What's new in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2024 Build 240125

Jan 26, 2024
  • Maintenance release incorporating changes to reporter module; see revision history for The Complete Genealogy Reporter.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2023 Build 230805 (Aug 5, 2023)

  • Fixed: Possibility of PDF media file being misidentified as jpg, causing an unexpected program error in the image processing module.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2023 Build 230108 (Jan 8, 2023)

  • Fixed: Misprocessing of registration codes resulting in erroneous rejection.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2023 Build 230104 (Jan 4, 2023)

  • New: One-per-page without rotation option added for the Documents Section.
  • Improved: Retrieval speed for image files from internet locations is now significantly faster.
  • Improved: Brazilian language translation (minor correction).
  • Fixed: When Quality Data is excluded from a report, it no longer erroneously appears under sources for notes.
  • Fixed: Individuals with unknown birth/death date are no longer included in age calculations in the Introduction Section.
  • Fixed: Removal of spurious newline when reporting event with specified citation date.
  • Fixed: INCLUDE:MATCH entries in places description files were occasionally misprocessed (duplicated or missing) when coordinates are included.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2018 Build 210702 (Jul 2, 2021)

  • Fixed: Misprocessing of Place descriptions when places contained accented European characters.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2018 Build 210622 (Jun 22, 2021)

  • Maintenance release incorporating changes to reporter module; see revision history for The Complete Genealogy Reporter.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2018 Build 210419 (Apr 19, 2021)

  • Fixed: Internet files (images) with extremely long URLs were not being successfully retrieved.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2018 Build 210326 (Mar 26, 2021)

  • Maintenance release incorporating changes to reporter module:
  • Fixed: For Swedish, Danish and Finnish reports the relationship between related marriage partners is now shown consistently.
  • Improved: When the GEDCOM file records a full ADDR structure, but not a PLAC record, the CITY, STAE, and CTRY elements (if present) are extracted as the place. This is relevant particularly for MyHeritage users where the RESI ("Contact") data are exported as a full ADDR structure.
  • New: An additional reporting option (“Kusin, Småkusin, ...”) has been added to the "Language" preferences for the reporting of cousin relationships in Swedish reports for Finnish-Swedish users.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2018 Build 210310 (Mar 10, 2021)

  • Maintenance release incorporating changes to reporter module - Fixed: Documents were not separated from Photos when a "_TYPE DOCUMENT" tag is used to identify a document in the GEDCOM file.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2018 Build 210212 (Feb 12, 2021)

  • Improved: TCGB marriage status (Y/U/N) is now exported in GEDCOM exports for Embedded Objects (TCGB method) in order to provide status preservation on subsequent re-import.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module; see revision history for The Complete Genealogy Reporter.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2018 Build 210104 (Jan 4, 2021)

  • Fixed: Date fields (when used with images) were not imported when the media items are exported as separate OBJE records (e.g., Heredis)

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2018 Build 201219 (Dec 19, 2020)

  • Fixed: Relationship descriptions which omitted spouse/partner element for partners of adopted individuals.
  • Improved/Fixed: Previously, there may have been missing images in reports from MyHeritage GEDCOM files due to changes in the use of MyHeritage's _POSITION tag.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2018 Build 201208 (Dec 8, 2020)

  • Fixed: Occasional line-wrap errors in some non-English reports.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2018 Build 201201 (Dec 1, 2020)

  • Fixed: Date expressions starting sentences in lower rather than upper case. (Error inadvertently introduced in a recent update.)
  • Fixed: Additional formatting errors in reports containing right-to-left fonts (e.g. Hebrew).

