fixed a problem on the Edit screen when adding a spouse or adding parents, if the option was set to add 2 marriage (family) events to new people, sometimes the second family event was incorrectly moved to the top above Born.
  • (fixed) Fixed a problem when adding a new person and it shows a list of matching names, the top name was not highlighted, so if you hit 'Select' it incorrectly added the person as new.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.1.4 (Aug 18, 2015)

  • (fixed) Fixed a problem on the Edit screen if there were several family events or family facts and the order was changed, sometimes the new order was not saved.
  • (changed) On the Select Person screen, the area at the bottom showing details about one person is wider now.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.1.3 (Jul 14, 2015)

  • Fixed:
  • Fixed a problem if a gedcom import had over 20,000 sources.
  • The descendant Box Chart, if it all fit on one page, was not centering the top person correctly.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.1.2 (Jul 14, 2015)

  • Fixed:
  • Fixed some problems with children on a Group sheet if the children or spouse were marked as 'private'.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.1.1 (Jul 14, 2015)

  • New:
  • New report Other: Relationship Box Chart.
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed a problem in the Norwegian or Danish versions if searching for a location and then cancel, the location changed to upper case.
  • Fixed a problem with Other, Individual Sheets, if you Saved Options, and then went to Other, Group Sheets, it did not show any Marriage or Family events.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.50 (May 23, 2015)

  • (fixed) Sometimes the Box Chart report gave error 5 if the starting person only had one generation of descendants.
  • (fixed) Fixed a problem where Group Sheet HTML files sometimes had a name in the Index even though the name was marked Private.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.49 (May 6, 2015)

  • Fixed a problem when searching for names when using the Danish or Norwegian language versions of Brother's Keeper.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.48 (Apr 25, 2015)

  • (new) Option on Ancestor chart to not show adoptive, step, or foster ancestors.
  • (new) On book reports, has new option for the word "Notes:" instead of just a blank line before notes.
  • (fixed) Fixed a problem when sorting a name Index for a report that was over 100,000 names.
  • (fixed) Fixed error on Ahnentafel book (with children option) if one spouse was Private causing subscript out of range.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.47 (Mar 24, 2015)

  • (fixed) Fixed a problem where the shortcut keys: CTRL+SHIFT+Letter were not working on the Select Person screen This problem started in the 7.0.45 update with the new feature of 10 drop down names.
  • (changed) On the Source Grid that shows the 10 most recently used sources, if you add or view a source with a different page number, it will show on the list of 10 even if the same source was there with a different page number.
  • (fixed) Fixed a problem in the Split Database or Merge Database routines where if a location had Pictures attached, or the new extra fields attached, they were not being attached to the location in the new database.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.46 (Mar 23, 2015)

  • (fixed) Fixed a problem on the Edit screen when clicking the picture in the upper right corner. This problem started in the previous update.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.45 (Mar 23, 2015)

  • (new) On the Edit screen, on the Picture tab where it shows a small version of the pictures, if you have more than 5 pictures, there will be a button on the right to show more pictures.
  • (new) The Utilities for Compare Two Databases and Search for Duplicates in Database are in color now.
  • (new) When you click the S column to see a list of sources for an event, it will let you add any of the 10 previous sources instead of just the 1 most recent source. (I needed to move those buttons to the bottom instead of the top.)
  • (new) When printing Alternate Names on a Book report, there is an option to include the dates for each alternate name.
  • (changed) When you stop the program or change databases, it will save to a file the last 10 name searches and the last 10 sources viewed so they they will be available the next time you run the program.
  • (fixed) Fixed problem where ALT+F2 was not working on the Select Person screen.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.44 (Mar 7, 2015)

  • (new) New report on the Ancestor menu to find all 'End of line ancestors'.
  • (new) New report on the List menu to find all twins. (Siblings born on the same day or 1 day apart.)
  • (new) On the Select Person screen (when searching for a name) there is a drop down arrow for the name field where you can select from the 10 most recent searches.
  • (fixed) Fixed two problems in the Utility to 'Compare two databases' where sometimes when moving a child from the right side to the left side, it gave an error saying it could not attach the parents correctly. Also fixed an error message sometimes when adding a spou

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.43 (Feb 25, 2015)

  • new: There is a new option on the Edit screen to mark a person as 'private'. Pick from the top menu Edit, Mark this pereson as private, then pick one of the four types of privacy. If a person is marked as private, then the information for that person will not be printed on several of the reports. The privacy will work on any report that currently has the option to exclude data for living people. The data for private people will be excluded on those reports even if you are not excluding data for living people.
  • new: There is a new option on the descendant Box chart to exclude data for living people.
  • fixed: A problem was fixed on the Reasonableness report where it was not finding siblings born less than 6 1/2 months apart.
  • new: If you pick Lists, Sources, Show everyone this is attached to: there is a new button to print all the citations for that one source.
  • fixed: Fixed a problem on Utilities, Find Duplicates in Database, if moving a spouse from the right to the left.
  • new: On the Book reports, it will not say (2) for a marriage if the first relationship was 'Not Married'.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.42 (Feb 2, 2015)

  • changed: Translators can translate new words (see the new translation program.)
  • new: File, Utilities, Edit Custom Event/Fact. Use this to make changes to your existing custom events and facts.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.41 (Jan 22, 2015)

  • (new) When you are making a Backup, there is a new option to only copy files that have changed since the last backup to the same location.
  • (new) When you are making a Backup, it will remember your settings for Text, Picture, and Media files.
  • (new) On the report: Lists, List of Surnames, there is a new option to select Ancestors of a person.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.40 (Jan 16, 2015)

  • (new) If you have specified Colors on the Edit screen with Options, then those colors will also show on several other screens in the program.
  • (new) On the Source edit screen, ctrl+; will insert today's date into the field you are typing in. That is CTRL plus semicolon.
  • (new) On the Edit screen when you are on the Events grid and you click Options, and the option is checked to save grid size, when you click Save Options, it also saves column width for Pictures, Media, Notes, Names, Children grids.
  • (new) Group sheet can print Media Description not just Media file name.
  • (new) Ancestor circle summary chart, has option to have starting person be called generation 0 instead of 1
  • (new) On the custom lists, there are four new fields: field 22 is spouse born date, 23 is place and 58 is spouse died date, 59 is place.
  • (new) On the Register Book report the option is saved for male only or female only if that option was set.
  • (new) On the Family Edit screen (View, Family Edit) if you hover the mouse over the Address button, it shows the address, if it hovers over Notes button, it shows first few lines of first note.
  • (changed) On Options for the Edit screen, if the screen size is large, it does not show the option about having a button for either Parents or Siblings since that option is only for small screens.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.39 (Jan 5, 2015)

  • Fixed: Sometimes the Descendant Box Chart would print a child name and not 'see children above' when you had the option set to not show duplicates caused by a cousin marriage.
  • Fixed: When typing in new text on the Notes tab for a person, pressing the TAB key was not moving the cursor.
  • Fixed: CTRL+X was not working correctly for Event Notes.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.38 (Dec 16, 2014)

  • Fixed: Sometimes the new option for printing names of Media files on the Group sheet was printing those of the parents and not the correct person.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.37 (Dec 13, 2014)

  • fixed: Fixed a problem where the cursor was not blinking when you tabbed to a location even if the option was set correctly.
  • fixed: Fixed a problem where if you had an empty database and went to Edit and picked the choice to convert from 6 to 7 the convert routine was not starting.
  • fixed: This version changes the French Canadian month abbreviations back to having the first letter not in uppercase.
  • new: This version has a new option on Group sheets to print the names of Media files that are attached to people.
  • new: This version will let you show two Occupations on a Custom List. If you put field number 178 two times on your fields to include, it will print the second occupation also.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.36 (Nov 13, 2014)

  • New: On the select person screen, there is a new Option, and if it is turned on, then you can type just the last name without having to type * for the first name.
  • New: With this version, if your data is in a folder DROPBOX or ONEDRIVE or GOOGLE DRIVE then the program will create temporary files in the Windows temp folder and not your data folder. Hopefully this will stop some errors when printing reports when data is in one of those folders. Let me know if that helps or not if you are someone using those folders.
  • New: On Lists, Numeric Report or Alphabetical Report there is a field 85 'first media file name' to print the name of the first media file.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.35 (Nov 4, 2014)

  • (new) For a long time, users have been able to add a Custom Event on the Edit screen using the Add menu. Now users can also add a Custom Fact. The difference is that a Fact has a Description and not a Location. These new custom facts can be printed on Group Sheets and Book reports. There are still some more changes to be made to the program before they work everywhere, but you can give feedback to John Steed if you have any problems.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.34 (Oct 28, 2014)

