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

Jan 26, 2024
  • Fixed: Missing descriptions in Index of Places under some situations.

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 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 Reporter 2023 Build 230726 (Jul 26, 2023)

  • Fixed: Residence narrative of family information is now correctly translated.
  • Improved: Norwegian report translation.
  • Improved: Very long lines in PDF reports no longer have a continuation "~" attached. This facilitates copy/paste of long URLS.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Fixed: Place descriptions tagged INCLUDE:ALWAYS were often not being included in the Index of Places.
  • Improved: Place descriptions tagged INCLUDE:MATCH were repeated in the Index of Places if an exact match to a reported place existed.

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

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

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

  • 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 Reporter 2018 Build 210310 (Mar 10, 2021)

  • 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 Reporter 2018 Build 210212 (Feb 12, 2021)

  • Fixed: Possessive (s/') formats were not applied correctly in German reports when RTL text support was selected.

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

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

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

  • Fixed: Formatting errors in reports containing right-to-left fonts (e.g. Hebrew).
  • Improved: "Unexpected Program Error" message format.

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

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

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 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 Reporter 2018 Build 200821 (Aug 22, 2020)

  • Fixed: Ancestry Charts omitting parental lines when an individual is repeated on paths and the repeats are of different ancestral generations.
  • Fixed: Citation date was not being reported if the citation text field is blank.
  • Fixed: Alphabetic sortation of media items was occasionally incorrect.

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

  • Fixed: When importing a GEDCOM file defining cutouts in embedded objects, the cutout coordinates could be in error.

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

  • Maintenance release.

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

  • Fixed: Generation subtitles in Unconnected Sections now relate to the subject of the unconnected section.
  • Fixed: "años" was repeated in some age expressions in Spanish reports.
  • Fixed: Layout of Family Trees section. Previously some tree sections could overlap others.
  • Fixed: When the text explaining the Family Trees section is shown at the start of the section (when the Introduction section is excluded from the report) the explanations for multiple marriages and adoptions are included only the exist in the trees.
  • Fixed: Families recorded as "Not Married" in Legacy, using a non-English language, are now reported as partners.
  • Improved: If Webtrees exports a multi-object OBJE record, the first sub-object is now interpreted as the image for the OBJE record.

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

  • Maintenance release incorporating changes to reporter modul

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

  • Fixed: Microsoft Word reports could result in looping or hanging when creating the Index of Individuals.

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

  • Fixed: Finnish reports now correctly include "isä" (father) and "eno" (maternal uncle).
  • Improved: Description and other text files are now appropriately processed as UTF-8 even if there is no BOM. (Compensates for recent Notepad change by Microsoft.)
  • New: Ability to specify that media items are to be shown in the Places of Rest Section - similar to "(Document)" note capability - see "Loading (Media)" preferences.

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

  • Fixed: Unexpected Program Error if incorrectly formatted registration code is entered into the program.
  • Fixed: US English reports now report "marriage license" instead of "marriage licence".

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

  • Fixed: GEDCOM import error in HTML text removal routine which would remove newlines from the text.

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

  • Fixed: Rare pagination error which could result in text spilling over to next page.

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

  • Fixed: FACT tags (GEDCOM 5.5.1) are now included in the report. (Previously they were ignored.)

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

  • Fixed: Incomplete removal of HTML texts (particularly from MyHeritage GEDCOM files),
  • Improved: “Die Hauptperson dieses Berichtes” (instead of “Die Hauptperson dieses berichtes”) in German language reports

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2018 Build 190819 (Aug 19, 2019)

  • Improved: The custom tag "1 _REL Ogift" exported by Genney (Swedish genealogy program) is now imported as indicating that the family partners were unmarried.

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

  • Fixed: When including "all spouses" in descendant charts, some spouses may not have been included in the chart.
  • Improved: Minor corrections to French user interface translations..

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2018 Build 190719 (Jul 19, 2019)

  • Fixed: Error in constructing relationship descriptions for ancestral cousins in Norwegian reports. (Was "tiseks-ganger-tipp-oldefars menning"; now "seks-ganger-tipp-oldefars timenning".)
  • Fixed: Media sections in Word Reports (two images per page) were not accommodating the images and captions within the page height.

