FinFamily Changelog

What's new in FinFamily 1275 Beta

Jan 26, 2017
  • Fixed small GEDCOM import import problem in certain case
  • Added some missing translations
  • Usability changes to report dialog
  • Fixed importing ALIA tag from SukuJutut GEDCOM file
  • Fixed text notices name and place lists to work with H2 database

New in FinFamily 1260 Beta (Jun 9, 2016)

  • Changed old links.
  • Added new Timeline function.

New in FinFamily 1253 Beta (Feb 1, 2016)

  • Fixed setting translations in language dialog.
  • Adding new person to H2 database didn't worked after importing backup

New in FinFamily 1247 Beta (Jan 12, 2016)

  • Added possibility to use file based H2 database.
  • Technical fixes and changes.

New in FinFamily 1237 Beta (Dec 29, 2015)

  • Look and feel changes to person main panel when Linux is used. Components doesn't overlap anymore.
  • Fixes and changes to map when OpenStreet maps are used.
  • Updated components.

New in FinFamily 1233 Beta (Dec 29, 2015)

  • Default Java version is 1.7.
  • Some menu functions should be unable when database is not usable.
  • Fix for Graphviz reports. Result folder works now.
  • Added translation to Reports view
  • New statistics: Common death causes
  • Technical fixes and changes

New in FinFamily 1220 Beta (Dec 22, 2014)

  • Fixes to Gedcom import/export
  • Technical fixes and changes

New in FinFamily 1214 Beta (Mar 11, 2014)

  • Places list is shown now in reports
  • Possibility to search using village, farm and croft.
  • Fixed roman numbering in ancestor and descendant reports
  • Firstmale report doesn't worked correctly
  • Descendant reports didn't worked correctly when there was repetitions
  • Possibility to add birth and death village, farm and croft to result set in search window.
  • Added tooltip to search window notice exist field
  • Comment is now an independent sentence in descendant reports.
  • The jurisdictional name of the place where the event took place changed in Gedcom export and import. Jurisdictions are separated by commas, for example, "Cove, Cache, Utah, USA" and ("_CROFT, _FARM, _VILLAGE, PLAC"). Import still supports old looking Gedcoms where _CROFT, _FARM, _VILLAGE and PLAC are in separate lines.
  • Croft, farm and village in family tree.
  • Technical fixes and changes

New in FinFamily 1182 Beta (Mar 11, 2014)

  • Fixes to search group

New in FinFamily 1177 Beta (Mar 11, 2014)

  • Fix to gedcom with missing source record. recover after bad character encoding
  • Fixed language bug that prevented marriage info editing

New in FinFamily 1174 Beta (Mar 11, 2014)

  • Added missing German texts
  • Improved image management of gedcom
  • Enabled gender specific Tag names (e.g. né and nèe)
  • iz call (except .scg files)

New in FinFamily 1167 Beta (Mar 11, 2014)

  • Spanish included in main language file
  • All languages texts joined to FinFamily.xls (TypesExcel.xls removed from distribution)
  • Show tags it types for selected language does not exist
  • Delete of gv-file after successfull graphviz call (except .scg files)

New in FinFamily 1166 Beta (Mar 11, 2014)

  • Alternative location for texts added to Settings dialog
  • Improvement to alternative version with Spanish texts

New in FinFamily 1182 Alpha (Mar 4, 2011)

  • Fixes to search group

New in FinFamily 1174 Alpha (Feb 22, 2011)

  • Added missing German texts
  • Improved image management of gedcom
  • Enabled gender specific Tag names (e.g. né and nèe)

New in FinFamily 1167 Alpha (Feb 17, 2011)

  • Spanish included in main language file
  • All languages texts joined to FinFamily.xls (TypesExcel.xls removed from distribution)
  • Show tags it types for selected language does not exist
  • Delete of gv-file after successfull graphviz call (except .scg files)

New in FinFamily 1166 Alpha (Feb 16, 2011)

  • Alternative location for texts added to Settings dialog
  • Improvement to alternative version with Spanish texts

New in FinFamily 1160 Alpha (Feb 15, 2011)

  • Spanish texts removed. Not ready to publish yet

New in FinFamily 1150 Alpha (Feb 14, 2011)

  • ImageMagick / non windows fix
  • Added / after surname in gedcom export

New in FinFamily 1146 Alpha (Feb 11, 2011)