  • (fixed) Fixed a problem in Gedom Import caused by version 7.0.33 for the first 10 marriages imported.
  • (fixed) Fixed a problem when adding a brand new database, where the first links to a spouse did not show up unless you picked File, Re-Index Database.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.33 (Oct 28, 2014)

  • (fixed) Fixed a problem in Gedom Import where sometimes locations in the gedcom file that had latitude or longitude would cause an error message, or put the latitude and longitude with the wrong location.
  • (changed) The Gedcom Import used to slow down a lot if there were over 125,000 families in the gedcom file, but now it works faster up to 250,000 families.
  • (changed) The Utility that changes names to normal case will also work correctly with last names startin with O' such as O'Brien

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.32 (Oct 14, 2014)

  • fixed: Fixed a problem when searching for Sources using the Norwegian or Danish languages.
  • fixed: On the Compare Two Databases utility, it was not finding accented letters when searching the right side database if the new option was turned on to ignore accents when searching.
  • changed: The Re-Index routine is faster now for large databases (over 400,000 names or events or other records)
  • new: There is a new utility to 'Add country name to a group of locations' which is helpful if you are using the Origins report and it does not know what country people were born in.
  • fixed: Fixed a problem where if you Rearranged Spouses, it might not show the spouses for that person unless you did a File, Re-Index database.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.31 (Sep 23, 2014)

  • (fixed) Fixed a problem when adding new people on Edit if the option was turned on to ignore accents when searching for names.
  • (fixed) Fixed a problem when deleting or moving General ToDo list items.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.30 (Sep 22, 2014)

  • (fixed) This version fixes a bug in the 7.0.28 and 7.0.29 versions where when adding new people to a database, it would sometimes make blank lines in the event grid.
  • (fixed) Fixes a problem where if importing a gedcom file, if the file had a Resided event with a note, it might miss the next event.
  • (fixed) Fixes a problem on the Compare Two Databases routine if the event on the left had a dual date and the event on the right did not have a dual date, it might duplicate the date on the left.
  • (changed) This version has changes in the way that the database indexes are updated so that you should be able to add hundreds of new people to a database without having things slow down. If things are slow already, do a File, Re-Index database. Then with this version, the database indexes should stay more balanced to prevent a slowdown when adding new people.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.29 (Sep 8, 2014)

  • (fixed) Sometimes when adding a new person, a 'stop statement' error would happen. That error is fixed in this 07-Sep-2014 update. (I thought it was fixed in the 06-Sep-2014 version, so if you still have the error, get this 07-Sep-2014 version.)
  • (fixed) If the option is turned on to ignore accented characters in a name search, it also works for Alternate Names also if that type of search is turned on.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.28 (Sep 5, 2014)

  • (fixed) When adding a source, the button 'Add the previous source and x pictures' was only adding the first picture, but not other pictures.
  • (fixed) Fixed a problem if searching for locations when using Danish language.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.27 (Sep 3, 2014)

  • (fixed) Fixed a problem in version 7.0.26 which could cause a problem with the search index if you changed the spelling of the name of an existing person.
  • (changed) Faster search times when searching for a name in a large database.
  • (changed) The two other Views from Edit will show Married (civil) and Married (religious) and not just the normal Married event.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.26 (Aug 25, 2014)

  • Fixed a problem from 7.0.25 that gave a blank screen with OK button if starting BK7 for the first time.
  • Made the name search work faster for a very large database.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.25 (Aug 20, 2014)

  • (changed) Translators can translate new words (see the new translation program.)
  • (changed) Danish and Swedish language translations have new sorting for special characters. After loading 7.0.25 they should pick File, Re-Index database.
  • (changed) The Family View screen is larger (if you press F7 or pick View, Family View from the Edit screen to jump there.)
  • (changed) When searching for a name, if the Alternate name search option is turned on, it does a better job now when the first or last name contains ? or *

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.24 (Aug 12, 2014)

  • Changed: If you move the BK main window, and then stop BK, it will open the next time at that same position.
  • New: There is a new Utility to move all Marriage and other Family events down to the bottom of the Events grid for all people in the database.
  • New: If you have names with accented characters, and if you want all names with or without accents to be sorted the same way, then go to File, Options, Other, and at the bottom turn on the option to 'sort accented characters as if not accented' and then pick File, Save and Close and then File, Re-Index database. After doing that, you can search for Maria Smith and it will find the matching people whether the letters have an accent or not. Note that this option is not available if you are using the Norwegian language translation because that already uses a different system for special Norwegian characters.
  • Changed: On the Ancestor chart printouts, instead of always saying Spouse for the starting person, it will say Partner if they are not married.
  • New: On List, Numeric Report there is now a way to select only the people changed after a certain date.
  • Changed: When a gedcom import is done, it will index the files automatically.
  • New: On the Word Search screen, in addition to the AND and OR there is a NOT option now. You can search for Smith NOT John
  • Changed: If you pick File, Restore and it finds a BK6 database and not a BK7 database, it will offer to restore the BK6 database so that you can later convert it.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.23 (Jul 14, 2014)

  • (fixed) A change that was made in Gedcom Import in the 08-Jul-2014 version affected importing of Address lines. This versions fixes that problem.
  • (new) When the import of a gedcom file is done, it will automatically start the indexing of the files, unless it needs to ask if you want to view the ged.lst file.
  • (fixed) The Utility to Compare Two Databases would sometimes have an error if you where moving a spouse from right to left and the person on the left already had 2 or more spouses.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.22 (Jul 14, 2014)

  • (fixed) When using the Split Database routine and the Witness option was checked, sometimes a witness to a marriage event was missing.
  • (fixed) Sometimes a one page Tree chart would print a blank page two.
  • (fixed) When printing a Register Book report, and you had the option selected to move all children to the next generation, and if you were also printing pictures, sometimes the pictures would overlap.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.21 (Jul 14, 2014)

  • (fixed) When adding new names on Edit, it sometimes said Error 5 when making a list of matching names.
  • (fixed) Fixed a problem with Split Database if including Witnesses (if the witness was not in the selected group.)
  • (fixed) Fixed a problem when searching for matching names including Alternate names when adding new people.
  • (fixed) If excluding data for living people, do not put 'Living' in the RTF name index at the end.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.20 (Jun 26, 2014)

  • (fixed) If you are adding a Source and you select an existing source, then you change something that is not the Abbreviation and click Close and pick 'Change only for one person' it was giving error 'duplicate master source'. This has been fixed.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.19 (Jun 26, 2014)

  • (fixed) Fixed a problem when adding a new Note to a person on the Edit screen, and then changing it from Individual to Family and then clicking Edit to change the note.
  • (fixed) Fixed a problem where the descendant Tree chart would sometimes not print a person's name at the top of some pages.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.18 (Jun 26, 2014)

  • (fixed) Sometimes on Edit, if you Rearrange Spouses, the spouse names would not show until you stop BK and restart BK. This update fixes that problem

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.17 (Jun 26, 2014)

  • (fixed) On Edit, if you Rearrange Spouses, the spouse names would sometimes not show until you stop BK and restart BK. Also sometimes when you are adding a spouse to a new person, the spouse would not show until you stop BK and restart BK. (this version did not fix all possible problems, so see version 7.0.18 also)
  • (fixed) Reasonableness report, the problem of 'married after death' sometimes showed wrong BK number for spouse.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.16 (Jun 26, 2014)

  • (fixed) On Register Book Report, if you had these 3 options set: 'Show children that do not have children in the next generation also' and 'Excldue data for living people' and you did NOT have set 'Separate paragraphs for husband and wife' it would sometimes not show the children.
  • (fixed) Fixed a bug where Backup sometimes gave error 'Event note file not found' if you did not have Event Notes.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.15 (Jun 26, 2014)

  • (fixed) Fixed a bug that caused Gedcom Export to go slowly when an option was set to 'exclude data for living people'.
  • (changed) Increased the number of names that can be sorted from 1.3 million to 1.5 million.
  • (changed) To close the Source screen you can press Alt+O instead of Alt+S because Windows 8 was using Alt+S for something else.
  • (fixed) Fixed bug when trying to find or change path for pictures attached to sources. The bug affected both 'Fix picture path' and 'global search and replace, picture path' regarding source pictures.
  • (fixed) Fixed bug when backing up data, it was not backing up pictures attached to sources.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.14 (Jun 26, 2014)

