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Family Tree Analyzer Changelog

What's new in Family Tree Analyzer 10.0.0.0 Beta 8

Dec 18, 2023
  • Bugfixes:
  • Lots of minor control tweaks to fix positioning with different font sizes
  • Facts reports weren't working after update to .Net 8
  • Inconsistent location report crash fixed

New in Family Tree Analyzer 10.0.0.0 Beta 7 (Dec 17, 2023)

  • Updates:
  • Moved code to .Net 8 - this is the LTS or Long Term Support version it has a number of improvements particularly in support for high DPI monitors which is a big part of the issues with screen sizes

New in Family Tree Analyzer 10.0.0.0 Beta 6 (Dec 16, 2023)

  • Updates:
  • Added suffix recognition from name fact
  • Updated Alias handling to recognise more GEDCOM flavours
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed Title recognition from name fact
  • Various null reference fixes using new c# features
  • Changed all messageboxes to load on top of parent form which solves issue of appearing on a different monitor
  • Don't export to Excel if nothing to export.
  • Apply to selector in Colour BMD hidden if filter has all individuals selected

New in Family Tree Analyzer 10.0.0.0 Beta 5 (Dec 12, 2023)

  • Updates
  • Analytics recognises Windows 11 23H2
  • Bugfixes
  • Fixed Sort & Filter on data grids

New in Family Tree Analyzer 10.0.0.0 Beta 4 (Dec 10, 2023)

  • Updates:
  • Now runs on .Net Core 7.0
  • Added Born During Census flag on colour census report
  • Bugfixes:
  • Added in forcing size changes to attempt to finally fix the scroll bar issues on certain resolutions and scalings
  • Fix clicking on sort columns sorting ascending then descending
  • Fix default folder for opening files

New in Family Tree Analyzer 10.0.0.0 Beta 3 (Apr 24, 2023)

  • Updates:
  • Changed Lost Cousins web interface to use modern HttpClient
  • Cope with dates with double tags eg: TO BEF, TO AFT and similar
  • Added extra census reference discovery
  • Cope with changed Ancestry GEDCOM format that moved fact description from fact to note
  • Now avoids showing date errors if Census Fact has text of State Census
  • Showing Individual or Family Facts all now use same routine
  • Bugfixes:
  • Set RowTemplates to use font height scaling
  • Fix font height in census view
  • Fix data error check boxes not showing
  • Double clicking displayed error once again opens facts for individual
  • Fixed missing installer icons
  • Fixed data errors checkboxes not updating list
  • Added a bunch of nullability check fixes
  • Changed over to using newer HttpClient software to load web data

New in Family Tree Analyzer 10.0.0.0 Beta 2 (Apr 23, 2023)

  • Updates:
  • Changed Lost Cousins web interface to use modern HttpClient
  • Cope with dates with double tags eg: TO BEF, TO AFT and similar
  • Added extra census reference discovery
  • Cope with changed Ancestry GEDCOM format that moved fact description from fact to note
  • Now avoids showing date errors if Census Fact has text of State Census
  • Bugfixes:
  • Set RowTemplates to use font height scaling
  • Fix font height in census view
  • Fix data error check boxes not showing
  • Double clicking displayed error once again opens facts for individual
  • Fixed missing installer icons

New in Family Tree Analyzer 10.0.0.0 Beta 1 (Oct 17, 2022)

  • Migrated project to .Net Core 6.0 from old .Net Framework:
  • This allows greater support of modern features
  • It gives greater long term support moving off an old framework designed for Windows XP
  • It should run faster and more efficiently than the old framework
  • It will now require Windows 10 or above (Windows 7 and below haven't been supported by Microsoft for nearly 3 years)
  • Added extra US census reference checks
  • Relationship calcs respect same sex marriages now
  • Add custom fact event analysis
  • Added option to show if person died during period census was taken
  • Detect 21h2 and 22h2 versions of Windows 10
  • Detect 22h2 versions of Windows 11
  • Bugfixes:
  • Main form GEDCOM loading now auto scrolls the output window
  • Fix check for Web Version check to show if there is a new version
  • Fix sibling too soon check
  • Checking birth too soon only check if child birthdate is known
  • Temporarily Unavailable:
  • Child Birth Profile chart needs re-written to work with .Net Core 6 so for this beta is unavailable

New in Family Tree Analyzer 8.5.2.0 / 8.5.2.0 MS Store (Feb 13, 2022)

  • Updates:
  • Added Custom Fact to Excel export option
  • Recognises date of WWI or WWII
  • Bugfixes:
  • Outside country on census for UK census was erroneously showing US census if residence fact in UK in year before.
  • Extra tweaks for special date handling, should recognise more examples
  • Surnames tab double clck was not respecting selected filters
  • Relationship calcs respect same sex marriages now
  • Dates in brackets are now not reported as errors

New in Family Tree Analyzer 8.5.1.0 (Jan 5, 2022)

  • Updates:
  • Changed default grid used in reports to one that supports filtering
  • Added extra DPI support for different monitor resolutions should help with auto scaling
  • Count updates to show number of records filtered
  • Added option to show if person died during period census was taken
  • Colour Census and Colour BMD now highlight whole row
  • Rework tab selector to force tabs onto main form - hopefully will fix scrollbar issues
  • Bugfixes:
  • Forced data grids to fill to their parent to hopefully fix scroll bar issue
  • Data errors tab checkboxes now scale to high dpi scaling
  • Status bar height now scales to font setting
  • Fact column heights auto scale
  • Font Height saved to avoid getHeight crash bug
  • Force font height defaults on load

New in Family Tree Analyzer 8.5.0.0 / 8.5.0.0 MS Store (Jan 4, 2022)

  • Updates:
  • Changed default grid used in reports to one that supports filtering
  • Added extra DPI support for different monitor resolutions should help with auto scaling
  • Count updates to show number of records filtered
  • Added option to show if person died during period census was taken
  • Colour Census and Colour BMD now highlight whole row
  • Bugfixes:
  • Forced data grids to fill to their parent to hopefully fix scroll bar issue
  • Data errors tab checkboxes now scale to high dpi scaling
  • Status bar height now scales to font setting
  • Fact column heights auto scale
  • Font Height saved to avoid getHeight crash bug
  • Force font height defaults on load

New in Family Tree Analyzer 8.5.0.0 Beta 4 (Jan 3, 2022)

  • Updates:
  • Changed default grid used in reports to one that supports filtering
  • Added extra DPI support for different monitor resolutions should help with auto scaling
  • Count updates to show number of records filtered
  • Bugfixes:
  • Forced data grids to fill to their parent to hopefully fix scroll bar issue
  • Data errors tab checkboxes now scale to high dpi scaling
  • Status bar height now scales to font setting
  • Fact column heights auto scale
  • Font Height saved to avoid getHeight crash bug
  • Force font height defaults on load

New in Family Tree Analyzer 8.5.0.0 Beta 3 (Jan 2, 2022)

  • Updates:
  • Changed default grid used in reports to one that supports filtering
  • Added extra DPI support for different monitor resolutions should help with auto scaling
  • Bugfixes:
  • Forced data grids to fill to their parent to hopefully fix scroll bar issue
  • Data errors tab checkboxes now scale to high dpi scaling
  • Status bar height now scales to font setting
  • Fact column heights auto scale
  • Font Height saved to avoid getHeight crash bug
  • Force font height defaults on load

New in Family Tree Analyzer 8.4.1.0 (Dec 29, 2021)

  • Updates:
  • Allow auto searching on BMDs even if exact date
  • Bugfixes:
  • Altered grid resize to force to account for size of scrollbars on different resolutions
  • Fixed FamilySearch searches given website changes

New in Family Tree Analyzer 8.4.0.0 (Dec 26, 2021)