  • Added ImageMagick support
  • Added Show relationship command to ancestor reports
  • Automated use of Graphviz

New in FinFamily 1141 Alpha (Feb 10, 2011)

  • Added Hybrid kontroller

New in FinFamily 1137 Alpha (Feb 7, 2011)

  • Image scaling implemented to Graphviz report

New in FinFamily 1126 Alpha (Feb 4, 2011)

  • Modified format of marriage data in report

New in FinFamily 1120 Alpha (Feb 3, 2011)

  • Modified format of marriage data in report

New in FinFamily 1115 Alpha (Feb 2, 2011)

  • Modified format of marriage data in report

New in FinFamily 1100 Alpha (Jan 29, 2011)

  • Transaction implemented to person update
  • Fixed error with delete notice

New in FinFamily 1095 Alpha (Jan 28, 2011)

  • Transaction implemented to person update
  • Fixed error with delete notice

New in FinFamily 1088 Alpha (Jan 27, 2011)

  • Fix to backup store

New in FinFamily 1084 Alpha (Jan 24, 2011)

  • Program structural changes

New in FinFamily 1076 Alpha (Jan 21, 2011)

  • WebStart smoketested with several features

New in FinFamily 1068 Alpha (Jan 20, 2011)

  • Implemented webstart feature - editing, restore and gedcom import smoketested

New in FinFamily 1067 Alpha (Jan 20, 2011)

  • Implemented webstart feature - editing, restore and gedcom import smoketested

New in FinFamily 1056 Alpha (Jan 17, 2011)

  • Added logging to version test
  • Fix to ancestor report nameindex to include only selected ancestors
  • Fix to search algorithm to use also modified date

New in FinFamily 1045 Alpha (Jan 14, 2011)

  • hyperlinks to both ancestor and descendant report now implemented

New in FinFamily 1041 Alpha (Jan 12, 2011)

  • Added links to html descendant report
  • Add state and country to MainPerson fields

New in FinFamily 1035 Alpha (Jan 8, 2011)

  • Fix to connect routine. if not schema selected or cancel pressed then not connected
  • Display village,farm and croft in parsom main page

New in FinFamily 1033 Alpha (Jan 4, 2011)

  • Fixes to name index
  • Added insert of name index to selected view

New in FinFamily 1024 Alpha (Jan 3, 2011)

  • Fixes to name index
  • bold also for names inside text
  • changed to use jdbc driver 9.0

New in FinFamily 1020 Alpha (Dec 30, 2010)

  • Fixes to name index
  • bold also for names inside text
  • changed to use jdbc driver 9.0

New in FinFamily 1015 Alpha (Dec 29, 2010)

  • Fixed problem with report language
  • Update nameindex in excel to same as in word
  • Fixed problem with printing of parent of adopted child

New in FinFamily 1010 Alpha (Dec 28, 2010)

  • fix to reference to parent in descendant report
  • report formatting fixes. r
  • fixed checking of sex of parent when generating childs parents

New in FinFamily 996 Alpha (Dec 21, 2010)

  • Added reference to other parent in descendant report
  • Added Refn and group to report after generation

New in FinFamily 996 Alpha (Dec 21, 2010)

  • Added reference to other parent in descendant report
  • Added Refn and group to report after generation

New in FinFamily 992 Alpha (Dec 20, 2010)

  • Added name index to descendant text report

New in FinFamily 985 Alpha (Dec 18, 2010)

  • Minor text change

New in FinFamily 983 Alpha (Dec 17, 2010)

  • Added notifier when newer version exist on server

New in FinFamily 979 Alpha (Dec 14, 2010)

  • fix to malefirst order in descendant report
  • throw exception if image entered that is not supported by java imaging

New in FinFamily 976 Alpha (Dec 10, 2010)

  • Added image scaling to word report images

New in FinFamily 971 Alpha (Dec 7, 2010)

  • gedcom import with empty occu tag fixed
  • Image manager modified
  • close person view prior to opening settings dialog

New in FinFamily 967 Alpha (Dec 6, 2010)

  • Formatted state and country display
  • Changed privacy checkbox to drop down with 3 alternatives in mainperson

New in FinFamily 963 Alpha (Dec 2, 2010)

  • modifications to family tree
  • fix to restore of refn
  • Show N N for person that has privacy set