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2018 Build 201120 (Nov 20, 2020)

  • Improved: "Unexpected Program Error" message format.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2018 Build 201013 (Oct 13, 2020)

  • Fixed: Occasional double commas (,,) appearing in reports as a side-effect of build 201006 changes.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2018 Build 201006 (Oct 6, 2020)

  • Fixed: Formatting errors in reports containing right-to-left fonts (e.g. Hebrew).
  • Fixed: Determination of the oldest male/female/person shown in the Introduction Section. It is now determined by days instead of years of age

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2018 Build 200912 (Sep 12, 2020)

  • Fixed: Issues with media layout when both Alphabetic Order and Two Landscape Images Per Page were selected. It is now not possible to select both options.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2018 Build 200905 (Sep 5, 2020)

  • Fixed: Sortation and sequencing issues with Media contents lists when listing alphabetically.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2018 Build 200827 (Aug 27, 2020)

  • Improved:
  • When preparing Ancestry Charts, the program now limits the analysis such that no individual will appear more than eight times on different paths. For most projects, this will have no effect whatsoever, but it will prevent unexpected program errors and avoid excessive processing when the project includes a very large number of multiple paths for an individual as a result of inter-branch marriages.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2018 Build 200821 (Aug 21, 2020)

  • Maintenance release incorporating changes to reporter module; see revision history for The Complete Genealogy Reporter.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2018 Build 200718 (Jul 18, 2020)

  • Fixed: Ancestry Charts omitting parental lines when an individual is an ancestor along more than one different path.
  • Fixed: Ancestry Charts occasionally mispositioning a part of a continuation section.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2018 Build 200622 (Jun 22, 2020)

  • Fixed: When exporting and importing GEDCOM files containing an embedded object which is linked to multiple records, the image cross-references are now correctly preserved.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module; see revision history for The Complete Genealogy Reporter.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2018 Build 200610 (Jun 10, 2020)

  • Fixed: Cutout coordinates are now correctly adjusted when exporting with embedded objects with image size reduction.
  • Fixed: Occasional freezing at the end of "Spell Check All Notes".
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module; see revision history for The Complete Genealogy Reporter.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2018 Build 200514 (May 14, 2020)

  • Fixed: Some misspelled French phrases in the French user interface translation.
  • Improved: "Décès" is now used instead of "La Mort" throughout for the French interface (less severe).
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2018 Build 200415 (Apr 15, 2020)

  • Maintenance release incorporating changes to reporter modul

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2018 Build 200403 (Apr 3, 2020)

  • Maintenance release incorporating changes to reporter module; see revision history for The Complete Genealogy Reporter.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2018 Build 200110 (Jan 10, 2020)

  • Fixed: Invisible "No exceptions found" dialog box when validating Unreferenced Notes. The dialog box is now shown.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module; see revision history for The Complete Genealogy Reporter.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2018 Build 191108 (Nov 8, 2019)

  • Fixed: Unexpected Program Error if incorrectly formatted registration code is entered into the program.
  • Fixed: Family events list (US English GUI interface) now shows "Marriage License" instead of "Marriage Licence"..
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module; see revision history for The Complete Genealogy Reporter.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2018 Build 191017 (Oct 17, 2019)

  • Fixed: GEDCOM import error in HTML text removal routine which would remove newlines from the text.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2018 Build 191016 (Oct 16, 2019)

  • Maintenance release incorporating changes to reporter module; see revision history for The Complete Genealogy Reporter.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2018 Build 191008 (Oct 8, 2019)

  • Fixed: Custom Attributes (GEDCOM 5.5.1) are now correctly exported as FACT tags instead of ATTR tags.
  • Fixed: FACT tags are now imported correctly if present in the GEDCOM file.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module; see revision history for The Complete Genealogy Reporter.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2018 Build 190913 (Sep 13, 2019)

  • Maintenance release incorporating changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2018 Build 190729 (Jul 29, 2019)

  • Maintenance release incorporating changes to reporter module; see revision history for The Complete Genealogy Reporter.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2018 Build 190629 (Jun 29, 2019)

  • Maintenance release incorporating changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2018 Build 190527 (May 27, 2019)