  • Updates:
  • Temp XML file is now unloaded after initial processing freeing up memory
  • Initial Load now says how much memory was used during loading and procesing
  • Updated packages to latest versions including BruTile & NewtonsoftJSON
  • Changed all main form grids to use virtual grids this should make loading faster
  • Duplicate checking radically overhauled thanks to assistance from Tamura Jones and Enno Borgsteede
  • Added support for England and Wales 2021 census
  • Removed 1931 England and Wales as census as it was destroyed
  • Added feature to facts tab to filter on alternate/preferred facts
  • Custom Facts tab now shows families who have a custom fact
  • Added export of geocoded locations to Google MyMaps KML format
  • Bugfixes:
  • Remapped sizes of all controls on main form to hopefully eliminate the scroll bar bug
  • Duplicates exclude those with unknown names
  • Icon sizes now scale if using a high resolution monitor
  • Forced update of SQLite.Interop.dll files
  • Loose deaths for fathers now limit to 1st of month rather than 1st January of year of oldest child
  • Cope with missing characterset in GEDCOM header
  • 1940 US census is allowed to be a reference for a 1935 residence
  • Dont overwrite a good census reference if more than one per fact
  • Added routine to force trim grids to maximum window size

New in Family Tree Analyzer 8.4.0.0 Beta 8 (Dec 3, 2021)

  • Updates:
  • Temp XML file is now unloaded after initial processing freeing up memory
  • Initial Load now says how much memory was used during loading and procesing
  • Updated packages to latest versions including BruTile & NewtonsoftJSON
  • Changed all main form grids to use virtual grids this should make loading faster
  • Duplicate checking radically overhauled thanks to assistance from Tamura Jones and Enno Borgsteede
  • Added support for England and Wales 2021 census
  • Removed 1931 England and Wales as census as it was destroyed
  • Added feature to facts tab to filter on alternate/preferred facts
  • Custom Facts tab now shows families who have a custom fact
  • Bugfixes:
  • Remapped sizes of all controls on main form to hopefully eliminate the scroll bar bug
  • Duplicates exclude those with unknown names
  • Icon sizes now scale if using a high resolution monitor
  • Forced update of SQLite.Interop.dll files
  • Loose deaths for fathers now limit to 1st of month rather than 1st January of year of oldest child
  • Cope with missing characterset in GEDCOM header
  • 1940 US census is allowed to be a reference for a 1935 residence
  • Dont overwrite a good census reference if more than one per fact
  • Added routine to force trim grids to maximum window size

New in Family Tree Analyzer 8.4.0.0 Beta 7 (Nov 15, 2021)

  • Updates:
  • Temp XML file is now unloaded after initial processing freeing up memory
  • Initial Load now says how much memory was used during loading and procesing
  • Updated packages to latest versions including BruTile & NewtonsoftJSON
  • Changed all main form grids to use virtual grids this should make loading faster
  • Duplicate checking radically overhauled thanks to assistance from Tamura Jones and Enno Borgsteede
  • Added support for England and Wales 2021 census
  • Removed 1931 England and Wales as census as it was destroyed
  • Added feature to facts tab to filter on alternate/preferred facts
  • Custom Facts tab now shows families who have a custom fact
  • Bugfixes:
  • Remapped sizes of all controls on main form to hopefully eliminate the scroll bar bug
  • Duplicates exclude those with unknown names
  • Icon sizes now scale if using a high resolution monitor
  • Forced update of SQLite.Interop.dll files
  • Loose deaths for fathers now limit to 1st of month rather than 1st January of year of oldest child
  • Cope with missing characterset in GEDCOM header
  • 1940 US census is allowed to be a reference for a 1935 residence
  • Dont overwrite a good census reference if more than one per fact

New in Family Tree Analyzer 8.4.0.0 Beta 6 (Nov 14, 2021)

  • Updates:
  • Temp XML file is now unloaded after initial processing freeing up memory
  • Initial Load now says how much memory was used during loading and procesing
  • Updated packages to latest versions including BruTile & NewtonsoftJSON
  • Changed all main form grids to use virtual grids this should make loading faster
  • Duplicate checking radically overhauled thanks to assistance from Tamura Jones and Enno Borgsteede
  • Added support for England and Wales 2021 census
  • Removed 1931 England and Wales as census as it was destroyed
  • Added feature to facts tab to filter on alternate/preferred facts
  • Bugfixes:
  • Remapped sizes of all controls on main form to hopefully eliminate the scroll bar bug
  • Duplicates exclude those with unknown names
  • Icon sizes now scale if using a high resolution monitor
  • Forced update of SQLite.Interop.dll files
  • Loose deaths for fathers now limit to 1st of month rather than 1st January of year of oldest child
  • Cope with missing characterset in GEDCOM header
  • US census is allowed to be a reference for a 1935 residence
  • Dont overwrite a good census reference if more than one per fact

New in Family Tree Analyzer 8.4.0.0 Beta 3 (Nov 13, 2021)

  • Updates:
  • Temp XML file is now unloaded after initial processing freeing up memory
  • Initial Load now says how much memory was used during loading and procesing
  • Updated packages to latest versions including BruTile & NewtonsoftJSON
  • Changed all main form grids to use virtual grids this should make loading faster
  • Duplicate checking radically overhauled thanks to assistance from Tamura Jones and Enno Borgsteede
  • Added support for England and Wales 2021 census
  • Removed 1931 England and Wales as census as it was destroyed
  • Bugfixes:
  • Remapped sizes of all controls on main form to hopefully eliminate the scroll bar bug
  • Duplicates exclude those with unknown names
  • Icon sizes now scale if using a high resolution monitor
  • Google lookups forced to use HTMLencoded strings

New in Family Tree Analyzer 8.4.0.0 Beta 2 (Nov 7, 2021)

  • Remapped sizes of all controls on main form to hopefully eliminate the scroll bar bug
  • Duplicates exclude those with unknown names

New in Family Tree Analyzer 8.4.0.0 Beta 1 (Nov 6, 2021)

  • Beta test of virtual grids - this should load data into the grids on the main window much faster
  • Also testing the speed increases implemented for Duplicate checking

New in Family Tree Analyzer 8.3.1.0 (Jun 10, 2021)

  • Updates:
  • Added display of 1950 US census support in preparation for release on 1st April 2022
  • Updated to NetTopologySuite 2.2.0
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed duplicate display of facts in places and lifelines
  • Fixed missing FULLNAME field in beta testers database
  • Fixed issue where UK in location became England, England
  • Added message where no one in file is at location
  • Fixed issue of colour census reports not showing correctly when alternate facts off
  • Fixed issue of created facts creating for dates when individual wasn't alive
  • Hopefully fixed the installer uninstall first issue

New in Family Tree Analyzer 5.3.1.5 (Mar 23, 2017)

  • New Features:
  • Added support for 1939 UK National Registration in census reports including automated searching of Find My Past
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed issue that showed valid1939 census entries as data errors
  • Rebuilt click once as v5.3.1.2 to fix sync issue
  • Tweak to US Census references
  • Add fix for CENSUS 1939 or NATIONAL REGISTER 1939 invalid fact tags.
  • Fixed issue in Colour BMD reports where Baptism/Christening and Burial/Cremation records were defaulting to blank.
  • XML parser was skipping lines after it encountered a CONT/CONC line if the gedcom was indented.
  • Lost Cousins facts were erroneously getting treated as comment facts thus ignoring places
  • Baseline changes:
  • Software now updated to .Net 4.5 to take advantage of newer features of windows. This means it will no longer run on Windows XP. If you are still stuck on that broken old OS then you will need to use v5.1.0.5 as the last ever version to run on XP.

New in Family Tree Analyzer 5.3.1.2 (Mar 22, 2017)

  • New Features:
  • Added support for 1939 UK National Registration in census reports including automated searching of Find My Past
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed issue that showed valid1939 census entries as data errors
  • Rebuilt click once as v5.3.1.2 to fix sync issue
  • Baseline changes:
  • Software now updated to .Net 4.5 to take advantage of newer features of windows. This means it will no longer run on Windows XP. If you are still stuck on that broken old OS then you will need to use v5.1.0.5 as the last ever version to run on XP.