  • (fixed) If the Select Person screen is set to search names when typing 5 letters of first and last name, it will also work if one has 5 letters and the other has less than 5 and an * or if one has 4 letters or less for short names.
  • (changed) The Backup routine will also backup the files that list the numbers available to be reused, and the Restore will restore those files.
  • (new) New option on the Descendant Marriage Record Report to 'not show birth date or location for child with no spouse.'
  • (fixed) The Polish version was not finding names starting with special Polish characters.
  • (fixed) When you click the W column to show Witnesses, it was not showing the Birth and Death dates of the witness.
  • (new) For Norwegian users, there is a new option under File, Options, RTF/Other, to 'Sort names using Norwegian alphabet' even if switching temporarily to English.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.13 (Jun 26, 2014)

  • (fixed) The previous version 7.0.12 might damage a Note that was changed from Individual to Family if you run Quality Check, so get 7.0.13 before running Quality Check.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.12 (Jun 26, 2014)

  • (fixed) If you picked List, Numeric Display or Unconnected People or People with Secondary Parents, and then you clicked Print or File, Create TXT file, it would give an error message, but still output correctly
  • (changed) If you have the option set to search names by typing 5 characters for first and last name, and if you type 4 because one name is only 4 characters long, it will find those people
  • (fixed) If you entered a name starting with a Czech or Slovenian letter such as Š or another character that is not a simple accent, it was giving an error sometimes
  • (fixed) Sometimes changing the view from Edit to Family Edit would give an error that the person number was too large

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.11 (Jun 26, 2014)

  • (fixed) This version fixes some problems with searching for names or locations in the Norwegian language version.
  • (changed) Quality Check gives better directions about what to do if two people point to the same internal textfile. (English gives better directions now, and other translations will soon.)

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.10 (Jun 26, 2014)

  • (fixed) When adding a child on Edit, sometimes M / F did not work to enter the sex.
  • (changed) When adding a source and the master source list is showing, you can press the down arrow to browse down without having to first click the list box.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.9 (Jun 26, 2014)

  • (improved) This version allows you to add up to 10 flags to each person instead of 5 flags.
  • (fixed) Sometime the Split Database routine was not coping all of a long note for a person.
  • (fixed) On File, Options, Edit Screen 1, the 'Do not use Western script for fonts' script name was too high.
  • (fixed) The Age of the person was sometimes not showing on the Compare Two Databases routine.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.8 (Jun 26, 2014)

  • (fixed) If you picked Edit, Rearrange Spouses, then when you were done, it would sometimes not show anyone on the Spouse field until you stopped the program and restarted the program.
  • (fixed) On the report Lists, Unconnected people display, it would start right away and include people that were witnesses. Now it waits until you click Start and will not include witnesses if the option is checked to not include them.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.7 (Jun 26, 2014)

  • (mailing) Version 7.0.7 (or newer) is being mailed out on CD to users that purchased BK 7 before March 15 and were mailed an eariler version.
  • (fixed) If you went to an existing Event Note and changed only the Print Where field, it would sometimes delete the note.
  • (fixed) If you added a witness to an event, it would not add a second Note to the witness if the witness already had a note.
  • (fixed) If you are adding a new person and you type in a number that was previously deleted, it was not linking the person correctly sometimes. (The BK7 program was designed to reuse numbers without you typing in a number.)

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.6 (Jun 26, 2014)

  • (changed) The Convert routine tells you that you may want to move the pictures if they were located below the BK6 database.
  • (fixed) If you add a source and pick an existing source, then change it and say make it a global change, it added the wrong source.
  • (fixed) When starting BK7 for the very first time, it would copy over the options from 6 to 7 and then if it was set to automatically go to Edit when starting, it would give an error.
  • (fixed) When listing sources and you click 'show everyone this souce is attached to' then double click a marriage source it sometimes gave error xcode larger than max.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.5 (Jun 26, 2014)

  • (fixed) During Backup if a text file was not found, it gave the wrong person number in the error message
  • (fixed) Origins report looked for USA but not U.S.A
  • (fixed) Word Search, select person showed wrong spouse name sometimes
  • changed) Ancestor fan chart lets you say the starting person is some number besides 1

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.4 (Jun 26, 2014)

  • (fixed) Fixed some problems when jumping from Family Edit back to Edit.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.3 (Jun 26, 2014)

  • (changed) Custom Lists will make default BK number column width 7 if database is over 1 million names.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.2 (Jun 26, 2014)

  • (fixed) Custom Lists were only printing 30 characters for Ref Number even if it was longer.

New in Brother's Keeper 7.0.1 (Jun 26, 2014)

  • (fixed) Ancestor box chart, if location was too long, it just cut it off. Now it uses the short name if there is one, or it removes words from the middle.
  • (fixed) Fixed 'all relatives' report spouse names.
  • (fixed) Fixed individual timeline, if asked for married names.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.6.16 (Jun 10, 2014)

  • Fixed:On Register Book Report, if you had these 3 options set: 'Show children that do not have children in the next generation also' and 'Excldue data for living people' and you did NOT have set 'Separate paragraphs for husband and wife' it would sometimes not show the children.
  • Changed: On Other, Graphic Charts if click File, Print with wide screen, move chart to left before printing on paper so it fits.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.6.15 (Mar 10, 2014)

  • (changed) Added 'legal name change' to: Utilities, global event sort
  • (fixed) Fixed some problems when jumping from Family Edit back to Edit.
  • (changed) Custom Lists will make default BK number column width 7 if database is over 1 million names.
  • (fixed) Custom Lists were only printing 30 characters for Ref Number even if it was longer.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.6.14 (Mar 10, 2014)

  • (fixed) Descendant report, when printing 'children of' it now will remove [ ] from names.
  • (fixed) Gedcom import would sometimes give error 'input past end of file' reading some FTM gedcom files.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.6.13 (Dec 27, 2013)

  • Fixed a problem that started 2 weeks ago with Gedcom Import of notes. It was making blank lines in the grid, or causing an error message.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.6.12 (Dec 11, 2013)

  • This version will show any changes made by the translators using the new translation program dated December 2013.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.6.11 (Nov 11, 2013)

  • (new) The Indented Book report will print the parents of the starting person.
  • (fixed) Fixed a problem on the Descendant Marriage Record report if the spouse had [ ] in the name.
  • (changed) For Group Sheet HTML output, make more space for pictures of child.
  • (fixed) Also fixed some problems when finding Carriage Returns in source Title, Author, Abbreviation, or Page fields for gedcom export.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.6.10 (Aug 3, 2013)

  • (fixed) When on the Edit screen, the Notes font size was sometimes changing if you went to the Ancestor Chart and then returned to Edit.
  • (changed) Gedcom. BK will import and export a blank Marriage and blank Engaged event. (Events with no date and no location.)
  • (changed) On the Edit screen, if you add a new person, it will blink the cursor at the beginning of the first date field.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.6.9 (Jul 18, 2013)

  • (new) If you are on the Edit screen and you click a picture, and that picture has a heading in the grid, then the heading will show when the picture is displayed full screen. (You can turn it off by clicking File, Do not show comment box.) Also if you pick File, Print, you can print that heading with the picture.
  • (changed) Gedcom import will accept the tags 'PEDI ADOPTED' and 'PEDI FOSTER'
  • (changed) Gedcom import will created events for Divorce or Annulled even if those events have no date in the gedcom file.
  • (fixed) Fixed a problem where 'count of descendants' sometimes gave error 75 if there were over 60,000 people.
  • (fixed) On the Book reports, when using custom wording for marriage events, two problems were fixed. One involved the Engaged event, and one involved Not Married.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.6.8 (Apr 25, 2013)

  • (new) If you pick Lists, Locations, and then Print, there is a new option to show the Latitude and Longitude fields for locations. (If you have entered them.)
  • (fixed) Fixed a problem where going to the Edit screen would cause an error for very large monitors.
  • (fixed) Fixed a problem with gedcom import if the gedcom file had a Source that had a Media field of Tombstone, it would show as Photo.
  • (fixed) Fixed a problem where sometimes a gedcom export of notes would cause problems in the rare case of a note that had a line feed without a carriage return.
  • (fixed) On the Utility to Compare Two Databases, it would sometimes say the Parent type was different for two people when it was not different. Also dates for children or siblings were showing as different if only a space was different before the birth date even if the Option was set to ignore that.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.6.7 (Feb 22, 2013)

  • (new) There is a new option to exclude data for living people on the descendant Tree chart.
  • (fixed) Fixed a problem on Group Sheets with all pictures at the end, where it would sometimes print a blank page after a full page of pictures.
  • (changed) When you are adding a new person on Edit and it creates the default events, the cursor will be blinking in the Date field for the first event.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.6.6 (Jan 21, 2013)

  • (new) New field 49 on Custom Lists for 'Age when married'
  • (fixed) Ancestor chart did not have color in generation 6 on the printed 6 generation chart.
  • (fixed) Descendant chart when making RTF file after the words [children of X and Y] it did not have carriage return so child was not on next line. (RTF only)

New in Brother's Keeper 6.6.5 (Dec 6, 2012)

  • (changed) Two ways to print Location Notes on Group sheet. One way prints the location name before printing the note.
  • (fixed) Fixed a problem of 'overflow' if you picked Location Notes on group sheet and you have a large database.
  • (fixed) The Ancestor Chart was missing the Option for displaying 5 instead of 6 generations (Missing since version 6.6.3).