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2018 Build 190529 (Jun 29, 2019)

  • Improved: When reporting one photograph per page, the drop down selector now permits user choice regarding whether landscape images are to be rotated. The new options for images per page are One, One (with rotation), Two, Four, Six. (See also build 190527 improvement.)

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

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

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

  • Fixed: Build 170322 broke the improvement implemented in build 161007. The sortations in the Index of Places now correctly list places in hierarchical order, and subordinate events in date order.
  • Improved: In Spanish reports, the superscripted characters "º" and "ª" are now reported instead of "to" and "ta" for ordinal numbers.
  • Improved: When the option to boldface descendants is selected, descendants are now also shown in boldface in the Index of Individuals.

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2018 Build 171122 (Nov 22, 2017)

  • New: Aspect ratio Paper/Display size options (4:3, 16:9, 16:10) to create PDF reports for display on tablet computers.
  • New: Custom Paper/Display size options (width/height).
  • Fixed: All cross-references from media section items to the respective individuals/families/sources are now shown in Text reports.
  • Fixed: Unwanted system characters no longer appear in Text reports.

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

  • Improved: Sortation of individuals in narrative sections to improve the sequence of the report when multiple marriages exist for individuals.

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

  • Fixed: Numerous unpredictable formatting errors in Microsoft Word reports created with more recent versions of Microsoft Word. Word is now closed and restarted between section files.
  • Fixed: Microsoft Word reports now comply with the specified top and bottom margin preference settings.
  • Improved: Dutch verb tense for occupation narratives (werd/was).
  • Improved: Events listed in the indexes for the same individual/family for the same date now appear in logical order. Previously death could precede birth, for example.

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2015 Build 150924 (Sep 24, 2015)

  • Fixed: HTML reports were showing an ancestor chart reference in the Contents section to a chart that does not exist in the report. (This occurred if there was a paternal chart but not a maternal chart, or vice-versa.)
  • Fixed: Image files referenced on the internet as "https" were previously not being retrieved.
  • Improved: Tabs in texts are now converted to seven spaces in HTML reports. (The HTML protocol ignores tab characters.)

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2015 Build 150605 (Jun 5, 2015)

  • Fixed: Unexpected Program Error when attempting to line break a long narrative section title which contains no spaces after the half-way point.

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2015 Build 150409 (Apr 9, 2015)

  • Fixed: An error whereby the linkages of notes assigned to sources could trigger an Unexpected Program Error when importing a GEDCOM file..

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2015 Build 150406 (Apr 8, 2015)

  • Fixed: An error in Version 2015 whereby events within a place of the Index of Places may not be correctly sorted in date order.

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2015 Build 150403 (Apr 8, 2015)

  • Fixed: An error in Version 2015 whereby only one event was reported per place in the Index of Places.

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2015 Build 150329 (Apr 8, 2015)

  • New: Control key shortcuts for Open GEDCOM File (Ctrl+O) and Exit (Ctrl+Q).
  • New: The ability to specify addition spacing before each of the main segments (Media references, Notes, Citations, Family details) of a narrative entry.
  • New: The ability to restrict the Index of Places, Index of Dates and Index of anniversaries to include only Births and Deaths, or only Births, Marriages and Deaths.
  • New: The ability to insert descriptions in the Index of Places for places that do not specifically appear in the data.
  • Improved: The hierarchical order of the Index of Places has been improved such that "France" will now appear before "France, Paris", which will appear before "France, Paris, Montmartre".
  • Improved: For media items are assigned only to sources, these will appear in the same order as the sources appear in the Sources section.
  • Improved: The specification of the width of thumbnail images previously provided a selection from 0.25 inches to 2 inches in 0.25 inch increments. This is now 0.2 inches to 2 inches in 0.1 inch increments.

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2013 Build 150108 (Jan 8, 2015)

  • Fixed: When the analysis is generation limited, spouses of the last reported generation were not appearing in the Descendants Chart..
  • Improved: Translations for German reports.

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2013 Build 141128 (Nov 28, 2014)

  • Fixed: "Suppress repetition of individual's name" was not suppressing the name for death events.
  • Improved: Translations for German and Portuguese (Brazil) reports.