New in Family Tree Analyzer 5.1.0.5 (Aug 11, 2015)

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  • New Features:
  • Added Report to show a count of relatives of each type
  • Added BMD searching for Ancestry, FindMyPast and FamilySearch from BMD Colour Report - Double click a birth, marriage or death on the colour BMD form to auto search the web for that entry. Similar to how the census searching works.
  • Updates:
  • Added Option to display females with unknown surname in brackets as unknown
  • Set search dropdown on BMDs to FreeBMD rather than FreeCen
  • Birth and death searches now use loose birth/death to narrow range if unknown date
  • Ancestry searches now filter on marriage date and death date
  • Census Ref and date pattern matching is now faster
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Missing fields no longer passed to FindMyPast census searches causing searches to fail
  • Surnames box wasn't filling grid
  • Valid Census records on Lost Cousins and colour census reports now use year comparisons rather than exact date.
  • Census ref search wasn't picking up schedule for 1911
  • Unknown page census refs were getting lost by unknown census refs
  • Residence and census facts that had invalid years note wern't getting checked for census references in the notes
  • Use married surnames for death searches
  • Family Search only include birth location for birth searches
  • Always make birth year dates use range of at least 1 year
  • Geocoding of US locations have an extra level
  • Fix for 40 year death ranges on FMP if unknown dates
  • Now treats Unknown locations as geocoded
  • When loading form locations added a check to make sure it is on one of the user's screens
  • UK addresses geocode one level below rest of world due to Scotland, England, Wales etc being the country not UK.
  • Status text on geocoding form wasn't correctly refreshing

New in Family Tree Analyzer 5.1.0.4 (Aug 5, 2015)

  • New Features:
  • Added Report to show a count of relatives of each type
  • Added BMD searching for Ancestry, FindMyPast and FamilySearch from BMD Colour Report - Double click a birth, marriage or death on the colour BMD form to auto search the web for that entry. Similar to how the census searching works.
  • Updates:
  • Added Option to display females with unknown surname in brackets as unknown
  • Set search dropdown on BMDs to FreeBMD rather than FreeCen
  • Birth and death searches now use loose birth/death to narrow range if unknown date
  • Ancestry searches now filter on marriage date and death date
  • Census Ref and date pattern matching is now faster
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Missing fields no longer passed to FindMyPast census searches causing searches to fail
  • Surnames box wasn't filling grid
  • Valid Census records on Lost Cousins and colour census reports now use year comparisons rather than exact date.
  • Census ref search wasn't picking up schedule for 1911
  • Unknown page census refs were getting lost by unknown census refs
  • Residence and census facts that had invalid years note wern't getting checked for census references in the notes
  • Use married surnames for death searches
  • Family Search only include birth location for birth searches
  • Always make birth year dates use range of at least 1 year
  • Geocoding of US locations have an extra level
  • Fix for 40 year death ranges on FMP if unknown dates

New in Family Tree Analyzer 5.1.0.1 (Jul 27, 2015)

  • New Features:
  • Added Report to show a count of relatives of each type
  • Added BMD searching for Ancestry, FindMyPast and FamilySearch from BMD Colour Report - Double click a birth, marriage or death on the colour BMD form to auto search the web for that entry. Similar to how the census searching works.
  • Updates:
  • Added Option to display females with unknown surname in brackets as unknown
  • Set search dropdown on BMDs to FreeBMD rather than FreeCen
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Missing fields no longer passed to FindMyPast census searches causing searches to fail
  • Surnames box wasn't filling grid
  • Valid Census records on Lost Cousins and colour census reports now use year comparisons rather than exact date.
  • Census ref search wasn't picking up schedule for 1911
  • Unknown page census refs were getting lost by unknown census refs
  • Residence and census facts that had invalid years note wern't getting checked for census references in the notes
  • Use married surnames for death searches
  • Family Search only include birth location for birth searches
  • Always make birth year dates use range of at least 1 year

New in Family Tree Analyzer 5.1.0.0 Beta 2 (Jul 15, 2015)

  • New Features:
  • Added Report to show a count of relatives of each type
  • Added BMD searching for Ancestry, FindMyPast and FamilySearch from BMD Colour Report - Double click a birth, marriage or death on the colour BMD form to auto search the web for that entry. Similar to how the census searching works.
  • Updates:
  • Added Option to display females with unknown surname in brackets as unknown
  • Set search dropdown on BMDs to FreeBMD rather than FreeCen
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Missing fields no longer passed to FindMyPast census searches causing searches to fail
  • Surnames box wasn't filling grid
  • Valid Census records on Lost Cousins and colour census reports now use year comparisons rather than exact date.
  • Census ref search wasn't picking up schedule for 1911
  • Unknown page census refs were getting lost by unknown census refs

New in Family Tree Analyzer 5.0.4.2 (May 12, 2015)

  • Updates:
  • Added Relation filter for Surname report
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Loading with old database no longer fails if latm/longm columns already exist.

New in Family Tree Analyzer 5.0.4.1 (May 11, 2015)

  • Updates:
  • Now recognizes lat/long places from Legacy files
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Someone who is married twice no longer appears twice on the census reports if on their own in a previous family
  • Arrival and departure facts are location facts not comment facts
  • Change IsAlive to StartsBefore instead of IsBefore
  • Status bar text wasn't clearing on a reload

New in Family Tree Analyzer 5.0.4.0 (May 6, 2015)

  • Updates:
  • If a census reference cut n paste from Lost Cousins is detected then a created Lost Cousins fact is added if one didn't exist.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • ADDR & PLAC records for fact are no longer concatenated
  • Census ref wasn't picking up from fact notes if it found text it didn't recognise in source

New in Family Tree Analyzer 5.0.3.2 (May 5, 2015)

  • Updates:
  • Add support for Canadian Ancestry census references
  • Add support for 1881 census - District 146/B, Page 59, Family 273 - living at Rainham, Haldimand, Ontario, Canada. style Canadian census ref.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fix typo in census recognition for Lost Cousins census references

New in Family Tree Analyzer 5.0.3.0 (May 4, 2015)

  • Updates:
  • Step value for "on this day" remembered between sessions
  • Add function to export missing census references
  • Various updates to US census reference checks
  • Added Scottish Parish reference -> name lookup
  • Census references for existing facts now tries to update Fact location details if fact had no location
  • Added code to load TNG format location files
  • Add support for 1881 Canadian LC Census pattern
  • Add check to see if census fact year matches census reference year fact shows as error if there is a mismatch
  • Added census ref year to facts display
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Lost Cousins Colour status now also checks if likely to be out of country
  • Fix for recognising Russia from Chapman Code

New in Family Tree Analyzer 5.0.2.4 (Apr 29, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Notes continuation line was being read then ignored
  • Set Census ref comment if length > 0
  • When a census fact exists and a note exists with a census ref copy the census ref across if the census fact doesnt have one
  • Only copy census references if reference is good or partial

New in Family Tree Analyzer 5.0.2.2 (Apr 28, 2015)

  • Updates:
  • Add support for Scottish Census patterns with years
  • Add recognition of Lost Cousins 1940 US Census reference format
  • Added recognition of 1940 US census references as cut n paste from FamilySearch, FindMyPast & Ancestry
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fix text lookup was aggressively looking for text even on names etc

New in Family Tree Analyzer 5.0.2.1 (Apr 27, 2015)

  • Updates:
  • Parent and Children facts now include birth location if known
  • Revised handling of notes to better find census references
  • Recognises cut n paste formatted references from FindMyPast
  • Calculated Birth facts now show Age string used
  • "1911 Census" and "Census 1911" patterns now recognised
  • Added support for Legacy 8 default fact types recognition
  • Dates with ~ now supported
  • Added support for extra Scottish Valuation Rolls
  • Add created census facts if partial recognition
  • Report results window now shows Census Reference details found
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Census Facts now check for notes on the fact as well as in general notes to find a census reference
  • Fixed issue with double counting LC facts with bad/missing census facts
  • "1841 Census:" reference types with Book: were getting skipped by mistake
  • Lots of tweaks to handling of notes to find more census references
  • Gedcom parser now allows CONT & CONC lines to start with a @
  • fix for WWI & WWII abbreviations being converted.