New in Brother's Keeper 6.6.4 (Dec 3, 2012)

  • (fixed) The 6.6.3 version would sometimes stop the program when making HTML files for the Ancestor Chart. That has been fixed now.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.6.3 (Nov 30, 2012)

  • (new) Can print Location Notes on Group Sheets (at the end of the group sheet.) Location notes are notes you attach to a location name by double clicking the location and adding a note.
  • (fixed) Fixed a problem on the Index for the Descendant Marriage Record report. Sometimes the index would repeat 1 or 2 or 3 names at the top of the second column of names. (Names from the bottom of column one.)
  • (fixed) The HTML files for the Ancestor Chart would always use white for the background color unless you specified a different color. Now you can type NONE for the color if you want.
  • (new) You can print the Ancestor chart with names in different colors.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.6.2 (Nov 26, 2012)

  • (new) The Descendant report has a new option to print names in color based on the flags or on male/female.
  • (fixed) The Box Chart HTML output option was not letting the user change the drive letter or create a new folder.
  • (fixed) Sometimes the Descendant Marriage records report left the [ ] characters in a name.
  • (new) Gedcom can export and import flags.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.6.1 (Nov 1, 2012)

  • (new) New Utility to search for Duplicates in the database and help merge them.
  • (new) New report Descendant (Marriage records) to show marriages information with spouses, parents of spouse, and children.
  • (new) New report Missing Sources to show all events that do not have a source attached.
  • (new) The Descendant Box Chart has a new option on the File menu to create an HTML file of the box chart with pictures.
  • (new) The Descendant report has an option on the File menu to send the report to an RTF file.
  • (new) New Utility to 'fix text file path'
  • (new) When printing the ToDo list, there is a new option to print all Status, except for Completed. (All non-completed statuses)

New in Brother's Keeper 6.5.17 (Sep 21, 2012)

  • (new) Added option to 'show burial date if death unknown' on the Tree chart.
  • (changed) Added about 25 new lines for the translators to translate.
  • (changed) Added some new options for the beta testers of 'Search for Duplicates' utility.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.5.16 (Sep 3, 2012)

  • This version has changes for the language translators so that they can update the language files. It might take a couple weeks before the translators get their versions ready. The new translation program is also available.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.5.15 (Aug 31, 2012)

  • (fixed) Fixed a bug in version 6.5.14 where the Spouse name was not printing on Box charts when printing to paper.
  • (new) Added an option to show if descendants are Adopted, Step, Foster on the Box chart.
  • (changed)) When printing a List of Sources, it now puts the word Author, Title, Comments, etc. before the text it is printing.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.5.14 (Aug 24, 2012)

  • (fixed) Fixed a problem of overlapping pictures with the new feature on the Register Report for showing all children in the next generation.
  • (new) Added an option to show Divorce on the Tree chart, Box chart, and 4 Family Box chart.
  • (new) Added an option to show if descendants are Adopted, Step, Foster on the Tree chart.
  • (new) Added an option to show if children are Adopted, Step, Foster on the Group sheets (but not when using the compressed option for children.)
  • (new) On the Compute Relationship screen, add new button to set options for Box chart
  • (new) Option to show occupation, ref. num, or dates for parents of spouses on Register Book and Indented Book report (notes/children tab)

New in Brother's Keeper 6.5.13 (Aug 4, 2012)

  • (fixed) Fixed 2 problems with the new feature on the Register Report for showing all children in the next generation.
  • (changed) Changed the routine for searching for Alternate Names to try to speed up the version from 6.5.12

New in Brother's Keeper 6.5.12 (Jul 30, 2012)

  • (fixed) Fix error 70 if making PDF file (with index) for register report book.
  • (changed) The select person screen shows up to 6 spouses instead of 3.
  • (changed) When printing Group sheets or Book reports remove ,,, from the front of locations.
  • (fixed) Fixed problem on Edit with screen size 1280 by 1024 where right scroll bars were not showing.
  • (changed) Global search and replace can change Event to Other.
  • (changed) On gedcom export if excluding data for living people, and if a person has NO dates, (but spouse is living) then do NOT say "details excluded" since there were no details.
  • (new) Register Book. New option to show all children in next generation (even if they had no children of their own.)
  • (changed) On the select person screen show spouse baptized or christened date if birth is blank.
  • (changed) Added 'Legal Name Change' to Events. This is an event instead of being just a name change on the Names tab. However, if you are searching for alternate names, it will also look for this event along with the names on the Names tab.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.5.11 (May 10, 2012)

  • (fixed) The 6.5.10 version sometimes gave a 'subscript out of range' error for Box charts.
  • (changed) On Group Sheets, if you are printing 'All' for children, it used to say 'spouse' but now it will say 'husband' 'wife' 'partner' 'fiancee'
  • (changed) On Group Sheets, if you are printing 'All' for children and printing Children notes, it used only print Individual notes for the child, but now it will also print Family notes attached to the child.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.5.9 (Apr 24, 2012)

  • (changed) Gedcom export, new option (combobox) to exclude data for anyone born recently, whether living or not.
  • (fixed) Fix the 'subscript out of range' error if sorting a family with over 30 children.
  • (fixed) On the Birthday report, it would sometimes change the name of a female to the last name of a fiancee.
  • (changed) Added button to 'open with default picture program' to source picture screen.
  • (fixed) On the new 6th generation for the Ancestor chart display, it sometimes did not have the correct numbers. Also you can click people in the 6th generation now. There is also an Option under Options to only show 5 instead of 6 for those people that do not want to see a smaller font size in the 6th generation.
  • (fixed) On the Group sheet report, if printing Ancestors, it would sometimes not print the first person.
  • (changed) On the Group sheet, instead of just Husband or Wife, it will print Partner or Fiancee.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.5.8 (Apr 24, 2012)

  • (changed) It can show 6 generations on the screen for ancestor chart if 1024 by 768 or larger
  • (fixed) On the Edit screen, if adding a spouse in place of a 'not entered' spouse, and you pick an existing person, it was adding the marriage events to the first spouse not the current spouse.
  • (changed) When you create a gedcom file, the program will also make a file called BKGedcomPicMedia.TXT with a list of needed pictures and media files.
  • (fixed) In the utility to compare two databases, the right side was not showing the "primary" spouse if one was designated.
  • (fixed) When you add a child's last name using CTRL+Enter the program will move the cursor to end of name.
  • (changed) The Source select screen and the source edit screen are larger if you are using 1024 by 768 screen size.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.5.7 (Feb 29, 2012)

  • (new) New option on the Collapsed Ancestor Chart to show if the couple was divorced.
  • (fixed) The Compute Relationship Box Chart would sometimes not make the box wide enough if the spouse name was the longest.
  • (fixed) On the Gedcom Export, fixed a problem where it would sometimes split a double wide character between note lines.
  • (changed) On the Edit screen on the Media tab it will say 'File not found' if it can not find the media file when you try to view it. )

New in Brother's Keeper 6.5.6 (Feb 29, 2012)

  • (new) New under File, Utilities, to do a Global sort of marriages. This is useful if you do a gedcom import and the marriages for each person are not in the correct marriage date order.
  • (fixed) Fix error 53 from happening when you are printing reports if some temporary .dta or .dat files were 'read only'
  • (changed) On the File, Statistics screen, added the number of source citations.
  • (new) When doing a Backup, it will create the file BKFileNotFound.txt to show the file names of text or picture or media files that were not found. (Files that are attached to people, but not on the drive where they should have been.)

New in Brother's Keeper 6.5.5 (Feb 29, 2012)

  • (fixed) The new version of FTM makes gedcom files that might cause 'input past end of file' errors in BK, so that has been fixed.
  • (fixed) When using the utility to compare two databases, sometimes when adding a second spouse it would still show the marriage date for the first spouse.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.5.4 (Feb 29, 2012)

  • (new) The File, Quality Check routine has two new options, so it will not stop for those two items each time you run it. (In case you already know about those two problems, and you do not want it to stop for those.)
  • (fixed) Sometimes the shortcut key CTRL+Shift+H was not working correctly on the Source screen. (if you had assigned something to that key)
  • (fixed) Sometimes the Ancestor chart display made the font too small for the last generation.
  • (fixed) On Gedcom Import it was importing 1 ALIA tag OK, but it was saying it was not imported.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.5.3 (Nov 15, 2011)

  • (new) The Gedcom export and import handle adopted, step, or foster settings from the Edit screen.
  • (fixed) Fixed some problems when making HTML files for Group sheets regarding children with only one parent.
  • (fixed) On the Edit screen, if you first changed events for a person, then you deleted a child connected to that same person, it was not saving the events.
  • (fixed) Changed color of the new button on Picture tab on Edit screen (if you have set special colors for buttons.)