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2013 Build 141125 (Nov 25, 2014)

  • Fixed: Half-sibling relationships were not being counted as blood-relations which resulted in issues where reports were restricted to exclude marriage relationships.
  • Fixed: The relationships for some marriages between relations were reported incorrectly.
  • Improved: In Spanish reports, "Ver Nota xxx" is now narrated instead of "Nota xxx se aplica".

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

  • Fixed: Inappropriate additional new line being included in Notes in some circumstances.
  • Improved: The left margin indentations in some index lists have been reduced to improve consistency.
  • Improved: In narrative sections, long child lists which split across two pages now waste less space.

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

  • Fixed: Unnecessary period being added to some texts which already end with a period.
  • Fixed: Formatting errors that could occur when sections are reordered via Section Control.
  • Fixed: Notes assigned to Sources being referenced with a hyperlink to a non-existent Notes section entry instead of showing the text of the Note in the Sources section.

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2013 Build 140606 (Jun 6, 2014)

  • Fixed: The translations for "From" and "To" (dates) were absent for a number of languages, resulting in no qualifier being reported. This affected reports created in Catalan, Danish, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian and Portuguese. These qualifiers are now translated and reported correctly.
  • Improved: URL references to image files in GEDCOM files created by Ancestry.com are now ignored because these incorrectly reference a web page, not the remotely stored image file. This avoids the very slow loading of such GEDCOM files.

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2013 Build 140318 (Mar 19, 2014)

  • Fixed: Unexpected program error could occur when creating an Associated Individuals section of the report.

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

  • Fixed: Structural and hyperlinking errors affecting the unconnected and associated sections of HTML reports.

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

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

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

  • Improved: Maximum number of ancestral generations increased fro 180 to 200.
  • Fixed: Hyperlinking errors which were linking to maternal ancestry sections instead of to maps.
  • Fixed: In certain situations the round-up logic could cause an unexpected program error.

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 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 Reporter 2013 Build 130620 (Jun 20, 2013)

  • Fixed: Dates expressed as "BET xxx AND yyy" are now correctly narrated. (In recent releases, "Between" has not been output in some instances.)
  • Improved: French first-of-the-month dates are now expressed as "1er".

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2013 Build 130601 (Jun 1, 2013)

  • Fixed: Logic error in formatting RTL (right-to-left) text sequences which could also cause an unexpected program error.

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

  • Improved: Norwegian reports now report upwardly removed cousins as, for example, parent's second cousin instead of third cousin's parent. (This improves clarity when there is no third cousin.)

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

  • NEW: The Descendants section may now be formatted as a continuous list as an alternative to a chart with continuation sections. See "Report Detail" preferences.
  • Fixed: Generation sub-headings in Norwegian reports.

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

  • Improved: Layout of Family Trees section to avoid overlapping trees - particularly on small paper sizes.

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

  • Fixed: Unexpected Program Error when importing a UTF-8 GEDCOM file created on a Macintosh computer.

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

  • Improved: French, Norwegian, and Danish translations.

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

  • 21 January, 2013 - Fixed: Overlapping texts in Front Page layout when Landscape report format is specified.
  • Improved: Minimize button is now included in the top right of the main window.
  • Improved: Date parser will now appropriately interpret dates expressed as, for example, "1877-4-17".

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2013 Build 130113 (Jan 14, 2013)

  • Fixed: Distorted thumbnail images in Microsoft Word reports (incorrect aspect ratio).

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2013 Build 130107 (Jan 7, 2013)

  • Fixed: Spurious "?" characters in ANSI-encoded HTML reports.
  • Improved: Alignment of sequence numbers and texts in narrative sections of HTML reports when viewed with the Mozilla Firefox browser.
  • Improved: Formatting of Notes section (removal of unnecessary newline when note ends with period; addition of final period when missing from note text.

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

  • Fixed: Media items not being combined into single report item when the same file names are used in different folder paths.
  • Fixed: Error in Catalan translation (TCGR was narrating Rebesta instead of Rebestieta, Rebesle instead of Rebesoncle).
  • Improved: French translations of ex-wife/ex-husband and step-grandparent.