New in Family Tree Analyzer 5.0.1.5 (Apr 23, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Facts before birth shouldn't show errors for calculated birth facts
  • Only show missing children status where both parents are alive and at least parenting age
  • Fix Age calc being 1 day out
  • Fix loose births getting confused when partial dates used with no year

New in Family Tree Analyzer 5.0.1.4 (Apr 22, 2015)

  • Updates:
  • Added File Handling option menu to allow loading files with special character handling
  • Added support for dates of format
  • 1914 to 1918
  • 1914 until 1918
  • (also any day month variants)
  • Added support for C1xxx and C2xxx dates (ie: Circa dates)
  • Bug fixes:
  • Children status of ignore wasn't ignoring all records for missing Chilren status report.
  • Warnings of file errors don't warn as frequently when loading very large files
  • Fact Dates cope better with 3 digit years
  • Loading families no longer fails if missing REF attribute
  • Tidied up some reload required options not forcing a reload
  • Added missing options current settings text to report window

New in Family Tree Analyzer 5.0.1.3 (Apr 21, 2015)

  • Updates:
  • Add extra Scottish Valuation Rolls dates
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Check Lost Cousins Fact Location before checking related census fact location
  • Lost Cousins facts with missing census facts now shown separately from Census facts with missing Lost Cousins facts
  • Fix issues with Date Calculations causing crash

New in Family Tree Analyzer 5.0.1.2 (Apr 20, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Census reference URL doesn't append F, R or O
  • Fixed loading GEDCOMs with individuals with null IDs

New in Family Tree Analyzer 5.0.1.1 (Apr 16, 2015)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Facts reduced minimum width of sources column
  • Unicode diacritics no longer removed for displaying locations still removed for comparisons
  • CensusReference checking now checks across continuation lines and keeps checking if a census record already exists
  • Don't include occupation facts in On this Day's facts
  • Allow duplicated created census facts if there are multiple census references for a single year to highlight to user the potential issue
  • Duplicated created census facts now show in duplicated facts report
  • Make all census reference searches lazy
  • Tweaks to census references to fix folio numbers with alphabetic suffixes
  • Census year check now fixed for Census XXXX or XXXX Census references

New in Family Tree Analyzer 5.0.1.0 (Apr 15, 2015)

  • Updates:
  • Census References now give better locations as taken from the census piece number descriptions on FindMyPast & Ancestry
  • Calculated Birth Facts now have their own FactType
  • Added option to exclude auto created locations from locations list
  • Census References now displays on all fact reports
  • Added tooltip to Census Ref column in Facts report if census reference URL available

New in Family Tree Analyzer 5.0.0.2 (Apr 14, 2015)

  • Fixed issue with census references with no sources passing null dates around causing load GEDCOM to fail

New in Family Tree Analyzer 5.0.0.0 Beta 12 (Apr 10, 2015)

  • Updates:
  • Auto created facts now give clearer description of whether fact was generated from a source or notes record
  • On This Day now requires user to press button before it displays results
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Changed Double Date warning
  • Colour Census double clicks now work for all bar not alive and known missing

New in Family Tree Analyzer 5.0.0.0 Beta 11 (Apr 9, 2015)

  • New Features:
  • Both of these features come with options to turn them on or off.
  • Census Reference reports now have clickable links to see the census page results on Find My Past website.

New in Family Tree Analyzer 5.0.0.0 Beta 10 (Apr 8, 2015)

  • Updates:
  • Children status errors now have own error type
  • Family facts errors now shown separately from individual fact errors.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Wiki citation text stripped from world events to make for easier reading.
  • quotTextquot in Wiki text is now filtered.

New in Family Tree Analyzer 5.0.0.0 Beta 8 (Apr 7, 2015)

  • Updates:
  • Added new and tweaked various census reference formats
  • Bug fixes:
  • Source titles & publication fields are now properly searched for all variants of census references
  • World events weren't showing if there were no GEDCOM events for the period
  • Duplicate Fact report no longer reports duplicates of created facts

New in Family Tree Analyzer 5.0.0.0 Beta 4 (Apr 6, 2015)

  • New Features:
  • Added support for auto creating census records from identified census references in notes and source records. This will go a long way to helping users with older family tree applications that have no census facts.
  • Today Tab now shows events that happened in your tree and world events from that date or that month in the past
  • Updates:
  • Renewed Code Signing Certificate
  • Census reference checks llow multiple spaces between parts
  • Census References now don't need ; or , to match.
  • Update count in load screen to show created census facts
  • Allow < and > in dates ie: replace with BEF and AFT
  • Added Lost Cousins My Ancestors page census reference formats
  • FTAnalyzer census comment now explains what reference it found to justify creating fact
  • Facts now display comments if available.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Set duplicates trackbar to only have 20 ticks
  • Fixed issue with AFT dates messing up duplicates calcs
  • Allow for Unicoded files
  • Notes don't have to have the word census to be checked for census references
  • If a references is found in a note its added as a fact the reference removed and try again so it can try to find multiple references in one note.

New in Family Tree Analyzer 4.1.1.4 (Mar 4, 2015)

  • Updates:
  • Individuals export now exports relation to root column
  • Bug Fixes:
  • 29th or higher great grandparents now show correctly in relation to root calculations

New in Family Tree Analyzer 4.1.1.3 (Jul 17, 2014)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Region shifts now only consider UK regions
  • Files with bad data now clear data they partially loaded
  • US Census ref was being loaded but not displayed
  • Fix issue with Channel Islands not counting as part of England & Wales for census

New in Family Tree Analyzer 4.1.1.2 (Jul 7, 2014)

  • Updates:
  • Added Enumeration District detection to US census ref

New in Family Tree Analyzer 4.1.1.1 (Jul 3, 2014)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fix for loose birth ranged birth year and no other facts
  • Children status now excepts Living as alternate for alive
  • Red for mismatched entries was on wrong columns
  • Report unrecognised census refs wasn't linked to button
  • Multiple marriages was wrongly affecting loose births

New in Family Tree Analyzer 4.1.1.0 (Jul 2, 2014)

  • Updates:
  • Added ignore option to mismatched census references. This allows you to hide results where the reason is two families on same census page but different addresses.
  • Filter button on census ref facts report allows you to show/hide census reference mismatches
  • Added At Sea as a special country that doesn't get Google lookups so it can be used for manual setting of locations where people were born/married/died etc at sea in various parts of the world.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Isle of Wight fact location fix

New in Family Tree Analyzer 4.1.0.2 (Jul 2, 2014)

  • New Features:
  • Added an Inconsistent Census refs vs locations report
  • Added 1911 census families Missing a Children Status report
  • Added 1911 census families Mismatched Children Status report
  • Add recognition of Ignore for Children Status
  • Added support for Close GEDCOM file menu
  • Added Missing Facts Filter
  • Added Duplicate Facts Filter
  • Updates:
  • Added random surname select to Colour Census
  • OS fuzzy search now works on missing parish names
  • OS fuzzy search checks to see if within suitable distance of previously found Google partial/level mismatch
  • People form now allows shift double click to see family colour census report
  • Children Status picked up from NOTE tag as well as EVEN tag
  • Missing Facts report is now limited to a single report fact per person and double clicking an individual gives individuals facts
  • Add Children status family name column for easier sorting
  • Add check for children status total = alive + dead
  • Loose births makes sure the individual would be of marrying age
  • Loose births checks persons birth is before parents die
  • Bug fixes:
  • Beef up error message on null pointer on load to show inner exception text
  • Strings for spouse names were missing on mismatch report
  • typo on census tab button
  • inconsistent facts report title wasn't being displayed
  • Ignored facts weren't being ignored on census inconsistent report
  • alive/dead totals were counting children born after census as not alive thus dead.
  • AFT dates strings don't need to say 1 JAN if only a year
  • Editing locations no longer loses it's place when reverse geocoding updates list

New in Family Tree Analyzer 4.0.0.0 Beta 1 (Jun 4, 2014)

  • New Features:
  • Scottish 1930 Parish Boundary maps are now supported
  • OS Open Data 50k Gazetteer can now be used to lookup placenames
  • Updates:
  • Colour BMD report now has adjusted tooltips for over 90s
  • Locations sorting is now house number agnostic
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Updated Fact Report to correct count of distinct individuals

New in Family Tree Analyzer 3.7.3.3 (Jun 4, 2014)