New in Brother's Keeper 6.5.2 (Nov 15, 2011)

  • (fixed) 10-Oct-11 Fixed a problem on the Select Person screen when clicking Options, the Options screen was too far to the right.
  • (changed) When printing the Ahnentafel Book with the option to also print all information for children, it was sometimes printing more than it needed to. Now it will not print details for a child if that child is also an ancestor and is printed elsewhere with the details.
  • (changed) On Ahnentafel Book, it was sometimes printing the Notes for a spouse even though that same spouse is also an ancestor.
  • (new) There is a pop up tooltip for the Comments box on JPG pictures that tells how to turn off the option to show the comment box.
  • (new) This verson will shows words like Partner and Fiance instead of just Spouse on the Select Person screen.
  • (fixed) On the ahnentafel book, if using the 4th choice for 'he married' it was not printing a general family source if there was a marriage date.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.5.1 (Sep 24, 2011)

  • (changed) The Utility to globally change one event name to another event name will work to change Other (with description) to Event (with location) now.
  • (new) On the Edit screen on the Picture tab, there is a new button to open the picture with your default picture program.
  • (new) Normally when you do a Gedcom import, the people have new numbers assigned in BK. However, if need to keep the same numbers that people have in the Gedcom file, then press the F3 key on the gedcom options screen before importing the gedcom file.
  • (new) When you click a picture on the Edit screen and BK shows it on a separate screen, it can show Comments if there are comments built into the JPG file. To turn off the comments, pick File from the top menu.
  • (fixed) On Ahnentafel book report, if doing children full data, and if doing notes, and if there was a Family Note, it would sometimes print the family note before the data for the spouse.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.5.0 (Sep 19, 2011)

  • (fixed) Fixed a problem with the 'Locations with Events' routine where a custom family event was not showing correctly.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.4.33 (Sep 19, 2011)

  • (fixed) Ahnentafel book with children, born and died only, if the option was on for full month names, the death date was not the full month.
  • (changed) This version puts the headings in a comma delimited file made from Lists.
  • (changed) The button shows Partner and Fiancee on the Compare screen instead of just Spouse.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.4.32 (Aug 23, 2011)

  • (changed) There are a few more words in this version that were changed from English to whatever language you are running.
  • (changed) This version uses the word 'copy' instead of the word 'move' on the compare screen when you are copying information from one side to the other.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.4.31 (Aug 16, 2011)

  • (changed) There is a new translation program for the translators, and they can use this version when testing their new lines.
  • (fixed) On the Ahnentafel Book, if printing full information for children of ancestors, it was not printing individual events for spouses of children.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.4.30 (Aug 8, 2011)

  • (new) This version has a new feature under File, Utilities, Compare Two Databases. It will compare your main database with a different database and show you what is different, and let you move data to your main database.
  • (new) On the Edit screen the button used to always say Spouse, but now the button will say Spouse or Partner or Fiancee depending on what events are attached to the couple.
  • (new) There is a new option on the Book reports to change the month names to the full month name spelled out. That option is at the bottom of the tab that says "Notes/Names".
  • (fixed) There were some changes on the Book reports for the way engaged couples or common law couples print.
  • (fixed) Fixed a problem with gedcom import for French users.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.4.29 (Jul 18, 2011)

  • (fixed) If you were printing a Book report and not using the English version of BK, and if you were using the new Custom Wording for marriage events, then if a couple did not have a marriage date or location, it would sometimes print "Married" in English.
  • (fixed) If you were printing a Descendant Box Chart and you had the option turned on for Pictures and also the option turned on for show which spouse produced which children, the picture would sometimes overwrite the spouse number.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.4.28 (Jul 8, 2011)

  • (fixed) Fixed a problem on Gedcom Export in cases where you had something in the Last Name field, and there were words in the name field after the last name. It could cause the last letter in the name field to not be included in the words after the last name. For example if the name was JOHN SMITH THE GREAT and if SMITH was in the Last Name field, then the gedcom export might leave off the last T in GREAT. This was only happening in the previous two version updates.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.4.27 (Jul 8, 2011)

  • (fixed) The 6.4.26 version had a bug if you happen to have any names that are only one word and that same word is in the Last Name field. It can cause error 5 on some book reports or gedcom export. For example the full name is only SMITH and you have SMITH in the last name field. This version fixes that problem.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.4.26 (Jul 8, 2011)

  • (fixed) When making HTML files for group sheets it was not showing family picture for the spouse if the spouse did not have individual picture.
  • (fixed) Fixed problem of extra space on Register Book lineage if showing only first name, and the person had something in the Last Name field.
  • (fixed) The Numeric Display and Alpha Display can show Russian, Baltic, Hebrew, and characters from Central Europe.
  • (changed) Changed MEDI tag in gedcom to be 3 MEDI below 2 CALN instead of 2 MEDI
  • (changed) On the Source screen, if NO non-blank field is checked, warn the user that nothing will print on a footnote.
  • (changed) When adding a new person, it looked for Alternate names ONLY if there was at least 1 person with that as the main name. Now there is an option to show matching alternate names even if no one has that for the main name.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.4.25 (May 27, 2011)

  • (new) On the Lists, Word Search report, new tab for 'Name and relationship' where you can search for siblings, or child and parent.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.4.24 (May 23, 2011)

  • (fixed) Fixed a bug in the gedcom import routine (that started with the 6.4.18 version) where sometimes Notes in certain types of gedcom files were not all imported.
  • (fixed) Fixed a problem where sometimes you would get error 52 'bad file name' if you went to Edit right after doing a Gedcom import.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.4.23 (May 2, 2011)

  • (fixed) Fixed a problem on the Custom Lists where if you were printing the Flags for a person, it would sometimes have the wrong flags if you printed a column to the left of the flag column that contained the name of the spouse, father, or mother.
  • (changed) On the Register Book, there has been an option when showing lineage back to show either the first name or first and middle names. Now if you ask for first name, it will check the 'First Name' field for that person to see if that person has a two part first name and it will use that instead of the first word in the name.
  • (fixed) On the Ahnentafel Book, if the user picked the 3rd or 4th options for the 'he/she married' option, it would print all family events before the spouse name was printed.
  • (fixed) If using the new Custom Wording on a Book report, and if printing a family event that had a description and not a location, it would sometimes not print that family event (depending on which option was picked for printing family events before or after the spouse events.)
  • (changed) On most reports that can save as a text file, it will default to the same folder as the data files.
  • (new) On File, Locations, Change Globally, you can press Shift+F3 while on the bottom location field to change the field to normal case (first letter of each word upper case)

New in Brother's Keeper 6.4.22 (Apr 5, 2011)

  • (fixed) This version fixes a problem where sometimes on Edit if a person had multiple spouses, and you changed spouses and then added a new event, it would add a source to that new event that was not correct.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.4.21 (Mar 24, 2011)

  • (new) There is a new update for the translators. After they finish the translation, there will be new language updates available.
  • (fixed) Fixed a problem when using the new Custom Wording for book reports, where if there was no date, but there was a location, it was saying 'He was married on in Chicago'
  • (fixed) If printing all pictures at the bottom of Group sheets, it was printing .JPG files, but was not printing .JPEG files.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.4.20 (Mar 19, 2011)

  • (fixed) Fixed a problem that started in 6.4.18 on the Split database or Flag routine for Ancestors where it sometimes gave an Overflow error.
  • (fixed) Fixed a problem with the new Custom Wording option. It was not excluding marriage information for living people when you asked it to exclude data for living people.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.4.19 (Mar 19, 2011)

  • (new) On the Edit screen, added new Option to set if you want the cursor to be blinking when you tab to the location field. (Some users prefer the old way, before the changes in 6.4.18) Your screen size must be 1024 by 768 or larger to see the new option when you click the Options button.
  • (new) A few users of BK5 have mentioned that BK6 prints the Individual notes in the Register Book report after the descendant and not after the spouse (like BK5 used to do.) So if you are one of those BK5 users that has not changed to BK6 because of this, then there is a new option to print the notes after the spouse. Currently this is a 'hidden' option. On the Register Book setup screen, press Shift+F6 and it will say that it will print the notes after the spouse. This option is currently not saved, so you must do it each time.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.4.18 (Mar 19, 2011)