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

  • Fixed: French grammar (Grand-Tante).

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

  • Fixed: French grammar when there are adopted children in a single parent family.
  • Fixed: Unexpected program error when attempting to combine identical notes when there are less than two notes in the project data.

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

  • NEW: German, French and Catalan user interface translations for new "combine identical notes" preference.
  • Fixed: An error in the logic for combining identical notes into a single record.

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

  • NEW: Additional A3, A5 and US Legal paper sizes for PDF and DOC reports. See "PDF/DOC Reports" preferences.
  • NEW: Preference option to combine identical notes into a single record. This avoids multiple repeats of the same image in the media sections when each instance of the image is associated with a note of identical text.. See "Loading (Adjust)" preferences.
  • IMPROVED: The "PDF Engine" preference option has been removed. All reports are now produced by the previous "Multilingual" engine which supports all TrueType fonts. There are preference options to support multi-font reports and reports which contain right-to-left texts (e.g., Hebrew and Arabic). See "PDF Reports" preferences.

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

  • IMPROVED: Some corrections to French language translations.
  • IMPROVED: Event TYPEs are now narrated for ENGAngement, MARRiage, DIVorce and ANnULment family events.
  • Fixed: Formatting and linking errors in section description files including external hyperlinks (PDF and HTML reports).

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2013 Build 120922 (Dec 18, 2012)

  • IMPROVED: Custom sections including external hyperlinks now operate the links in Microsoft Word reports.
  • IMPROVED: Spanish report translation of "when aged respectively".
  • Fixed: Formatting and linking errors in custom sections including external hyperlinks (PDF and HTML reports).
  • Fixed: A slight misalignment of the sequence numbers and narrative texts in Microsoft Word Reports was causing thumbnails to be mispositioned

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2013 Build 120916 (Dec 18, 2012)

  • NEW: "Include RIN codes" option in the Report Detail preferences. This is primarily to assist users of MyHeritage Family Tree Builder to correlate individuals in the report with the ID reference numbers in the Family Tree Builder project.
  • IMPROVED: Sortation of individuals in narrative sections to improve the sequence of the report when multiple marriages exist for individuals.
  • Fixed: Swedish reports now subtitle descendant generations correctly ("Generationen av Barnbarns Barn", etc.)

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2013 Build 120910 (Dec 18, 2012)

  • Fixed: Norwegian reports including ages which are user-specified now correctly narrate "xx år gammel" instead of "gammel xx år"

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2012 Build 120929 (Sep 29, 2012)

  • IMPROVED: Some corrections to French language translations.
  • IMPROVED: Event TYPEs are now narrated for ENGAngement, MARRiage, DIVorce and ANnULment family events..
  • Fixed: Formatting and linking errors in section description files including external hyperlinks (PDF and HTML reports).

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2012 Build 120922 (Sep 29, 2012)

  • IMPROVED: Custom sections including external hyperlinks now operate the links in Microsoft Word reports.
  • IMPROVED: Spanish report translation of "when aged respectively".
  • Fixed: Formatting and linking errors in custom sections including external hyperlinks (PDF and HTML reports).
  • Fixed: A slight misalignment of the sequence numbers and narrative texts in Microsoft Word Reports was causing thumbnails to be mispositioned.

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2012 Build 120916 (Sep 17, 2012)

  • NEW: "Include RIN codes" option in the Report Detail preferences. This is primarily to assist users of MyHeritage Family Tree Builder to correlate individuals in the report with the ID reference numbers in the Family Tree Builder project.
  • IMPROVED: Sortation of individuals in narrative sections to improve the sequence of the report when multiple marriages exist for individuals.
  • Fixed: Swedish reports now subtitle descendant generations correctly ("Generationen av Barnbarns Barn", etc.)

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

  • Fixed: Norwegian reports including ages which are user-specified now correctly narrate "xx år gammel" instead of "gammel xx år"

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

  • IMPROVED: Some corrections to French language translations.
  • IMPROVED: More correctly formed Portuguese cousin relationships.
  • IMPROVED: Slovak language translations (better narrative forms).
  • IMPROVED: Handling of non-standard data descriptions with event tags and event TYPEs.
  • Fixed: Data detail missing from attribute events (e.g., SSN, Number of children, etc.).
  • Fixed: "0 AD" was appearing in indexes as birth/death year when a day/month is specified, but not a year.