  • Fixed: In French reports, unmarried female partners are now each described as "conjointe". (Previously, one partner was described as conjoint.)
  • Fixed: In Spanish reports, the superscripted ordinal "ª" is now correctly used for female relations.
  • Fixed: In Norwegian reports, removed cousins were incorrectly descibed.
  • Improved: In Danish and Norwegian reports, "." is added to the day number in full dates.
  • Improved: In GEDCOM files that include CHIL data with no corresponding FAMC data, the assumption is now that the child pedigree is natural (instead of adopted).
  • Improved: When reporting one photograph per page, landscape images are rotated by 90 degrees (as was always the case for documents).
  • New: Support for "main"photos in Family Tree Maker - these correspond to preferred images and will appear as thumbnails in reports.
  • New: “_TYPE DOC” (exported by Legacy) is now processed as equivalent to “_TYPE DOCUMENT”.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2018 Build 180622 (Jun 22, 2018)

  • Fixed: Image files with Unicode characters within their filename are now correctly processed.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2018 Build 180611 (Jun 11, 2018)

  • Maintenance release incorporating changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2015 Build 171122 (Nov 22, 2017)

  • Fixed: Data marked "Private" is no longer exported to GEDCOM when the export options state that Private data should not be exported..
  • Fixed: Branch export (direct line and descendant line) now exports descendants correctly.
  • Incorporates new Page/Display preferences in the reporter module; see revision history for The Complete Genealogy Reporter.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2015 Build 171003 (Oct 3, 2017)

  • Maintenance release incorporating changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2015 Build 170929 (Sep 29, 2017)

  • Fixed: When using the "Find Family" facility for an "F" code, incorrect names were displayed when the partners did not exist. They are now correctly displayed as blank.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2015 Build 150924 (Sep 25, 2015)

  • Fixed: Validation of Event Dates could cause an Unexpected Program Error with some poorly formatted dates.
  • Fixed: Image files referenced on the internet as "https" were previously not being retrieved.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2015 Build 150406 (Apr 7, 2015)

  • Fixed: The program title bar showed The Complete Genealogy Builder 2012 instead of The Complete Genealogy Builder 2015
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2015 Build 150403 (Apr 6, 2015)

  • Maintenance release incorporating changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2015 Build 150329 (Apr 6, 2015)

  • New: Control key shortcuts for Open Project (Ctrl+O), New Project (Ctrl+N), Save Project (Ctrl+S), and Exit (Ctrl+Q).
  • New: A new item under the Tools menu which will adjust the order of children within families where the order of the children recorded in the project is inconsistent with the order of their birth dates.
  • New: A new item under the Tools menu which will adjust the order of partners of individuals where the order of the partners recorded in the project is inconsistent with the order of their marriage dates.
  • Incorporates Version 2015 improvements to the reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2013 Build 140913 (Sep 13, 2014)

  • Maintenance release incorporating changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2013 Build 140826 (Sep 1, 2014)

  • Fixed: Source Notes being incorrectly reported by the Reporter module following a project rebuild.
  • Fixed: The "Enter" key will now add a new line in the Text item of a Source form instead being handled as "OK" and exiting the form.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module;

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2013 Build 140314 (Mar 14, 2014)

  • Maintenance release incorporating changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2013 Build 131126 (Nov 27, 2013)

  • Fixed: Situations affecting a few users whereby the reporter module would crash with a "not working" windows message when starting a PDF report.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2013 Build 131023 (Nov 13, 2013)

  • Maintenance release incorporating changes to reporter module;

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2013 Build 130719 (Jul 22, 2013)

  • Fixed: Unexpected program error when editing dates which contain a qualifier (e.g. Estimated).
  • Fixed: German translation of Marriage Bann in Events selection.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2013 Build 130702 (Jul 2, 2013)

  • Improved: The “Interpret OCCU place as description” import preference now separates the occupation description and place from the PLAC record for Family Tree Builder 2012. (Previously, it separated using the combination format used by FTM 2006. Note that FTM 2008 and 2010 do not require this preference because these versions adhere to the GEDCOM standard.)
  • Improved: BLOB records with no data are now ignored. This avoids Unexpected Program Errors when loading GEDCOM files exported by Ahnen-Chronik (German genealogy program) which erroneously contain spurious BLOB/CONT tags as well as FILE tags.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2013 Build 130503 (May 3, 2013)