  • (fixed) Ahnentafel book report with children, was not printing ahnentafel number for children if the BK code number of children was over 90000. That has been fixed.
  • (new) On Edit screen, if you tab to the location column, you can paste without typing or clicking first. (Added option in 6.4.19 to have it stay the old way.)
  • (new) On Witness list (when click W from Edit) you can double click a name of a witness to jump to that person on Edit. That person becomes the new main person on Edit. You can not go back to the previous Witness list, but you can click the < button at the top left to go back to the previous main person.
  • (changed) On Edit screen - on the tabs for children and siblings, it will show dual birth or death dates, not just first date if there are two dates - like a date range or beginning and ending dates.
  • (fixed) If ToDo list had a repository and you changed the 'Type' column, it would loose the repository.
  • (new) on the Select person screen, option to show matching names in birth year order can be changed there in addition to main Options screen.
  • (new) on the Select Person screen, new option to show mother to right or below father. (It may be better below if you have long names in your database.)
  • (fixed) On the Edit screen, when adding spouse that was previously a 'Not Entered' spouse, it was not adding the Marriage event automatically.
  • (fixed) Gedcom export was not exporting foreign dates in English if using Ansel or UTF-8 character set.
  • (new) OK, this is a new feature, but it probably only works in English until I make some more changes in the next couple weeks. On the Book reports, on Fields to Include where you can pick how to print the 'He married/She married' paragraph, there is a new 5th option called Custom Wording. If you pick that option, you can then press F9 to pick your custom wording for all of the marriage/family events. There are 5 choices if there is a date for the event and 2 choices if there is no date for the event. Eventually this will also work with foreign language versions of BK. Note to translators: you can COPY the English-CustomWording.DTA file to a new file name with your language name instead of English and then the program will use that file. After you translate the default custom words, if you are the BK translator for that language, you can send the .DTA file to John to be included in the install program. I still need to make some more changes before it works correctly with languages other than English.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.4.17 (Jan 31, 2011)

  • (fixed) Notice to Dutch users of the DUTCH.BKW language file. This update fixes a problem with Van and Vander names that was caused by the previous two versions. Download this update and install it, then run File, Quality Check to reindex the names.
  • (changed) Changes were made to the 'All Relatives' report to try to fix the error 75 that some Windows 7 users were getting with more than 4 generations.
  • (fixed) Fixed a problem on Group Sheets where there was sometimes not a space after the name of the spouse of a child.
  • (new) Users of the Baltic character set will get the correct characters exported as UTF-8 characters on Gedcom Export.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.4.16 (Jan 24, 2011)

  • (changed) On the Word Search screen, you can put a space before or after a word you are searching for and it will then not match words that do not have the space. For example you can search for Rock followed by a space and it will not match Rockford.
  • (fixed) If you had the Select Person screen set to show matching names in birth year order, it was not showing the birth year before the Alternate Names (if you were also searching alternate names.)
  • (changed) When you go to File, Options, RTF and click Word, it finds it in the Office14 folder also now.
  • (fixed) Ahnentafel Book. The 'other family events' were not printing if you asked for the information 'at the end of the spouse information.'

New in Brother's Keeper 6.4.15 (Nov 28, 2010)

  • (new) A new translation program is available for the translators.
  • (fixed) Back starting with version 6.4.11 the program would ask if you wanted to create a new empty database when you picked File, Open database and picked an existing folder. However, if you said No, it would sometimes not respond well. So now, if you respond No it should go back and open the previous folder that was open.
  • (fixed) When making HTML files from the Ancestor chart, they looked OK with Internet Explorer, but sometimes did not look correct with Firefox or Chrome.
  • (new) Option on the Register Book and the Ahnentafel book to not have the word 'children' print in italics.
  • (fixed) On the Group sheet when including pictures, and doing a print or preview, if the location name or father or mother name was too long it would sometimes overlap the picture.
  • (changed) On the Edit screen, on the Siblings tab, it will put + after the number if that sibling is married.
  • (fixed) On the Register Book report, sometimes the child name would have 2 periods after Jr.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.4.14 (Nov 11, 2010)

  • (fixed) Fixed a bug on the Edit screen. The previous version (from yesterday) would cause an error in the program if you had a person with a birth date and you added a new death event with no date, and then changed the birth date.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.4.13 (Nov 11, 2010)

  • (changed) On the Edit screen, it will now show the age of the person as soon as you enter the dates. In previous versions, it only showed the age when you came back to that person.
  • (changed) On the Edit screen, it will show a * (star) on a tab if you enter information on that tab. In previous versions, it only showed the * when you came back to that person.
  • (changed) On the Edit screen, it will show the first 5 pictures if the screen size is 1024 by 768 and it will show the first 6 pictures if the screen is 1440 by 900
  • (new) On the Edit screen, you can click Options at the bottom of the Events grid and there are 2 new buttons to change the background color and the button color. Try to pick light colors for the best results. Note that the actual tabs will not change color and also that only the Edit screen uses these colors currently.
  • (fixed) Fixed a problem where it could overlap the picture with the personal message if you were printing all pictures at the bottom of a group sheet, and you were also printing a personal message at the bottom, but you were not printing any of the 3 choices for heading, person name, or file name below the pictures.
  • (changed) On Gedcom Export if you were only exporting select events and not all events, it will now save the list of events for the next time you export a gedcom file from that database.
  • (fixed) If you did a Register Book report with children names in small caps, and then without stopping the program you then did an Ahnentafel Book report that included children, it was printing children in small caps.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.4.12 (Oct 14, 2010)

  • (fixed) On the reports that can print 'Living' for the name of living people, it would sometimes still print 'Living' the second time you ran a report even though you asked for all details the second time.
  • (fixed) On book reports fixed this problem if 3 conditions were true. If 1. set to have divorce at the end, and 2. if excluding data, and 3. if descendant has details excluded, but spouse has died, it would sometimes say "they were divorced" at end of that spouse.
  • (fixed) On group sheets - if press F8 to 'print events even if not attached', it was blanking out the Custom Events instead of printing what was already in the Custom Events.
  • (fixed) On group sheets - if using new option and excluding data and blanking out data, it was sometimes not printing data for the main person that had died. Now it does print main person even if spouse is still living.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.4.11 (Sep 23, 2010)

  • (fixed) On gedcom export, if you picked the option to not export all events, it was still exporting 'Cause of death' event. That has been fixed.
  • (changed) If the user picks File, Open database, it will warn if no database exists and ask if you want to create a new empty database.
  • (fixed) On the Todo report it only showed the first date if there was a date range.
  • (changed) On the Group sheet do not say 'details excluded' for children if there is no birth date (if it guessed the child was living because parents were alive, but there is no birth date for the child.)
  • (new) On the Book report, Group, Descendant, and Ancestor chart, new option to have it leave off the words 'details excluded'. In other words, it will still exclude data for living people, but just leave it blank and not print the words 'details excluded'.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.4.10 (Aug 18, 2010)

  • (fixed) On the Family Group Sheet report, if a Family Note had a Source attached, it was not printing as a footnote.
  • (changed) On the Utility, Find Infinite Loop, it works faster now for large databases.
  • (fixed) On the Witness grid, fixed a problem if the witness had a source attached and you move the witness up or down on the list.
  • (new) New feature on the Book reports and Family Group Sheet report. If you press Shift+F9 it will turn on the option to print the blank picture file picturemissing.jpg for any person that does not have a picture. The idea is that you can send the report to your family and they will notice that you need pictures of certain people and they might send you those pictures.
  • (changed) Ahnentafel book report. If no individual picture, print family picture, but will not print the same family picture for both husband and wife. Will print individual picture if one has that and print family picture for the other spouse if no individual picture.
  • (new) On the Book reports, if you are making an RTF file with pictures, there is a new option on the RTF tab to put the picture heading with the pictures. This is not a perfect solution, but it should work for short headings. You may need to enlarge the Text box size in the RTF file after you resize all the pictures. (the Text box is around the picture box.)