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

  • Fixed: Spurious Unicode characters in PDF reports.

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 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: Reporting formatting of texts containing right-to-left (e.g., Hebrew, Arabic) character sequences.
  • IMPROVED: French and Belgian language translations.
  • Fixed: Syriac characters in UTF-8 GEDCOM files were not interpreted and displayed correctly.

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

  • IMPROVED: Dates for undated items in the indexes of occupations, places and causes of death are now broadly estimated from date of birth/date of death if known. This produces a more appropriate chronological order of items within these indexes.
  • IMPROVED: Alphanumeric strings are now sorted using "logical" sort on systems using Windows XP or later. This means that "11th Earl" is sorted after "2nd Earl", for example.
  • IMPROVED: Occupation descriptions starting with a digit do not now have "a/an" added in the narrative. For example "He became a plumber", "He became 2nd Earl".

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 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 Reporter 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.
  • IMPROVED: If an event tag that should not contain data (except Y or N) contains other data, the data will be considered to be TYPE data if no TYPE tag follows the event tag.

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

  • Fixed: The distances of Norwegian removed cousins are now reported correctly. (Includes GedPad build 120602)

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2012 Build 120601 (Jun 4, 2012)

  • IMPROVED: A new "Languages" preference now permits Norwegian reports to show "second cousin" as either "Andre Søskenbarn" or "Tremenning". (The selected method is extended to all cousin distances.)

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

  • Fixed: Inconsistencies when applying "Emphasize Nicknames" to the subject's name in page headings.

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2012 Build 120502 (May 24, 2012)

  • Fixed: HTML encoding issues relating to "src" references of image files which caused the images not to be shown in the browser..
  • Fixed: "Waiting for Wordpad" message not disappearing after Wordpad exit.

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2012 Build 120424 (May 24, 2012)

  • Fixed: Hyperlinked reports were not including active hyperlinks from media sections to narrative sections when "cross-references in brackets" was selected. This option now applies to non-hyperlinked reports only.
  • Fixed: Spanish translation error (now "Lugar de Descanso" instead of "Lugare de Descanso").

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2012 Build 120423 (May 24, 2012)

  • Fixed: Spanish translation error (now "imagen" instead of "imágen").
  • Fixed: Dutch translation errors relating to neef/nicht (depending on the Languages preferences settings for these expressions).

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

  • Fixed: An issue when more than two media items share the same image file and title and appear in two sections (e.g. Places of Rest and Photographs). Previously it was possible that the image may be repeated in one of the sections.

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2012 Build 120407 (May 24, 2012)

  • Fixed: An issue when more than one media item share the same image file and title, but have different Notes/Sources attached. TCGR now reports these separately in the Media Section instead of combining them into one image entry.

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

  • Fixed: Grammar in PDF Bookmarks tree of German reports (now "Indirekte Beziehungen" instead of "Indirekte beziehungen").
  • Fixed: When importing using "Default Media Folder" the images are now correctly found in the specified folder.

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2012 Build 120329 (May 24, 2012)

  • Fixed: Errors in structure of Descendants Chart when all spouses/partners are included.
  • Fixed: In French reports Associée (instead of Associé) is narrated if the association relates to a female.

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2012 Build 120314 (May 24, 2012)

  • IMPROVED: Microsoft Word reports now force left-to-right layout formats. This corrects unusual layout issues that previously occurred when the Windows and/or Word language settings specify a right-to-left language, such as Hebrew.

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2012 Build 120310 (May 24, 2012)

  • IMPROVED: All spouses/partners (including those who did not contribute descendants) may now be included in the Descendants Chart section.

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2012 Build 120308 (May 24, 2012)

  • Fixed: "UNKNOWN" appearing in Family Tree Chart Names when reporting with upper case last names when blank last names have been requested to be shown as such.
  • IMPROVED: Layout and readability of long first names in Family Tree boxes when there is no last name.