New in FinFamily 956 Alpha (Dec 1, 2010)

  • Completed French version (using partially Google translator)
  • Privacy on person to display as N N on report
  • Date period gui fixed

New in FinFamily 950 Alpha (Nov 29, 2010)

  • fixed and added additional names to report index

New in FinFamily 943 Alpha (Nov 23, 2010)

  • removed add and delete notice button from noticepane, Added delete notice to toolbat

New in FinFamily 941 Alpha (Nov 19, 2010)

  • Fixed restore backup for state, village, farm and croft
  • Fixed backup for relation notice 2nd date part
  • Fixed restore for relation notice source

New in FinFamily 938 Alpha (Nov 18, 2010)

  • References in descendant report reworked

New in FinFamily 936 Alpha (Nov 16, 2010)

  • Image size info to Notice pane added
  • Improvements to see also references for descendant report

New in FinFamily 930 Alpha (Nov 11, 2010)

  • sorting db window fix
  • hiski import fixes

New in FinFamily 925 Alpha (Nov 10, 2010)

  • bugfixes to hiski haudatut and kastetut import
  • fix of double names in database view

New in FinFamily 922 Alpha (Nov 8, 2010)

  • Added check to prevent update of identical consecutive names
  • or occupations. Possibly an unresolved bug may create such
  • Fixed bug with view manager

New in FinFamily 918 Alpha (Oct 30, 2010)

  • Modified relatives lines in FamilyPanel
  • Added email (@) from RESI tag to descendant lista
  • Bugfixes

New in FinFamily 910 Alpha (Oct 21, 2010)

  • Special handling added for Name types / and (
  • Added list report for images

New in FinFamily 903 Alpha (Oct 20, 2010)

  • Gay marriages possibility added
  • Bug fixes

New in FinFamily 895 Alpha (Oct 18, 2010)

  • Improvements of managing of relative notices
  • Fixes to needle manager
  • DropDown menu fix
  • Added sql function to tools

New in FinFamily 870 Alpha (Oct 13, 2010)

  • Usability changes to menu and dialogs
  • Refactoring of hiski import

New in FinFamily 850 Alpha (Oct 11, 2010)

  • Hiski pane opening/closing refactored
  • Delete person command added to drop down menu

New in FinFamily 846 Alpha (Oct 7, 2010)

  • Hiski import refactored
  • Some statistics added

New in FinFamily 840 Alpha (Oct 5, 2010)

  • Refactored Hiski kastetut and vihityt
  • Added genealogy data statistics

New in FinFamily 830 Alpha (Oct 2, 2010)

  • fixed bug with search criteria

New in FinFamily 824 Alpha (Oct 1, 2010)

  • Refactored Hiski kastetut import

New in FinFamily 820 Alpha (Sep 29, 2010)

  • descendant lista (excel) improvements
  • hiski-import for kastetut designing

New in FinFamily 818 Alpha (Sep 28, 2010)

  • descendant lista (excel) improvements
  • hiski-import for kastetut designing

New in FinFamily 810 Alpha (Sep 25, 2010)

  • Wiki-addresses modified
  • Adjusted report details
  • Reset types list at start of SearchCriteria
  • Ask to overwrite the file at save as
  • Added check before dropping family database (schema)
  • Fixes to needle management
  • Fix to login failure message
  • Gedcom import fixes

New in FinFamily 800 Alpha (Sep 21, 2010)

  • Hiski import fixed to lower surety for notices already existing and ignoring existing relations
  • Report settings for surety to include added
  • Replaced TODO with UNKN (Unknown) that now shows on db-view all persons who have UNKN notices

New in FinFamily 794 Alpha (Sep 20, 2010)

  • reset name and place list after use

New in FinFamily 782 Alpha (Sep 18, 2010)

  • fixed problem that did now accept dates from person main page

New in FinFamily 775 Alpha (Sep 16, 2010)

  • fix to export for suku2004
  • spouse numbering when children outside marriage in family improved

New in FinFamily 772 Alpha (Sep 14, 2010)

  • Ancestor report references fixes
  • Ancestor report spouses added

New in FinFamily 770 Alpha (Sep 13, 2010)

  • Display village, farm and croft in report

New in FinFamily 764 Alpha (Sep 11, 2010)