New in Brother's Keeper 6.4.9 (Jun 22, 2010)

  • (changed) (for translators) F1 for Gedcom Import and Export to go to different screens now (4340 and 4350 instead of 135)
  • (new) Can use Shift+F8 on Edit to search location if having trouple with F8.
  • (changed) Changed Grand Parents to Grandparents in language file for Ahnentafel report.
  • (new) (for translators) Help screen number 4306 for select people when doing Gedcom export and selecting people.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.4.8 (May 27, 2010)

  • (changed) New translation program is available for the language translators.
  • (new) New report: Collapsed Ancestor Box Chart.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.4.7 (May 19, 2010)

  • (fixed) Fixed a bug in the 7 generation 4 page ancestor chart where it showed the parents for person number 27 as parents of number 25.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.4.6 (May 18, 2010)

  • (new) New option on the regular ancestor chart for 7 generations on 4 pages .
  • (fixed) Fixed problem where sometimes the RTF file for a Book report would show Roman Numerals for the Endnotes.
  • (changed) Gedcom export now uses the custom tag _RUFNAME for German Name, but it can still import the old tag _GERN
  • (changed) Indented Book report can print up to 40 generations (previous limit was 17) by using smaller indents automatically based on the number printed. Also it does not repeat any of the number patterns now.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.4.5 (Apr 27, 2010)

  • (fixed) Fixed a problem on Edit screen with spouse name overlapping at 1440 by 900 resolution.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.4.4 (Apr 26, 2010)

  • (new) New option on the Lists, Sources screen to print just the one selected source.
  • (new) If you have a screen size larger than 1440 by 900 and the Edit screen font is larger than you prefer, then at the bottom of the Events tab on Edit pick Options, and then select the option for 12 point font. Then close Edit and open Edit again.
  • (fixed) Fixed an error if trying to attach a .wav file to a source while using Vista or Windows 7.
  • (new) When the program starts, the main screen will show a picture of your choice. Make a picture called BKscreen.jpg and put it in the BK program folder or else in your BK data folder. If you have more than one BK data folder, it can show a different picture for each database. It is suggested that you use a picture of size 640 by 480 or at least one that is smaller than your screen size.
  • (changed) Gedcom export and import can convert Hebrew characters to UTF-8
  • (changed) The program gives new directions if stat error 35 occurs.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.4.3 (Apr 13, 2010)

  • (changed) On List, Sources, Print sources, new options to print 1. Repository name 2. Call number 3. names of file attachments (pictures or web links.)
  • (changed) Just for testing (or for fun) you can Right click a button at the bottom of the Children tab on the Edit screen to change the button colors for that tab. There are four color choices. There may be a new option in the future to change all the button colors on the Edit screen to colors of your choice.
  • Some people have reported that the larger screen font on Edit for screen size 1440 by 900 is too bold. If it looks too bold for you, you can change to a different font name. Go to the main BK screen and pick File, Options, Edit Screen. Change the bottom option and set it to 'Arial Narrow' and then pick File, Save and Close.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.4.2 (Apr 13, 2010)

  • (changed) Larger font on Edit for high resolution 1440 by 900 or larger.
  • (changed) On Edit screen for resolution 1024 by 768 or larger it will now show both 'add sibling' and 'add parents' buttons.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.4.1 (Apr 13, 2010)

  • Fixed a bug on the Register Book report which only happened if three things were set a certain way. It would print the wrong first name of the descendant before the death date if you were printing only Basic events, and you had the option turned on to print Alternate names, and you had the option turned off to print separate paragraphs for husband and wife. This bug started happening in January.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.4.0 (Apr 13, 2010)

  • (changed) On the Ahnentafel Book report, if you have the option turned on to also print children of the ancestors, there was a limit of 5 digits for the number before the child name, but that has been changed to 9 digits now.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.3.41 (Apr 13, 2010)

  • (fixed) Fixed a problem on Group sheets. The recent 6.3.40 version which fixed one problem for making HTML files for Range of Numbers, happened to cause a different problem for HTML files where some pages were missing when there were multiple marriages. This problem has been fixed now.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.3.40 (Apr 13, 2010)

  • (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'.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.3.39 (Feb 1, 2010)

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

New in Brother's Keeper 6.3.38 (Jan 25, 2010)

  • (changed) Improved gedcom import from gedcom files with referenced links to pictures, like those created by phpGedView.
  • (changed) Gedcom import can import pictures attached to sources.
  • (changed) Gedcom export has a new button to set options for maximum data output. (It changes the options back in case you have limited output for some fields.)
  • (new) On book reports, below "print alternate names" is a new option to "select which alternate names" and you can pick either a name type or a 'print where' value and only those will print.
  • (new) On book reports, on 'fields to include' tab there is a new option to have divorce, or other family events print at the end of spouse information.
  • (fixed) Backup routine was not backing up external notes that were attached to pictures (It was backing up the more common internal notes attached to pictures.)
  • (fixed) On the Collapsed ancestor chart if the BK code number was over 1 million it was dropping the last digit and showing the wrong person.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.3.37 (Dec 14, 2009)

  • (new) New option when making HTML group sheets to pick 3 sizes for the picture.
  • (changed) When you click Add Event on the Edit screen, the cursor will jump to the first blank column so that you can type the first letter of the event you want instead of having to use the mouse to click that column first.
  • (changed) On the Edit screen you can press CTRL+E to add a new event instead of having to use the mouse to click Add Event.
  • (changed) When adding a Witness that is a new person, you can pick Male or Female for that witness.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.3.36 (Nov 30, 2009)

  • (new) On the File, Split database routine, there is now a new option to include witnesses that are not part of the selected group.
  • (fixed) On the Register Book report, one combination of options regarding children names and small caps has been fixed.
  • (fixed) Made another change to fix a problem of some people not having the 'Married' event show up.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.3.35 (Nov 23, 2009)

  • (fixed) Gedcom import was sometimes not showing the option to import picture or media files (when there were picture or media file names in the gedcom file.)
  • (changed) Gedcom export and import works with UTF-8 for Central Europe character set 238 now.
  • (changed) Gedcom export made some changes for UTF-8 characters with ascii values from 128 to 159.
  • (fixed) Fixed some things on the Edit screen, Note tab for the text box if using the Central Europe characters set.
  • (fixed) For a new user, the program was not setting the default to add the 'Married' event when you clicked Add Spouse.
  • (fixed) Fixed a problem on the Edit screen if adding sources to two different family Media files.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.3.34 (Nov 10, 2009)

  • (changed) For Event Notes, it shows correct character set for Central Europe and Hebrew.
  • (changed) Gedcom Import some programs use tag ALIA for alias or also known as name so BK will look for ALIA tag and import it as an also known as name.
  • (fixed) Gedcom Export was not using UTF-8 character set for notes attached to pictures.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.3.33 (Nov 1, 2009)

  • (changed) On the All Relatives report, changed maximum name length from 40 to 60 characters.
  • (changed) On the All Relatives report, if you ask for relatives of spouses, it will also include the other spouses of the spouse of the starting person.
  • (fixed) On the All Relatives report, sometimes the non-English version would print 'options' or 'printer font' instead of the word 'of'
  • (new) When you pick Help, How to Register, there is a new button there to go to the online store on the Internet.
  • (fixed) On the Register Book report, if you asked for the names of living people to be changed to 'living' and if you also asked for the lineage back to the starting person after each name, it would sometimes show the name of an ancestor that was living in the lineage.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.3.32 (Oct 27, 2009)

  • (changed) New lines available for translators for the 'All Relatives' report. Translators can download the new translation program now.
  • (changed) On the Edit screen, the Notes textbox was not showing Hebrew characters correctly.
  • (fixed) Some users of Windows 95, 98 or ME were having an error when going to Edit screen with versions from the past two weeks. This has been fixed.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.3.31 (Oct 27, 2009)

  • (fixed) On the 'All Relatives' report, if including the relatives of the spouses, the 6.3.30 version would sometimes incorrectly say 'of the partner of' instead of 'of the wife of' or 'of the husband of' for a married couple.
  • (changed) On the 'All Relatives' report, it uses different temporary files now which should stop the 'error 75' that some people got when doing more than 10 generations.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.3.30 (Oct 27, 2009)

  • (changed) On the 'All Relatives' report if a person had both a unmarried partner and then a spouse, it will not say 'second' wife or husband, it will jut say wife or husband.
  • (changed) The Edit screen can also show Hebrew in the Spouse combo box.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.3.29 (Oct 27, 2009)

  • (changed) On the 'All Relatives' report if a couple is not married, it will say 'partner'.
  • (changed) On the 'All Relatives' report the English version will still say 'uncle by marriage' or 'aunt by marriage' but other languages will use the phrase 'husband of the aunt' or 'wife of the uncle'.
  • (fixed) Fixed a problem on the 'All Relatives' report where sometimes the option for no spouses would cause error 9.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.3.28 (Oct 27, 2009)

  • (changed) On the 'All Relatives' report there is a new tab where you can pick which people to include. Previously it did all relatives and all spouses and all of the relatives of the spouses as the default. Now you can limit the spouses or the relatives of the spouses.
  • (changed) On the 'All Relatives' report there is a new option on 'Fields to Include' to use the alternate name for a person.
  • (fixed) Fixed a problem on the 'All Relatives' report where sometimes if you did the report twice in a row with the same starting person, it did not have all the people the second time.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.3.27 (Oct 27, 2009)