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

  • Fixed: New "Person Filter" not working correctly with full names.
  • Fixed: Long text selection (sources/notes) was not calculating correctly per the selected value.
  • Fixed: Macintosh ANSI files were not being recognized.
  • This release incorporates changes to GedPad Pro

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2012 Build 120223 (May 24, 2012)

  • IMPROVED: The "Last Name Filter" for custom sections is now named the "Person Filter" and may contain last names, full names, or INDI codes.
  • IMPROVED: Minor language changes to Swedish reports.
  • Fixed: Long Media titles containing no spaces are now appropriately "word wrapped" by being broken into separate lines

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2012 Build 120221 (May 24, 2012)

  • IMPROVED: Narration of dates recorded as "FROM xxxx" are now reported as "from ..." instead of "after ...".

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

  • Fixed: Unexpected Program Error when the number of media items exceeds 32,000.

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

  • IMPROVED: Support for Disgen (the leading Swedish genealogy program). Unmarried family relationship types are converted on import to be custom EVENt TYPEs instead of inappropriate MARR TYPEs. Thus unmarried partners are no longer reported as "married".

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

  • 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 Reporter 2012 Build 120203 (May 24, 2012)

  • NEW: Reports may now be produced in landscape format. See "PDF/DOC Reports" preferences.
  • Fixed: Font sizing error after new pages when producing a PDF report without page headings using the multilingual engine

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

  • NEW: Support for non-standard "_DATE" tags used by many leading programs to specify dates for media items. The dates may be included as part of the image descriptions in the Media sections - see Media Layout preferences.

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2012 Build 120123 (May 24, 2012)

  • NEW: Media may now be reported in alphabetical order of title - See Media Layout preferences. (The default remains the order in which they are referenced in the narrative sections.)
  • Changed: The Media preferences section is now divided into Media Reporting and Media Layout sections.

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

  • Fixed: Possible omission of the first page of Paternal and/or Maternal Ancestry Chart.

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 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 Reporter 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 Reporter 2012 Build 120112 (May 24, 2012)

  • Fixed: Unexpected program error when processing French Republican dates.

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2012 Build 120106 (May 24, 2012)

  • Fixed: Possible connection analysis failure when data contains adoptions.

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2012 Build 120102 (May 24, 2012)

  • IMPROVED: Reporting of adoptions when only one parent is the adopter.
  • IMPROVED: Date annotations of event notes and source citations (now full date instead of year only).

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2012 Build 111221 (May 24, 2012)

  • Fixed: Formatting and hyperlinking errors of places including latitude / longitude coordinates when Index of Places is part of the report.

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

  • IMPROVED: Ahnentafel/d'Aboville codes now include family number designators for clarity in cases of multiple families. In such cases, the family number is denoted by a, b, c, etc.; thus the first child of a first marriage is reported as 232.1a and the first child of a second marriage is reported as 232.1b.

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

  • IMPROVED: Punctuation of sentences ending with an abbreviation of a place, name, or date (e.g., U.S.A., Jr., B.C.)
  • Additional periods are now never added

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2010 Build 100131 (Feb 1, 2010)

  • NEW: Microsoft Word output.
  • NEW: Multiple Volume reports, including a separate file for each volume.
  • NEW: Watermarks.
  • NEW; Cross-referencing (with hyperlinking) from Direct Relations section to Ancestry/Descendant charts.
  • NEW: Media files with internet file specifications (http and ftp URLs).
  • NEW: Numerous new preference options in response to customer requests.
  • IMPROVED: Support for Family Historian GEDCOM files.

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2009 Build 90706 (Jul 16, 2009)

  • IMPROVED: GEDCOM dates expressed as "from ... to" are now narrated as such, instead of as "between... and", for German reports. (If appropriate, this change will be made to other languages upon request; see also build 80710 history.)