  • Maintenance release incorporating changes to reporter module;

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2013 Build 130409 (Apr 9, 2013)

  • Fixed: Some translations in French GUI.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module;

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2013 Build 130227 (Feb 27, 2013)

  • Improved: Avoidance of Unexpected Program Error when loading a corrupt project initialization (.init) file.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module;

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2013 Build 130220 (Feb 20, 2013)

  • Fixed: Unexpected Program Error when importing a UTF-8 GECDOM file created on a Macintosh computer.
  • Improved: Exports with Embedded Objects may now be encoded using the TCGB or GEDCOM methods. (The GEDCOM method is flawed, but is expected by some other programs)

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2013 Build 130211 (Feb 11, 2013)

  • Improved: Very large images are now not cached in order to avoid unexpected program errors.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2013 Build 130121 (Jan 21, 2013)

  • Fixed: Detailed address data not saved when there is no street address (e.g., if only an email or telephone is specified).
  • Fixed: Display of incorrect birth/death years when an invalid date format is used (in which cases the year is now displayed as blank).
  • Improved: Validation process for "Event Date Formats". More recommendations are offered and the list is now multi-select for acceptance of groups of recommendations.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2013 Build 130104 (Jan 4, 2013)

  • Maintenance release incorporating changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2013 Build 121204 (Dec 18, 2012)

  • New: Backup and Restore capabilities. You may create a backup at any time by selecting "Backup Project" from the File menu. Also, automatic backups are made according to the specifications of the "Backup" preferences.
  • New: Datasheets. These are PDF reports which are intended to be used as worksheet forms to complete your research of individuals and families. Datasheets are created via the "Datasheets" menu item according to the preferences defined in the "Datasheets" preferences section
  • New: Tool to convert identical "private" notes into a singularly referenced Library Note record. See "Combine Identical Private Notes to Library"
  • Updated: The Reporter module now uses the new features of The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2013

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2013 Build 121124 (Dec 18, 2012)

  • Fixed: Unexpected program error when attempting to combine identical notes when there are less than two notes in the project data.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2013 Build 121122 (Dec 18, 2012)

  • NEW: German, French and Catalan user interface translations for new features.
  • Fixed: An error in the logic for the new "Combine Identical Private Notes to Library" tool.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2013 Build 121120 (Dec 18, 2012)

  • NEW: Backup and Restore capabilities. You may create a backup at any time by selecting "Backup Project" from the File menu. Also, automatic backups are made according to the specifications of the "Backup" preferences.
  • NEW: Datasheets. These are PDF reports which are intended to be used as worksheet forms to complete your research of individuals and families. Datasheets are created via the "Datasheets" menu item according to the preferences defined in the "Datasheets" preferences section.
  • NEW: "Combine Identical Private Notes to Library" tool to convert identical "private" notes into a singularly referenced Library Note record.
  • Updated: The Reporter module now uses the new features of The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2013.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2013 Build 120929 (Dec 18, 2012)

  • Maintenance release incorporating changes to reporter module; see revision history for The Complete Genealogy Reporter.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2012 Build 120922 (Sep 24, 2012)

  • IMPROVED: Protection to ensure that AutoSave is not performed while the project data is being altered.
  • IMPROVED: The "quick event" buttons (BIRT, CHR, DEAT, BURI in English) in the Events form are now labelled as abbreviations of the event in the language of the user interface.
  • Fixed: For the French user interface, the "quick event" buttons now work correctly for the Events form for an individual.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2012 Build 120910 (Sep 10, 2012)

  • Maintenance release incorporating changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2012 Build 120905 (Sep 10, 2012)

  • Fixed: The "Notes" button for children in the Family Frame was not lworking. It now correctly loads the Child Notes form.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2012 Build 120813 (Aug 13, 2012)

  • Maintenance release incorporating changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2012 Build 120810 (Aug 11, 2012)

  • NEW: Import preference to strip HTML coding from data items. (For example, this coding may be present in Note texts exported by projects managed at MyHeritage.com).
  • IMPROVED: Formatting of GUI captions which contain right-to-left (e.g., Hebrew, Arabic) character sequences.
  • Fixed: Syriac characters in UTF-8 GEDCOM files were not interpreted and displayed correctly.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2012 Build 120801 (Aug 1, 2012)

  • Maintenance release incorporating changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2012 Build 120721 (Jul 21, 2012)

  • IMPROVED: OBJE records in GEDCOM 5.5.1 proposal format are now processed accordingly (e.g., TITL tag data are imported appropriately).