  • (fixed) Fixed a problem on the 'All Relatives' report where the number of generations was sometimes wrong when clicking Print. Also made a change to improve who prints when you ask to not print people who have died.
  • (changed) The Edit screen can also show Russian in the Spouse combo box.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.3.26 (Oct 16, 2009)

  • (fixed) Fixed a problem on the new 'All Relatives' report that called a half brother or half sister a cousin.
  • (changed) I am making some changes on the Edit screen that might affect the Spouse field. The previous field that could show multiple spouses (a combo box) was not able to show characters for some languages such as Czech or Russian. I have replaced that field with a new field and currently it should show names correctly from the Czech language. If you notice any problems with the spouse field, please let me know.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.3.25 (Oct 14, 2009)

  • (fixed) Fixed an Overflow error on the new 'All Relatives' report if your database is larger than 25,000 people.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.3.24 (Oct 14, 2009)

  • (new) New report under Other called 'All Relatives'. This report will compute all relatives of a person, including relatives of the spouse, and relatives of those relatives.
  • (fixed) On the Gedcom Export, the special fields of Last Name and Sort Name were sometimes not converted to the correct character set.
  • (changed) On the Group Sheet, if the alternate name does not fit on the first line, it will be moved to the second line.
  • Note for the foreign language translators: there are two new Help screens in the Help file. All Relatives is 4610. Infinite Loop is 4611.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.3.23 (Sep 28, 2009)

  • (changed) The biggest change in 6.3.23 is the new option under File, Options, to set the margins to centimeters. Since this affects almost all of the reports, and also affects when printing pictures, please report if you have any problems with this new option.
  • (new) There is a new utility under File, Utilities, to look for an infinate loop. If any of the reports say you might have an infinate loop, then run this utility to see which person is causing the problem.
  • (changed) New translation program.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.3.22 (Sep 21, 2009)

  • (fixed) The version from yesterday had a problem where the program would stop if you were sending a Group sheet to a file.
  • (changed) When making a book report, it used to put a comma before the ( ) sections, but now it does not.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.3.21 (Sep 21, 2009)

  • (changed) Changes for translators. New lines for Restore and Gedcom
  • (changed) If making an RTF file with pictures, it includes directions for Word 2007
  • (new) New option when creating a Gedcom file to change character set to UTF-8

New in Brother's Keeper 6.3.20 (Sep 7, 2009)

  • (changed) Changes for translators. 14 new lines.
  • (fixed) On the Custom Lists screen, if you picked the fields for Flags, those numbers were not saved if you picked File, Save Report Layout.
  • (There was a problem with the regular Descendant report if you happened to download the program on Sunday between 4pm and 6pm Eastern time. If so, just download and install it again now.)

New in Brother's Keeper 6.3.19 (Sep 2, 2009)

  • (changed) Changes for translators. It may take the translators several days to update the language files.
  • (changed) Users can enter in Options the 3 symbols for born, died, married (since some countries do not use the same symbols).

New in Brother's Keeper 6.3.18 (Aug 24, 2009)

  • (changed) Gedcom export, always have exactly one space before /lastname/ to be compatible with changes in PhpGedView.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.3.17 (Jul 31, 2009)

  • (new) Option for color on Tree chart and Box chart.
  • (new) Gedcom export puts the tag _PRIM Y after the primary picture.
  • (new) Several changes for flags (see below). If you do not know what flags are used for, go to File, Utilities, Flag a group of people, then press F1 for help.
  • (new) Word search new tab for searching for flags.
  • (new) Custom Lists new fields for flags 351 - 355.
  • (new) On the Edit screen, right click a flag to delete it from that person.
  • (new) On the Edit screen, pick Add, Flag to add any of the 5 flags to a person

New in Brother's Keeper 6.3.16 (Jul 29, 2009)

  • (changed) After a gedcom import, it will give an option to view the ged.lst file.
  • (fixed) When printing footnotes, if a source ends with ) or quote, it will not add an ending period.
  • (new) On the Unlinked Branches report, you can preview the branches, and then if you want to see exactly who is in one of the groups, you can close the preview and then press the F5 key and pick a group number, then do the preview again and it will list who is in that group.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.3.15 (Jul 15, 2009)

  • (new) The Gedcom Import and Export also includes Notes that are attached to Locations.
  • (fixed) When making HTML file for group sheets for a Range of numbers, if including people with no spouse, and if including pictures, it would sometimes add a random spouse.
  • (fixed) Fixed bug from previous update on 06-23-09. In the 6.3.14 version on the Edit screen if a person had only one parent and you clicked 'Add Sibling' it would wrongly say 'name required to save'.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.3.14 (Jul 8, 2009)

  • (new) New at main screen under File, Utilities, Fix Media Path. Similar to Fix Picture Path in 6.3.11 below.
  • (new) Box chart and Tree chart, it will use the Short Name (if that person has a Short Name added on the Names tab on Edit) when the regular name does not fit.
  • (new) Ancestor chart (print and display, not file) has new option to add one new event and pick a print color for that event.
  • (fixed) Fixed a problem on the Tree chart where sometimes it would overlap if the last child in a family had more spouses than children.
  • (fixed) Sometimes a Box chart would only show 7 boxes on the screen even if the screen was wide enough to show more.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.3.13 (May 14, 2009)

  • (new) When you attach a previous source to an event, there is also an option to attach the same pictures that were attached to the previous source.
  • (new) If you use the Option to have the Edit screen go to a certain BK number, then if you have multiple BK databases, it can remember a different number for each database.
  • (new) Under File, Options, Edit screen, there are now four options about making the tabs bold.
  • (new) After you make an Ancestor chart RTF file, there is an option to open the file with your word processor.
  • (changed) If you click the N column to go to an Event Note the text box is larger if your screen is larger than 640 by 480.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.3.12 (Apr 24, 2009)

  • (new) On Edit screen, if an event has exactly one source attached, you can hold down Shift and click the S with the mouse to jump to that source and bypass the screen showing all sources for that event.
  • (new) New option on Group sheets to only print if date of last change is after a certain date. Note that not every type of change will set the 'date of last change' on Edit, but if you add or change an event date or location it will reset the date of last change.
  • (changed) Instead of setting option to show symbols in place of b. and d. on all reports, now you can pick that option separately for each report that can print b. and d.
  • (new) Option to print the Divorced event on Descendant report and Ancestor Chart. It will later be added to Ancestor chart html output.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.3.9 (Feb 6, 2009)

  • (changed) On the procedure File, Delete unused sources, it will show each unused source and ask if you want to delete it (instead of deleting all unused sources sight unseen)
  • (changed) On the Backup and Restore screens, if you click "Pick a different drive" it shows all available drives and folders.
  • (changed) On the Restore screen, when it is restoring the Text, Picture, and Media files, it can create multiple levels of folders if the folders do not already exist.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.3.8 (Jan 20, 2009)

  • (changed) When creating a gedcom file, it will export names of .jpeg pictures in addition to .jpg
  • (changed) When adding pictures, it will also show .jpeg files in the folder in addition to .jpg
  • (fixed) Fixed problem on Edit where if you changed an individual event to a family event, it would sometimes not keep the event note or source.
  • (new) On the book reports (Register, Indented, Ahnentafel) instead of just whole words for Born and Died or abbreviation, there is now an option for symbols. (This option will override the option in File, Options, RTF/Other about symbols.)
  • (changed) On the Word Search, on the Event Search tab, it can search for a range between two dates just like on the person tab or the marriage tab. Enter year==year
  • (changed) If the BKAUDIT.TXT file gets over 2 megs in size, the program will rename it and create a new one and continue.
  • (fixed) The Unlinked Branches would sometimes miss people if a person at one time had parents, but later they were deleted.
  • (changed) Quality Check can fix people that at one time had parents, but later the parents were deleted.
  • (changed) On the Picture Summary, if you ask for Headings, it will display the headings on the screen and not just print them on paper.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.3.7 (Jan 6, 2009)

  • (fixed) Fixed a bug in the Utility, Find BK6 Database routine that prevented folder from opening correctly.
  • (changed) On Edit, the menu item to Show Source now works on all the tabs which have sources, not just Events or Children tabs.
  • (changed) When doing a backup with pictures, if a picture is missing for a source, it has more options.

New in Brother's Keeper 6.3.4 (Dec 9, 2008)

  • (changed) If you pick Lists, and pick one of the Display options, then if you decide to print that list, there is an option to give a printed heading for the report.
  • (changed) Individual Timeline, option to show birth and marriage of grandparents.
  • (cahnged) When you are on Edit and show a Source or Event Note, it shows the BK code number of the person after the name.
  • (fixed) Fixed problem on the Tree chart, if you entered 1 for number of generations, the program stopped.