  • New Features:
  • Added family drop down filter to colour reports so now you can view just a single family at a time
  • Added support for Interpreted dates
  • Added Help menu Link to Online Guides
  • Added support for Family Historian Living flag
  • Added data error type flagged as Living but has death date
  • Updates:
  • Added support for Scottish Valuation Rolls as "census" reports
  • Facts report now has birth date - assists identifying multiple individuals of same name
  • Added progress bar to Surnames tab display
  • Tweaks to colour BMD tooltips
  • Move option "Include Locations with Partial Match Status" to Mapping settings
  • Added several more countries to recognised countries list including extras like Gibraltar and Hong Kong
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixes for Lost Cousins tab census report
  • Changed LC facts no census to LC Facts bad/missing census
  • Removed now redundant no country no LC fact as covered by bad/missing
  • Footer text clear on tab switch now consistent across tabs
  • Dont use date filter for family groups on colour census report
  • Wrapped web calls in helper routine with try catch so failure to launch website will no longer crash program
  • Census report now checks to see if census done for bold highlighting
  • Recent File List now checks if file exists before adding to or displaying list
  • Fix Fact Sources trying to display marriage facts caused a crash
  • Updated source fact count to be 1 for each person in marriage instead of 1 for each shared fact
  • Source IDs are now zero padded same as individual and family IDs which makes sorting work as expected

New in Family Tree Analyzer 3.7.2.2 (Jun 4, 2014)

  • Updates:
  • Update URL for Lives of First World War to cope now the site has gone live
  • Change FindMyPast search to work with new search
  • Add extra tags to recognise custom events as normal facts
  • Lost Cousins stats now shows census records with no countries and no Lost Cousins facts
  • Added report to show Census facts missing country and Lost Cousins flag
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Restoring a v3.1.2.0 database was failing
  • Death Location width on census can now be resized
  • Source Facts include error facts
  • Add Datagridview double buffering to improve flicker on grid redraw
  • Facts now log individuals
  • Family facts were getting hidden with v3.7.2.0
  • Strip spaces from census references to make matching space insensitive

New in Family Tree Analyzer 3.7.1.1 (Jun 4, 2014)

  • New Features:
  • Census Tab now has four new reports showing census records that have :
  • census references
  • are missing census references
  • partial census references
  • unrecognised census references
  • Added button to export unrecognised census facts to a text file for reporting issues with patterns that aren't being recognised
  • Updates:
  • Before 1600 don't warn about marriages pre 13 years old
  • Census facts now count for facts before birth
  • Census facts now used for loose births
  • Export to Excel referrals now uses custom interface
  • Filter out Out of Country entries in census and colour census reports
  • Reorganised Census tab to make it tidier
  • Tidied up census tooltip text
  • Added help button to link to census documentation
  • Use upper case for fact types
  • Added option to hide missing tagged people from census reports
  • Shift click on census form now shows facts
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed out of UK but on UK census people not appearing on Lost Cousins reports
  • Export from People form was crashing
  • Counts for Lost Cousins facts was double counting people from UK eg: counting them as both Scotland & England
  • Fix census refs only showing for LC years
  • Out of UK Census refs werent being displayed
  • Facts before birth & after death no longer appear twice
  • Export Lost Cousins Referrals and Export Sources were crashing
  • Fix Column sizing of census refs
  • Channel Islands now recognised as part of UK for census references

New in Family Tree Analyzer 3.7.0.2 (Jun 4, 2014)

  • New Features:
  • Added US, Canadian and Irish Colour census reports
  • Age facts that give a calculated birth add a calculated birth fact
  • Add support for Alias fact type
  • Added option to display alias in name displays
  • Updates:
  • Add filter to remove someone from colour report who was never in country
  • Show preferred fact status on fact report
  • Armed Services and At Sea UK census now included on colour census report as part of relevant UK census - needs appropriate census ref to work
  • Colour Census now filters out records where person is too old to be on census but death date is unknown
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fix to Age tag with BEF dates
  • Census refs now tolerate lack of spaces after :
  • Schedule numbers can now be 4 digits
  • Only add preferred facts to preferred fact list
  • Lost Cousins facts won't now show orange if any UK fact is present
  • If no preferred facts get first fact of that type - usually calculated fact
  • Colour census filters now show only distinct records
  • Lost Cousins facts for overseas UK census entries now checks census fact country rather than LC country

New in Family Tree Analyzer 3.6.1.3 (Apr 28, 2014)

  • New Features
  • Added Export to Excel for Treetops and World Wars Reports
  • Added Option to show compact census references
  • Updates
  • Add Witnesses as custom fact type so that it functions the same as Witness custom fact type
  • FamilySearch set as default search provider for Lost Cousins Searches
  • Added features to exclude people with unknown births from census reports
  • Bug Fixes
  • Colour census "All green" now includes all with flag of green
  • Tweaks to Loose Births to ignore effects of long range dates
  • FamilySearch now understands UK Searches
  • Default FamilySearch UK census searches to England if unknown country
  • GoogleFixes.xml allows empty to strings

New in Family Tree Analyzer 3.6.0.2 (Apr 28, 2014)

  • New Features
  • Added Loose Birth & Death export to Excel menu items
  • Added Lost Cousins Referrals Report
  • Added Export Sources to Excel
  • Updates
  • Added notice of XP support removal
  • Locations now understand ISO 3166-1 Alpha-3 country codes
  • Duplicate check now uses standardised name file to compare forenames thus understanding that eg:Jacobus and James are variants of the same name, even though they don't sound alike.
  • Referrals sorts using Lost Cousins Short Codes.
  • Duplicate checks now give heavy penalty to known different parents
  • Add filter function to show only matching referrals
  • Referral report now has title and status bar count
  • Bug Fixes
  • Printng, previewing and exporting to excel no longer fails if no records listed
  • Facts before birth and facts after death now flags as errors
  • Locations show maps buttons weren't showing correct viewports
  • Allow census references to be less specific for matching
  • Facts that have ADDR and PLAC tags now use both
  • Colour BMD Filter two values were wrong way round
  • Fix for Western Australia being mistaken for Washington, USA
  • Census refs can optionally end in a ;
  • Library Updates
  • Updated SharpMap to v1.1
  • Updated BruTile to v0.9.8
  • Replaced TreeViewMS with MultiSelectTreeView

New in Family Tree Analyzer 3.6.0.0 Beta 5 (Apr 28, 2014)

  • New Features
  • Added Loose Birth & Death export to Excel menu items
  • Added Lost Cousins Referrals Report
  • Added Export Sources to Excel
  • Updates
  • Added notice of XP support removal
  • Locations now understand ISO country codes
  • Duplicate check now uses standardised name file to compare forenames thus understanding that eg:Jacobus and James are variants of the same name, even though they don't sound alike.
  • Referrals sorts using Lost Cousins Short Codes.
  • Duplicate checks now give heavy penalty to known different parents
  • Add filter function to show only matching referrals
  • Referral report now has title and status bar count
  • Bug Fixes
  • Printng, previewing and exporting to excel no longer fails if no records listed
  • Facts before birth and facts after death now flags as errors
  • Referrals use isCensusFact rather than facttype=census - this picks up residence facts if in use
  • Different parents is a penalty not a bonus
  • Referral relation types use LC type descriptions
  • Locations show maps buttons weren't showing correct viewports
  • Duplicates no longer crashes for one parent families
  • Referrals were wrongly picking up root persons relation type & include rather than referee's relation type & include
  • Library Updates
  • Updated SharpMap to v1.1
  • Updated BruTile to v0.9.8
  • Replaced TreeViewMS with MultiSelectTreeView

New in Family Tree Analyzer 3.5.1.0 (Apr 11, 2014)

  • Updates:
  • Include UNKNOWN & Reference facts
  • Sources form columns now resizable
  • People form now has toolbar to allow printing and exporting to Excel
  • Bug Fixes:
  • More robustly deal with facts & sources so that every fact is linked to its source and vice versa.
  • Treetops and World Wars no longer multi select
  • Hourglass change that broke hourglass now fixed again
  • Apply common default sorting to people form
  • Library Updates:
  • Updated Log4Net to v1.2.13
  • Update DotNetZip to 1.9.2
  • Update SQLLite to 1.0.92

New in Family Tree Analyzer 3.4.1.0 (Mar 29, 2014)

  • Updates:
  • Added Child Born facts to facts reports so that it gives a better timeline of facts for an individual
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed crash if user clicks on duplicates grid or slider etc whilst duplicates data is being calculated.
  • Updated Hourglass function
  • Fixed flickering on duplicates tab

New in Family Tree Analyzer 3.4.0.0 (Mar 29, 2014)