  • Added code to restore backup directly from zip-file
  • Added parents to subject in descendant report

New in FinFamily 747 Alpha (Sep 8, 2010)

  • Added database view font size to settings
  • Added subject to relatives pane
  • Added report command to drop down menu in relatives pane
  • Fixed some report style issues (Bethrotal, From table text moved after name of subject)

New in FinFamily 735 Alpha (Sep 6, 2010)

  • Bugfixes:
  • To text search and
  • Cancel button in runner dialogs
  • Child spouse numbering

New in FinFamily 714 Alpha (Sep 3, 2010)

  • fixed problems in import from Suku2004
  • Allowing surnames to begin with lower case letter at update.
  • For new surnames the 1st letter is capitalized

New in FinFamily 710 Alpha (Sep 2, 2010)

  • Family notice to use same layout as Table notice
  • Fixed problem with file dialog hiding behind
  • Map location algorithm modified
  • Fix to gedcom import error report
  • Person view field handling fix
  • Address stored incorrectly in backup. Fixed
  • Allow empty line in front of n note ield

New in FinFamily 700 Alpha (Aug 31, 2010)

  • Added option to print all ancestor branches
  • Update family tree and database draft whenever person is changed
  • Modified spouses parents see also printing
  • GUI changed to use RadioButtons for sex instead of combobox
  • Fixes to check when person has changed => not so many unnecessary updates

New in FinFamily 680 Alpha (Aug 20, 2010)

  • Added possibilty to print pictures separately at end of document with links to tables.
  • Pictures are to be organized manually afterwords
  • Added styles to descendant report

New in FinFamily 678 Alpha (Aug 18, 2010)

  • Bugfixes

New in FinFamily 671 Alpha (Aug 16, 2010)

  • Some gedcom fixes regarding FAM record
  • Modifications to relation notice and relation report management

New in FinFamily 666 Alpha (Aug 11, 2010)

  • gedcom import enchanced to intrepret correctly file from another application
  • modified report to ask for index and removed button to write index from dialog
  • fixed problem with logfile location

New in FinFamily 663 Alpha (Aug 10, 2010)

  • gedcom import enchanced to intrepret correctly file from another application
  • modified report to ask for index and removed button to write index from dialog

New in FinFamily 659 Alpha (Aug 10, 2010)

  • Bugfixes to login to database and to bad died dates

New in FinFamily 653 Alpha (Aug 3, 2010)

  • Added code to select location from required country.
  • Some internal code refactoring

New in FinFamily 648 Alpha (Jul 27, 2010)

  • fix to restore backup surety
  • enchanted OpenStreetMaps display

New in FinFamily 635 Alpha (Jul 20, 2010)

  • Added alternative map from OpenStreetMaps service
  • Modified setup page to select map software
  • Modified structure of location data

New in FinFamily 621 Alpha (Jul 8, 2010)

  • Fixed problems with sorting database view

New in FinFamily 618 Alpha (Jul 2, 2010)

  • Added datecontrol to search dialog for update/created dates
  • Added indicator if FamilyTree children have own children or parents also have parents

New in FinFamily 605 Alpha (Jun 30, 2010)

  • Check for existing persons added to import from other database

New in FinFamily 596 Alpha (Jun 17, 2010)

  • Added Import from other database

New in FinFamily 584 Alpha (Jun 7, 2010)

  • Added rest of tables to backup. Fixed bug (from 580) in restore from Suku 2004

New in FinFamily 580 Alpha (Jun 2, 2010)

  • Backup/restore should now function with both FinFamily and Suku 2004 both directions
  • Backup created into zip-file including images. Restore requires UnZip of the file.
  • Create backup still "Under Construction". Possibly speed of backup needs to be improved.

New in FinFamily 569 Alpha (May 27, 2010)

  • Database schema to be names Family database
  • First draft version of create backup command.
  • Possible to import both to Suku 2004 and to Finfamily.
  • No guarantee on correctnes yet.

New in FinFamily 563 Alpha (May 25, 2010)

  • FamilyTree view surety information added
  • removed Intellisens feature from query arguments dialog

New in FinFamily 557 Alpha (May 22, 2010)

  • Table notice moved to be printed before table header
  • FamilyTree view surety information added
  • removed Intellisens feature from query arguments dialog

New in FinFamily 548 Alpha (May 21, 2010)

  • Added place index to index (excel)file
  • Added sources to report and source index to index (excel)file

New in FinFamily 541 Alpha (May 10, 2010)

  • Added partly French language. Defaults to English when French word is missing.
  • Preparations for possible GenGraph
  • Refactored text files. Both program and report texts are now taken from excel-file. Only types are stored in database.