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2012 Build 120708 (Jul 9, 2012)

  • Fixed: Projects containing deleted records could occasionally fail to load.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2012 Build 120626 (Jun 26, 2012)

  • IMPROVED: The non-standard "_DCAUSE" tag exported by Family Tree Builder is now imported as a standard "CAUS" tag subordinate to the preceding "DEAT" tag.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module;

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2012 Build 120602 (Jun 4, 2012)

  • Maintenance release incorporating changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2012 Build 120521 (May 24, 2012)

  • Fixed: The Place Library list is now refreshed when the place of a referenced event is changed via the References list.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2012 Build 120416 (May 24, 2012)

  • Fixed: Possible display problems with TreeView.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2012 Build 120403 (May 24, 2012)

  • Fixed: When importing using "Default Media Folder" the images are now correctly found in the specified folder.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2012 Build 120316 (May 24, 2012)

  • Fixed: Possible Unexpected Program Error during or after merge process.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2012 Build 120313 (May 24, 2012)

  • IMPROVED: Project Rebuild now removes any invalid links between Families and non-existent Individuals, and vice-versa.
  • Fixed: When confidential Individual and Family records are not to be exported, any linkages referencing them are not exported.
  • Fixed: Error in merge process which could result in a project file being saved incorrectly, and therefore inhibiting the project from being opened successfully.
  • Fixed: The GEDCOM forms of confidential Individual and Family records are now always displayed via the View-GEDCOM menu items. (Previously the display would be blank if confidential Individual and Family records are not to be exported.)

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2012 Build 120306 (May 24, 2012)

  • NEW: A custom event (EVEN) may now include a description per the GEDCOM 5.5.1 proposal.
  • Fixed. Unexpected program error when attempting to construct non-existant family name

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2012 Build 120225 (May 24, 2012)

  • Fixed: Screen layout incorrect after resize when TreeView Frame is visible.
  • Fixed: Macintosh ANSI files were not being recognized.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module to report media dates

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2012 Build 120213 (May 24, 2012)

  • Fixed: Merge was not correctly importing the merge ged file in some circumstances.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module regarding large numbers of media items

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2012 Build 120211 (May 24, 2012)

  • IMPROVED: Support for Disgen (the leading Swedish genealogy program). Unmarried family relationship types of "Sambo", "Utom äktenskap" and "Före äktenskap" are converted on import to be custom EVENt TYPEs instead of inappropriate MARR TYPEs. Thus unmarried partners are no longer imported as "married".
  • NEW: "Export for Disgen" menu options which export the above EVENt TYPEs converted to MARR TYPEs so that a ged file transferred from Disgen can be exported back for import into Disgen in Disgen format.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2012 Build 120208 (May 24, 2012)

  • NEW: Media file specifications may now be exported with relative paths (relative to the path of the exported GEDCOM file).

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2012 Build 120207 (May 24, 2012)

  • Fixed: Under some situations, deleting source library or note library records via the use of the Unreferenced Sources and Unreferenced Notes validation capabilities may have resulted in other sources/notes becoming wrongly assigned to the records that reference them.
  • Fixed: Detection of GEDCOM file encoding (Unicode/UTF-8, ANSI). Previously the detection may have been incorrect for certain Windows Locale settings, resulting in an erroneous "does not appear to be a valid GEDCOM file" error message.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2012 Build 120125 (May 24, 2012)