  • New Features:
  • Added a duplicates report - allows you to check if you have any likely duplicates in your file
  • Added a filter to the facts report tab
  • Added a sources report available by double clicking on a fact in the facts report
  • Updated Features:
  • Added support for Family Historian Census references
  • Facts report now shows surname at date field
  • Multiple individual facts reports for different individuals can now be open at the same time
  • Shift clicking on WWI searches now searches beta version of Lives of First World War site to try to find Life story page for that individual
  • Added support for alternate name facts they appear as extra facts in the facts report
  • Added parent fact type to facts report
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Relation to root wasn't showing on census reports
  • Lost cousins census report tooltips were inaccurate
  • Lost cousins census report now has an option of a shift click to search census
  • Fix for null locations causing duplicates crash
  • Fixed facts reports reached by double clicking on individuals in duplicates page
  • Fixed 1911 Family Historian census references
  • Reports multiple fact forms for duplicate option on load
  • Allowed 1841 Family historian census reference to be more tolerant of variants.
  • Added select all/deselect all to fact tab
  • Single click now works for selecting fact types to filter
  • Unknown fact types no longer have blank descriptions

New in Family Tree Analyzer 3.4.0.0 Beta 11 (Mar 29, 2014)

  • New Features:
  • Added a duplicates report
  • Added support for Family Historian Census references
  • Added a filter to the facts report tab
  • Facts report now shows surname at date field
  • Multiple individual facts reports for different individuals can now be open at the same time
  • Double clicking on a fact in Facts report now shows Sources report
  • Expanded contents of source reports parsed from GEDCOM
  • Shift clicking on WWI searches now searches beta version of Lives of First World War site to try to find Life story page for that individual
  • Added support for alternate name facts they appear as extra facts in the facts report
  • Added parent fact type to facts report
  • Duplicates Report:
  • Added option to duplicates report to cancel calculation if it was clicked in error
  • Added titles to the two columns
  • Added debug score info to slider
  • Reformatted duplicates report to be single form
  • Added extra duplicates checks
  • Sort order changed to sort by score
  • Order of columns changed to have score at start
  • Removed relation type and relation to root columns from cluttering up duplicates report
  • Sort order no longer resets on changing slider
  • Different death dates now reduces chance of a duplicate
  • Added option to show all facts in one report or multiple facts windows from duplicates report
  • Added option to ignore possible duplicates that are known not to be duplicates
  • Duplicates score increased by number of shared children
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Relation to root wasn't showing on census reports
  • Lost cousins census report tooltips were inaccurate
  • Lost cousins census report now has an option of a shift click to search census
  • Fix for null locations causing duplicates crash
  • Fixed facts reports reached by double clicking on individuals in duplicates page
  • Fixed 1911 Family Historian census references
  • Reports multiple fact forms for duplicate option on load
  • Allowed 1841 Family historian census reference to be more tolerant of variants.
  • Added select all/deselect all to fact tab
  • Single click now works for selecting fact types to filter
  • Unknown fact types no longer have blank descriptions

New in Family Tree Analyzer 3.3.3.0 (Mar 29, 2014)

  • New Features:
  • Added Relation to Root description column to various reports
  • Add support for 1901 & 1911 Ancestry Irish Census searches
  • Double date errors now have reason message.
  • Added relationship progress bar
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Lost Cousins and Census Facts were erroring for non UK census dates
  • Printing forms was erroneously using same title for all reports
  • Colour reports right columns now sizable

New in Family Tree Analyzer 3.3.3.0 Beta Test 5 (Mar 29, 2014)

  • Added GoogleFixes.xml
  • Added Relation to Root feature
  • Added support for 1901 & 1911 Irish Census searching via Ancestry
  • Fixed issue with loading of colour census report
  • Disabled "step" in relation to root calculations should probably be "half"
  • Fixed Lost Cousins and Census Facts erroring for non UK census dates
  • Fixed Printing forms erroneously using same title for all reports
  • Fixed saving position of form remembering position on reload
  • Added dummy right column to Colour census for test of resizing last column - doesn't work well
  • Double date errors now give reason for error
  • Set as root now replicates actions of initial set as root on loading GEDCOM
  • Set step to be for father/mother/son/daughter and half for brother/sister
  • Clear relation descriptions prior to changing root

New in Family Tree Analyzer 3.3.2.8 (Mar 29, 2014)

  • New Features:
  • Surname tab - reports counts of individuals, families & marriages in a family.
  • Also links to Guild of One Name Studies site where surname is a GOONS study
  • Added option for users to use their own GoogleFixes.xml file
  • Added support for 1921 Canadian Census
  • Updates:
  • Added restore tooltip
  • Added remember location feature to most forms
  • Added logging for Google fixes
  • Google fixes now load when GEDCOM loads and reports to the stats window
  • Double dates now uses the upper year not lower year as the upper bound on a date
  • Force database update to clean up bad viewport items
  • Add logging for re-trying with original location text
  • Title bar now shows which GEDCOM file you are working on
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fix dates with huge numbers of spaces
  • Count of not searched locations was wrong
  • Fix miterlimit to avoid mitred joins on line ends
  • Fix for saving size and position of mainform
  • Add end cap triangles to line.
  • Places selection now actually shows a result
  • Fix for max living date within 9 months of MINDATE.
  • Fix for edit location not restoring pre-search value if clicked no to save on exit
  • Fix for edit location search not moving to correct location on search
  • Google geocoding viewport was getting wrongly set
  • Updating location geocode status now correctly updates treeviews
  • Colour BMD & Census column widths now save/reload properly
  • 1881 LostCousins years wasn't showing correct colours
  • 1911 Irish Lost Cousins census wasn't showing people

New in Family Tree Analyzer 3.3.2.6 (Mar 1, 2014)

  • Fixes:
  • Colour BMD & Census column widths now save/reload properly
  • 1881 LostCousins years wasn't showing correct colours

New in Family Tree Analyzer 3.3.2.5 (Jan 31, 2014)

  • New Features:
  • Surname tab - reports counts of individuals, families & marriages in a family.
  • Also links to Guild of One Name Studies site where surname is a GOONS study
  • Added option for users to use their own GoogleFixes.xml file
  • Updates:
  • Added restore tooltip
  • Added remember location feature to most forms
  • Added logging for Google fixes
  • Google fixes now load when GEDCOM loads and reports to the stats window
  • Double dates now uses the upper year not lower year as the upper bound on a date
  • Force database update to clean up bad viewport items
  • Add logging for re-trying with original location text
  • Title bar now shows which GEDCOM file you are working on
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fix dates with huge numbers of spaces
  • Count of not searched locations was wrong
  • Fix miterlimit to avoid mitred joins on line ends
  • Fix for saving size and position of mainform
  • Add end cap triangles to line.
  • Places selection now actually shows a result
  • Fix for max living date within 9 months of MINDATE.
  • Fix for edit location not restoring pre-search value if clicked no to save on exit
  • Fix for edit location search not moving to correct location on search
  • Google geocoding viewport was getting wrongly set
  • Updating location geocode status now correctly updates treeviews

New in Family Tree Analyzer 3.3.2.3 (Dec 14, 2013)

  • Google geocoding viewport was getting wrongly set

New in Family Tree Analyzer 3.3.2.2 (Dec 12, 2013)

  • Fix for edit location not restoring pre-search value if clicked no to save on exit
  • Fix for edit location search not moving to correct location on search

New in Family Tree Analyzer 3.3.2.1 (Dec 11, 2013)

  • New Features:
  • Surname tab - reports counts of individuals, families & marriages in a family.
  • Also links to Guild of One Name Studies site where surname is a GOONS study
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fix dates with huge numbers of spaces
  • Count of not searched locations was wrong
  • Fix miterlimit to avoid mitred joins on line ends
  • Fix for saving size and position of mainform
  • Add end cap triangles to line.
  • Places selection now actually shows a result
  • Fix for max living date within 9 months of MINDATE.