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2009 Build 90618 (Jun 28, 2009)

  • Fixed: Logic errors in the Analysis routines which could result in failure to connect some individuals, particularly when the GEDCOM data includes one or more private individuals

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2009 Build 90613 (Jun 28, 2009)

  • IMPROVED: Family Tree Builder private notes (_PRIV tag) are now imported as private texts subject to the Import preferences

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2009 Build 90605 (Jun 28, 2009)

  • IMPROVED: Catalan language translation

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2009 Build 90530 (Jun 2, 2009)

  • NEW: Processing of sub-field elements of DSCR (description) tags as formatted by MyHeritage Family Tree Builder. The sub-tag names (height, weight, etc.) are translated accordingly for the various supported languages. (Users of other programs may format their DSCR data in the same manner to take advantage of this capability - as described in the Help for Loading (Adjust) preferences.

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2009 Build 90513 (May 17, 2009)

  • NEW: French (Belgium) language translation. This differs from French in the translation of numbers in the ranges 70-79 and 90-99.
  • Fixed: Word spacing errors with some Unicode character sets (e.g., Japanese and Chinese).

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2008.1 Build 70207 (Feb 7, 2008)

  • NEW: HTML reports with frames (an additional option for report output). This format produces a contents list on the left. The appearance and ease of navigation therefore mirrors that of a PDF report. Most modern browsers support frames.
  • Fixed: Possible page numbering errors within Custom Sections.
  • Fixed: Contents page when Custom Sections are included in an HTML report.
  • Fixed: FONTSIZE commands now work correctly for custom preface sections (those placed before the Introduction section).

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2008 Build 70808 (Aug 9, 2007)

  • NEW: Cleaner two-panel, three-step process. The selections removed from the previous four Wizard panels all now appear as the new Analysis, Report Scope & Order, and Book Format option sections.
  • NEW: The font for the contents of tree boxes may now be separately specified. (The sans-serif Arial font may be clearer for tree box texts, even when the report is produced in Times New Roman.)
  • NEW: Enhanced counter panels. Data Input counts are on the left; Data Analysis counts are on the right.
  • NEW: Report Conventions option to specify date era annotation as BC and AD, or BCE and CE. AD/CE is now added to years less than 100.
  • NEW: The "INT" (interpreted) date format is now supported per the GEDCOM 5.5 standard.
  • NEW: Beta-versions of Dutch, French, Spanish and Swedish reports. (The translations for these are not yet complete, volunteers are always welcome!)
  • NEW: (For Family Tree Builder users.) When the registered full version is run to create a Book Report from within Family Tree Builder, the Data Input and Analysis processes are executed automatically. New "General" options may be selected to suppress this behavior.
  • IMPROVED: Limits on spouses (25), parent families (10), and children (30) have been removed. All spouses, parent families and children are now reported. (Only the first 15 children are shown in family trees, as before).
  • IMPROVED: Some text narrations, particularly to clarify language translations.
  • IMPROVED: "sons" or "daughters" is now reported instead of "children" when all children are of the same sex.
  • IMPROVED: The texts of buttons (Contents, Index, etc.) in HTML reports are now shown in the report language.
  • IMPROVED: Alphabetic sortations are now accent independent. (e.g., � is sorted between E and F)
  • IMPROVED: Performance enhancements have been applied to a number of sub-processes.
  • IMPROVED: Date and place for ADOP (adoption/fostering) data are now reported

New in The Complete Genealogy Reporter 2007.4 Build 70621 (Jun 22, 2007)

  • NEW: The report language is now selectable at Step 4. English (US), English (UK) and German are currently supported alternatives. (UK English reports "...ise" instead of "...ize", and US English reports "James' father" instead of "James's father.) French and other languages will be added according to demand and the availability of translation testers volunteering their services.
  • NEW: An additional method of document classification. If a media object has a NOTE sub-tag starting with "(Document)", and if the corresponding new "Loading" option is selected, such media will be reported in the Documents section.
  • IMPROVED: DATA tags with subordinate TEXT data are now processed as TEXT tags. (Previously such texts were ignored.)
  • Fixed: Events are now sorted by date correctly.
  • Fixed: Spurious placeholder images no longer appear when invalid/missing image media are to be ignored.
  • Fixed: Notes/Sources are now correctly omitted from the Media sections if Notes/Sources are not selected for inclusion in the report.
  • Fixed: Cross-referencing from Note/Source to Place of Rest item.
  • Fixed: Italic texts which cross a page boundary are now correctly italicized on the next page.