  • NEW: Support for the specification of Dates for Media Items. Although not part of the GEDCOM standard, many leading programs permit dates to be specified for media items and The Complete Genealogy Builder will now import and export these data accordingly.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module to report media dates

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2012 Build 120116 (May 24, 2012)

  • Fixed: Unexpected Program Error when performing Branch Analysis.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2012 Build 120113 (May 24, 2012)

  • IMPROVED: Support for Family Tree Maker 2012. Family Tree Maker now exports OBJE (media) tags albeit with the TITLe data incorrectly leveled. The Complete Genealogy Builder understands this error and compensates for it so that the image title will be imported from a GEDCOM file exported by FTM 2012.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2012 Build 111215 (May 24, 2012)

  • Fixed: Clicking a name column heading of Family List (Main Window) was sorting the other name column.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2012 Build 111213 (Dec 14, 2011)

  • IMPROVED: When importing a unicoded GEDCOM file which does not include a Windows BOM (byte order mark), the assumed ANSI file encoding will be overridden by a "1 CHAR UNICODE" or " 1 CHAR UTF-8" specification in the GEDCOM HEAD record.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2012 Build 111120 (Dec 2, 2011)

  • Maintenance release incorporating changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2012 Beta Build 111114 (Dec 2, 2011)

  • Incorporates changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2012 Beta Build 111106 (Dec 2, 2011)

  • IMPROVED: Imports of GEDCOM files which apply valid individual event / attribute codes to family data will convert these to custom events. (e.g., RESI - which is incorrectly exported by Legacy and RootsMagic as a family event/attribute code.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2012 Beta Build 111103 (Dec 2, 2011)

  • NEW - The TreeView icon is now also at the top of the Individual Frame to display the TreeView Frame showing the selected individual.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2012 Beta Build 111102 (Dec 2, 2011)

  • Further corrections to errors relating to navigation of the TreeView Frame.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2012 Beta Build 111101 (Dec 2, 2011)

  • Corrections to errors relating to navigation of the TreeView Frame.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2012 Beta Build 111031 (Dec 2, 2011)

  • Version 2012 Beta release
  • NEW: A powerful TreeView Frame method of traversing the project as an alternative to using the previous TreeView Form method. (For those users who wish to continue to use the simpler TreeView Form method, this is specified via the updated Interface preferences.)
  • NEW: The Individuals List is now complemented by an alternative Families List. You may switch between the Individuals List and the Families List by clicking the icon shown in the upper right corner of the List Frame
  • NEW: You may now right click on the Events Lists and Grandparent/Grandchild Lists of the Individual and Family Frames to switch to the other view
  • NEW: The color of the Individual Frame is now displayed according to the sex of the individual. This may be de-selected via the updated Interface preferences, in which case the Individual Frame will always be displayed in blue
  • NEW: Operational preference to "Restore Previous Project View" when loading a project. This initializes the Individual, Family and List Frames to those that were last viewed when the project as saved
  • NEW: Operational preference to always "Display TreeView" when loading a project. When not selected, the previous TreeView status is resumed when The Complete Genealogy Builder is started
  • IMPROVED: When the mouse is paused over an entry in the List Frame, in the events list of the Individual Frame, or in the events list of the Family Frame, a tooltip is displayed showing the full text of the entry
  • Changed: The TreeView button (previously between the Husband and Wife names) has been replaced with an icon representing a tree at the top right of the Family Frame title. Updated: The Reporter module now uses the new features of The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2012

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2011 Build 110919 (Dec 2, 2011)

  • Fixed: Occasional errors in maintaining record counts correctly between repeated executions of the Reporter module.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module;

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2011 Build 110915 (Dec 2, 2011)

  • IMPROVED: The integrity of source and note "Referenced by" back-links when changes are canceled. (These links will be recreated automatically the first time this build is run.)
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2011 Build 110902 (Dec 2, 2011)

  • IMPROVED: When a new citation is added, the library source selection form is automatically opened. This saves the unnecessary mouse action to open the form to specify a library source.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2011 Build 110613 (Dec 2, 2011)