New in Family Tree Analyzer 3.2.0.0 (Nov 22, 2013)

  • Major Features:
  • Added Lifelines map - shows where ancestors lived with lines for how they moved over time. Allows selection of one or more individuals
  • Added ability to display custom maps
  • Added ability to display English & Welsh parish boundaries on a map
  • Added Facts Report this shows all facts recorded in your database for all individuals
  • Lifelines Map:
  • Shows lists of people and where they move in time
  • Right click a person to select all family their members, ancestors, descendants or all relatives
  • Displays Google & geocoding data in lifeline facts
  • Double click any lifeline fact to enable location editing for that fact location
  • Added a save & exit button to edit locations
  • Added option to hide labels
  • Updates:
  • Relations check only now sets direct ancestor for natural parent ie: step/adopted etc parents
  • Added remaining recognised countries
  • When geocoding if no Google Match with country, county, region string try again with GEDCOM Location
  • Add option to reset partials
  • Add event to location editing to refresh lifeline facts
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fix bug with valid double dates with double date year ending in 00
  • Fixed double dates isbefore, startsbefore, isafter, endsafter
  • Remove "fix" for Durham as it was causing towns in Durham to appear in Durham, Durham.
  • Retried partial Google Matches now works
  • Fixed locations tab bold text for known countries
  • Lost Cousins census check in coloured reports now checks census country before flagging yellow.
  • Exiting edit location checks for saved point if yes to save rather than search moving point.
  • Turn off auto size mode on source column in facts
  • Fix surname search for facts
  • If GEDCOM CHAR set is UTF-8 then use the UTF-8 encoding

New in Family Tree Analyzer 3.1.2.0 (Nov 11, 2013)

  • New Features:
  • Added database restore option
  • Allow for natural/step/adopted etc relationships (uses _MREL & _FREL tags)
  • Added support for 3 digit years (year only)
  • Added count of unknown facttypes on load
  • Data Errors now show unknown fact types
  • Save main form's size on close
  • Reverse Geocoding now uses zoom level to pick place
  • Logger added creates a FTAnalyzer.log file for reverse geocoding info and future debugging support
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fact dates tolerate spaces between dashes
  • Force Treeview font to bold or regular to hopefully fix truncation issues

New in Family Tree Analyzer 3.1.1.0 (Nov 8, 2013)

  • Double clicking now zooms in (left) or out (right)
  • New Search box jumps to locations entered if Google can identify it
  • New Edit button allows you to pick up marker even if its not on current zoom level
  • Reset button will reset the location back to close to how it was on load
  • Added option to copy and paste locations - useful when you have several locations in same street/place and you don't want to manually edit them all
  • Marking a location as verified or editing a location now updates the Google location by reverse geocoding
  • Added check for Ancestry 1911 census references
  • Tweaks to Google Georeferencing levels
  • Fixed map issue when behind a proxy
  • Understands GEDCOM DEATH Y tags used when death date/location unknown but it is known the individual is dead.
  • Added support for MON YYYY-MON YYYY format dates

New in Family Tree Analyzer 3.1.0.1 (Nov 4, 2013)

  • New Features:
  • The Mapping feature can now view your locations using Historic OS Maps and modern OS Maps.
  • Updates:
  • Map location list now shows Google location
  • Backup of Geocodes database remembers last backup location
  • Map selector remembers the last map used
  • Bugfixes:
  • Don't add pre-marriage individuals if already in a family

New in Family Tree Analyzer 3.0.2.4 (Oct 31, 2013)

  • Added Lost Cousins missing country report
  • Tweaked Loose Births to take account of childrens ages
  • Fixed bug with export to excel from census report

New in Family Tree Analyzer 3.0.2.1 (Oct 28, 2013)

  • Added right click menus to census, Lost Cousins, and both colour reports to view facts for individuals.
  • Fixed issue with 1851 & 1901 census dates for colour report not working due to matching Canadian census dates
  • Tolerated census dates now set the adjusted year
  • Family facts weren't getting checked for data errors when added to facts list

New in Family Tree Analyzer 3.0.2.0 Beta Test 3 (Oct 28, 2013)

  • Colour BMDs won't now show red for people still likely to be alive
  • Added extra 4 year double date option
  • Changed icon for Google Partial match
  • grey/white banding on census report now groups by sort column

New in Family Tree Analyzer 3.0.2.0 Beta Test 2 (Oct 28, 2013)

  • Using Google Maps Geocoder v3
  • Added Use Burial/Cremation dates if no death date
  • Move PostCode to being address rather than place
  • Fix US Census that were inaccurate dates
  • Add option to set minimum parental age for loose births
  • Added level mismatched status
  • Added Select All/Clear All to Geocode status
  • Fixed issue where Google partials were being overwritten

New in Family Tree Analyzer 3.0.1.0 (Oct 28, 2013)

  • New Features:
  • Added a Loose Births report
  • Added ability to backup Geocoding database
  • Added option to only apply family census facts to parents
  • People on a census outside UK now show as such in census report (includes "equivalent" US census year eg: 1880 for 1881 UK).
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fix check for notsearched and partialmatch not re-checking Google.

New in Family Tree Analyzer 3.0.0.2 (Oct 28, 2013)

  • Introduces a new mapping feature that allows you to see your ancestors plotted on a modern Google Map.This works by searching Google Maps for the locations in your GEDCOM and storing the results. This process is known as Geocoding. The program can then plot those results on various types of map.

New in Family Tree Analyzer 3.0.0.0 Beta Test 5 (Oct 28, 2013)

  • Added option to show/hide scalebar
  • Lost Cousins and census reports now reporting correct numbers
  • Add in hidden menus to cope with unknown google geocode types
  • Fixed issues with excluding unknown and ranged marriage dates from census family
  • Fixed issue with Census families where they marry after census date but have children before
  • Fixed people with census as children when they have no parents eg: census found prior to marriage but no parents entered
  • cater for unknown countries in census match
  • Add count for Lost Cousins facts with no country
  • Google Geocoding now respects country bounding boxes for Scotland, England, Wales, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand, France & Belgium

New in Family Tree Analyzer 3.0.0.0 Beta Test 4 (Oct 28, 2013)

  • Added support for Scottish census references
  • Capture 1841 census references for England & Wales
  • Moved Places to a submenu of Google Location result types
  • Hide menus when year turned off
  • Change text for retry partial
  • Fix for Timeline select button showing unselected
  • Added map scalebar to timeline map
  • Map Individuals sorts by individual ID

New in Family Tree Analyzer 3.0.0.0 Beta Test 3 (Oct 28, 2013)

  • Fix timeline movement buttons to anchor correctly
  • Tweaks to geocode location to pickup first address on a partial
  • Added querygrow factor to points to make selecting on timeline less fiddly
  • Add option to display all locations
  • Timeline step change is 5 if range is 150 years or less
  • Implemented fact date limits in timeline
  • Timeline status bar re-iterates the year
  • Lost Cousins report now works again added extra counts and census reference fields
  • Census form (for census and Lost cousins) is now fully sortable

New in Family Tree Analyzer 3.0.0.0 Beta Test 2 (Oct 28, 2013)

  • Displays all records if all geocoding filers are active
  • Added some missing Google result types
  • Added Select All/Clear All option to Google Result types
  • Added edit location button to MapIndividuals
  • Added navigations buttons to timeline

New in Family Tree Analyzer 2.2.1.1 (Sep 28, 2013)

  • Fix for 1Q style quarter days

New in Family Tree Analyzer 2.2.1.0 (Sep 25, 2013)

  • Colour BMD, Colour Census, Facts Report & Census all now:
  • use custom data grids have export to excel
  • have printing options including colours and icons
  • have sortable columns
  • save/load/reload column order, sort order and column widths
  • Census facts on family are now included in all individuals in family alive at time of census
  • Changing Use Residence facts as census facts now requires a reload to force update of data errors
  • Status bar message on main form now shows what actions can happen on a double click
  • First tentative search Ancestry.co.uk code on double click BMD

New in Family Tree Analyzer 2.2.0.1 (Sep 24, 2013)

  • Residence facts location checked for census date warning.
  • Do not prompt to reload file if no settings are changed.
  • Fix for unknown death dates not being checked for loose deaths
  • Added Reload option to main form
  • Added missing BMD report filters
  • Speedup loading of colour reports fix sort order
  • Various extra countries recognised
  • All standalone forms now implement custom column ordering
  • Printing now allows icon printing and colours printing

New in Family Tree Analyzer 2.2.0.0 (Sep 24, 2013)