New in FinFamily 530 Alpha (May 6, 2010)

  • Bugfix for German language reports

New in FinFamily 528 Alpha (May 5, 2010)

  • Bugfix for German language reports

New in FinFamily 524 Alpha (May 4, 2010)

  • German language added.

New in FinFamily 518 Alpha (May 3, 2010)

  • Ancestor Table Report. Some fixes.
  • Hiski import refactored.
  • Fixed bug with US date format.

New in FinFamily 510 Alpha (Apr 29, 2010)

  • Ancestor Table Report. Graphic Excel report starts from Reports Ancestor tab

New in FinFamily 500 Alpha (Apr 19, 2010)

  • Family tree improvements. Family Tree requires update of database. Tools - Update database
  • File menu fixes.
  • Mac and Linux GUI improvements.

New in FinFamily 493 Alpha (Apr 14, 2010)

  • Family view improvements. Copy command to copy view to clipboard
  • Rescaling of Person View windows improved.
  • Some improvements to look and feel.

New in FinFamily 482 Alpha (Apr 6, 2010)

  • Gedcom export ready.
  • Gedcom import to read also directly from zip-file with images.
  • Added date and place to adoption notice

New in FinFamily 467 Alpha (Mar 30, 2010)

  • Gedcom export implemented. At least adoptions still missing.

New in FinFamily 454 Alpha (Mar 29, 2010)

  • Gedcom export skeleton added (does not yet write proper gedcom file).

New in FinFamily 442 Alpha (Mar 24, 2010)

  • Quick fix of bug that disabled changes in relations.

New in FinFamily 424 Alpha (Mar 15, 2010)

  • Fixed problem with name prefix
  • Child adding when child already has parent fixed

New in FinFamily 415 Alpha (Mar 8, 2010)

  • Added estimated time left to gedcom import
  • Refactored TABLE and FAMT notices in descendant report.
  • Added NOTE notice to marriage notice

New in FinFamily 411 Alpha (Mar 4, 2010)

  • Fixed bug when creating person with bad date
  • Added test for persons age
  • Fixed dbview tooltip to correct column

New in FinFamily 406 Alpha (Mar 2, 2010)

  • Fixed missing database create script.
  • Modifications in FinFamily build system
  • Removed Suku.exe from non-windows build.

New in FinFamily 0402 Alpha (Mar 1, 2010)

  • WebStart version tested. Only GUI part for now.
  • Changed word report type to .doc
  • Added separate windows installer to install into Program Files directory

New in FinFamily 0380 Alpha (Feb 24, 2010)

  • Image scaling implemented with both height and width
  • Test search now with keywords "and" "or" "not"

New in FinFamily 0373 Alpha (Feb 22, 2010)

  • Reworked the query database page.

New in FinFamily 0369 (Feb 22, 2010)

  • Removed PostgreSQL server commands. They no longer were compatible with PostgreSQL 4.x
  • Added Open person command to File menu.

New in FinFamily 0367 (Feb 19, 2010)

  • Improvements to Excel listreport for relatives with surety values < 100

New in FinFamily 0365 (Feb 18, 2010)

  • Added Excel listreport for relatives with surety values < 100
  • Combined TextsExcel file as sheet in TypesExcel.xls

New in FinFamily 0347 (Feb 2, 2010)

  • Implemented 4 levels of privacy for notices.

New in FinFamily 0302 (Jan 19, 2010)

  • Ancestor report improvements. Epsolin numbering added.
  • Fixed Suku2004 import for orphan relations.

New in FinFamily 0284 (Jan 16, 2010)

  • With Family setting implemented for ancestor report
  • Gedcom import improvements/fixes

New in FinFamily 11 (Dec 4, 2009)

  • Initialized intellisens places with actual data from db at connect
  • Intellisens in use at main person place fields. press first character to display list of places. Select from list using arrow keys and enter or mouse. Arrow keys are forwarded to scrollbar and window may scroll because of that. Searching still for solution to the scrolling effect.