  • Fixed: Specification of latitudes and longitudes with N/S/W/E followed by a negative coordinate are now rejected as invalid.
  • Fixed: Saved maps (Google Maps capability) are now named correctly; previously, rounding errors could result in a mismatched filename.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2011 Build 110608 (Dec 2, 2011)

  • Fixed: Changes to a restriction status (Private/Confidential) between successive reports may not have been correctly reflected ion the report.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2011 Build 110605 (Dec 2, 2011)

  • Fixed: Possible incorrect maintenance of "Referenced by" back-links from events. (These links will be recreated automatically the first time this build is run.)
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2011 Build 110504 (Dec 2, 2011)

  • Fixed: The text of "Library" NOTE records not being imported.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2011 Build 110424 (Dec 2, 2011)

  • Fixed: When a reporter module analysis was cancelled, the next use of the reporter might not have re-analyzed all individuals correctly.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module; see revision history for The Complete Genealogy Reporter.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2011 Build 110419 (Dec 2, 2011)

  • Fixed: A further incidence of incorrect maintenance of "Referenced by" back-links when a Source citation is deleted. (These links will be recreated automatically the first time this build is run.)
  • Fixed: The display of preferred images in the main window when one of the original images is smaller then 72x91 pixels.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2011 Build 110410 (Dec 2, 2011)

  • NEW: French user interface.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2011 Build 110408 (Dec 2, 2011)

  • Fixed: Occasional incorrect maintenance of "Referenced by" back-links. (These links will be recreated automatically the first time this build is run.)
  • Fixed: If the reporter module was cancelled before the analysis was complete, the next run might not have performed a complete analysis.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module; see revision history for The Complete Genealogy Reporter.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2011 Build 110401 (Dec 2, 2011)

  • IMPROVED: Nicknames (marked by "*") are now automatically extracted from NAME tags created by Disgen (the leading Sewdish genealogy program).
  • Fixed: The formatting of GEDCOM DATE data pertaining to non-Gregorian dates is now fully standards compliant.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2011 Build 110331 (Dec 2, 2011)

  • NEW: Support of a custom _AFTSUN tag on import, and on export to The Complete Genealogy Builder and My Heritage Family Tree Builder. This may be subordinate to a DATE tag containing a Hebrew date to specify that the event occurred after sunset. The Date form now includes an "After sunset" checkbox and Hebrew-Gregorian date conversions now take account of this.
  • Incorporates changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2011 Build 110321 (Dec 2, 2011)

  • NEW: Import preference to convert combined Citation/Source data (rarely used) into separate Citations and Source records. This is primarily to support users of Geneatique which exports combined Citation/Source data.
  • IMPROVED: OBJE tag structures "hidden" below non-standard "_IMG" tags are now imported for GEDCOM files created by Geneatique.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2011 Build 110315 (Dec 2, 2011)

  • NEW: Validate "Partnership Sexes" identifies families with a female husband and/or male wife.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2011 Build 110307 (Dec 2, 2011)

  • Fixed: Occasional incorrect maintenance of "Referenced by" back-links. (These links will be recreated automatically the first time this build is run.)

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2011 Build 110302 (Dec 2, 2011)

  • Fixed: Occasional incorrect maintenance of "Referenced by" back-links. (These links will be recreated automatically the first time this build is run.)

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2011 Build 110214 (Feb 18, 2011)

  • Maintenance release incorporating changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2011 Build 110207 (Feb 18, 2011)

  • Corrections to the management, import and export of Preserved (unknown) tags.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2011 Build 110130 (Feb 18, 2011)

  • Maintenance release incorporating changes to reporter module

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2011 Build 110128 (Feb 18, 2011)

  • Maintenance release including correction to Encoding option in Export preferences not being saved.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2011 Build 110127 (Feb 18, 2011)

  • Maintenance release including correction to AutoRecovery logic.

New in The Complete Genealogy Builder 2011 Build 110126 (Feb 18, 2011)

  • Maintenance release incorporating changes to reporter module; see revision history for The Complete Genealogy Reporter.