  • Coloured Census form now moved to separate tab "Search Summaries"
  • Added BMD colour report to "Search Summaries" tab
  • Facts now checks for valid census dates
  • Added option to tolerate Census dates where the year is right but the exact date is wrong these are accepted if the census year is valid
  • Counts of errors and warnings for Census, Residence and Lost Cousins facts shown on load
  • Changes:
  • Facts List now displays sources
  • Added Age at Fact to Facts display
  • Added Select All/Clear All to data errors list
  • Data Errors are now sortable and have an error type column
  • Added Census date range too wide error type
  • Moved Treat Residence Facts as Census facts to a Global option
  • Add support for 1921 Canada Census
  • Added a report an issue link to help menu
  • Treeview now allows map views buttons to work
  • Fact Form now shows error facts for an individual too with error icons and tooltips for reason

New in Family Tree Analyzer 2.1.3.0 (Aug 26, 2013)

  • Added new Facts report which is available for Individuals or Families. To view it double click on an individual or family any of the main reports (bar census when double clicking searches the census).
  • Now when you see a data error you can double click on it to see the facts for that person. Same with Loose Death (why is it loose you think) double click lists the facts and you can see why. Individuals report double click lists individuals for that Individual, Family report double click lists all the facts for the husband and wife and the birth facts for the children.
  • Other fixes:
  • Printing now has custom titles, narrower margins and print selection capability.
  • Minor bug fixes and text tweaks.

New in Family Tree Analyzer 2.1.2.1 (Aug 25, 2013)

  • Added check for Facts after death in data errors
  • Added Excel Export to Lost Cousins and Census Report
  • Various minor bug fixes:
  • Rename Family "Count" property to FamilySize to avoid confusion of it being count of children
  • Cope correctly with FROM and TO and FROM xxxx TO yyyy dates.
  • Family size sort sorts on family id for the families of same size

New in Family Tree Analyzer 2.1.2.0 (Aug 24, 2013)

  • GEDCOM drag n drop warns if not valid GEDCOM file
  • Recognises all variants of *.ged and even non *.ged if its a valid GEDCOM
  • Fix XXX QTR 1 date formats stripping 1000 years from date
  • Added option to allow empty strings in locations
  • Recognises Family Historian's custom _ROOT tag to identify root individual

New in Family Tree Analyzer 2.1.0.1 (Aug 22, 2013)

  • Filtering now on individuals so correctly excludes people from known countries. eg: no more USA people appearing in UK census search
  • Census list sorting now more robust
  • Significantly more facts handled and understood
  • Adding the extra facts has improved the Loose Deaths calculation as it now can understand more possible facts where person is alive
  • Added US & Canada searching of Census records from census search. Supports Ancestry & FamilySearch
  • Reworked Locations code to display regions, subregions, address, & place where last field is empty this should be more intuitive
  • Census columns can now be ordered by the user
  • Census column ordering can now be saved or reverted to "factory defaults" by the user
  • Dates with Quarters now have extra month fudge factor to account for late event reporting
  • Many more cities and countries added to list of known places
  • Known countries now show as bold to highlight them
  • Individuals report now has count of number of marriages and number of children to all marriages
  • Locations tab is now sortable
  • Two new data errors for Invalid Lost Cousins facts
  • Lost Cousins Census report now shows LC fact present without census fact
  • Lots of minor bug fixes

New in Family Tree Analyzer 2.0.3.0 (Aug 20, 2013)

  • Added support for US & Canada searching of Ancestry website
  • Closing a census form now checks if another census of the same year is open
  • Recognises a whole lot more fact types
  • Census age box slightly wider
  • Added Exit menu option.
  • Changed to using .Net 4.0 Client Profile by adding the required functions from System.Web.HttpUtility as a new class.
  • Census and LC reports now set the datagrid as the focus after changing drop-down item.
  • Census Lists now show all supported census selections if ignoring countries
  • Force Gedcom file encoding to use ISO Western European to read non-ASCII characters correctly.

New in Family Tree Analyzer 2.0.2.0 (Aug 20, 2013)

  • Now copes with JAN / FEB / MAR type dates.
  • Fix factdate error reporting reporting things twice.
  • Lost Cousins report now has a variety of filters to filter the display
  • FactDates now cope with various new BETween dates
  • Fix bug where it was possible to accidentally open several duplicate windows
  • Fix bug when setting root person was displaying popup menu wrongly

New in Family Tree Analyzer 2.0.1.3 (Aug 20, 2013)

  • Added individual id to census report
  • FactDate now warns of invalid BET date formats on load
  • Statistics chart wasn't displaying or reporting teenage parents
  • Custom Census facts as used in The Master Genealogist are now recognised
  • Fact Location for families now uses the location closest to the average date for the family, this should be sometime around or just after the marriage date. The idea is instead of the previous random long location it now uses a date nearer the middle of the marriage or closest to where the bulk of the facts about that family are recorded.
  • Date format recognition tweaks
  • Icon is tweaked to remove white dot artifacts
  • Yorkshire Ridings should now be better recognised

New in Family Tree Analyzer 2.0.1.2 (Aug 20, 2013)

  • Loader now shows which file was loaded
  • Loader now shows residence as well as census facts

New in Family Tree Analyzer 2.0.1.1 (Aug 20, 2013)

  • New printing options added to various reports on main tabs
  • v2.0.1.1 adds printing to data load results screen too
  • Code is now signed by full certificate instead of temporary one. This requires a clean install from website.

New in Family Tree Analyzer 2.0.0.4 (Aug 20, 2013)

  • Added Export to Excel features
  • Installer is now a Click Once installer
  • Understands various non standard date formats eg: Q1 1850.
  • Displays count of census facts on load and warning if no facts found
  • Deployment was missing out FactLocationFixes file
  • Census searching should allow Ancestry searching of US and Canada census (needs testing)
  • Census searching now remembers last search provider you used
  • Various minor bug fixes
  • Code now signed with full certificate

New in Family Tree Analyzer 1.5.8.0 (Aug 10, 2013)

  • Added Family Search automatic lookup to Census and Lost Cousins reports
  • Added understanding of various Qx year date types
  • War Dead and Treetops now don't limit result to countries by default
  • Older Parents report now has a user configurable year
  • Various minor bug fixes

New in Family Tree Analyzer 1.5.7.4 (Aug 9, 2013)

  • Various minor bug fixes see source code history check in for details.

New in Family Tree Analyzer 1.5.7.3 (Aug 6, 2013)

  • Added Places tab to Locations
  • Fixed issue with some families not showing up in locations
  • Limit age to max years

New in Family Tree Analyzer 1.5.7.2 (Aug 5, 2013)

  • Added Older Parent report to show parents over 50 when a child is born
  • Age function tweaked to be based on full date not just year

New in Family Tree Analyzer 1.5.7.1 (Aug 4, 2013)

  • Added a graph display and stepped the Child Age Profile in 5 year increments

New in Family Tree Analyzer 1.5.7.0 (Aug 2, 2013)

  • Added link to website documentation from help menu
  • Added mini report on children's age profile
  • Fixed issue with displaying ages

New in Family Tree Analyzer 1.5.6.0 (Aug 2, 2013)

  • Find My Past searching now works as well as Ancestry and FreeCen searches.
  • To use run the Census report to see who is missing off a census. Then click their name to search for that person. Note the white/grey shading shows different family groups as last known.
  • There are a LOT of changes in the Resources FactLocationFixes.xml file it is important for FindMyPast searching that the up to date version of this file is in your resources directory.

New in Family Tree Analyzer 1.3.2.0 Beta (Jul 7, 2010)

  • Add open folder button to IGI Search Form
  • Fixes to Fact Location processing - IGIName renamed to RegionID
  • Fix if Region ID not found then default to country
  • Lots of little tweaks to location fixing code

New in Family Tree Analyzer 1.3.1.0 Beta (Jun 28, 2010)

  • Added a cancel button to marriage and children IGI Searches
  • Opening Results window now automatically shows first record
  • Updated IGI form to select on country / region.
  • Add US States, Canadian Provinces and Welsh Counties
  • Change text boxes showing progress to be scrolling text boxes
  • IGI Search now uses multiple locations it finds in husband, wife & marriage facts in its searches
  • Lots of new location processing to try to fix inconsistent data and thus make more entries searchable in IGI search
  • Location processing updates can now be done via an XML file.