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MacFamilyTree Changelog

What's new in MacFamilyTree 10.3.1

Apr 8, 2024
  • Logging in to FamilySearch is now using a more secure method
  • Many smaller improvements and bug fixes concerning the new Search feature
  • Issues using the Virtual Tree on older Macs fixed

New in MacFamilyTree 10.3 (Mar 12, 2024)

  • New Search feature
  • Completely rewritten from scratch
  • Simple, easy to use user interface – even for elaborate search requests
  • Supports nested hierarchical queries (For example: Last Name is Fowley or Flowly, Birth Year is 1954)
  • Many available options, like case-insensitive and diacritic matching
  • Configurable results list: Specify which columns and information are displayed for search results
  • Unlimited number of search criteria
  • Create Person Groups directly from search results
  • Incredible fast – even in larger family trees
  • Supports "Regular Expressions" as search criteria
  • Includes many predefined search templates for common use cases
  • Now supports searching for Places, Person Events, Person Facts, Family Events, To Do's, Stories, Notes and Person Groups
  • Simply add new search criteria directly from the results list using drag & drop
  • The new Search feature allows you to save common search queries in order to use them again at a later time
  • Much improved Smart Filters
  • Now, Smart Filters may be directly created from the new Search feature
  • Simply save a search query as a smart filter for use in all lists
  • Completely redesigned user interface to create and manage Smart Filters
  • Smart Filters now also support nested, hierarchical queries using "And" or "Or" operators
  • New Search & Replace feature
  • Search & Replace may now be limited to the results of a previous search query – not only to the complete family tree
  • Replace virtually any information in any entry type in your family tree database – for example, the assigned labels
  • Using the new Search & Replace feature, it is now possible to replace the birth place for persons matching a specific search criteria
  • Specify exactly how a given match should be replaced: Change the whole value or change just the portion that matches the search criteria
  • Revamped results list: Like in the new Search feature, the results list is completely configurable
  • The results list now displays valuable information like birth dates and places. This way, it is easy to make sure that you are replacing the correct information

New in MacFamilyTree 10.2.3 (Feb 5, 2024)

  • Improvements migrating family trees from older versions
  • Improvements when entering places and using the distribution chart

New in MacFamilyTree 10.2.2 (Sep 28, 2023)

  • Compatibility with macOS Sonoma

New in MacFamilyTree 10.2.1 (Sep 25, 2023)

  • Compatibility with macOS Sonoma

New in MacFamilyTree 10.2 (Mar 27, 2023)

  • Interactive Tree – greatly enhanced:
  • The Interactive Tree now supports four different orientations (top to bottom, left to right, etc.)
  • Plethora of new configuration options like different colors, shadows and margins added. The new Interactive Tree is more configurable than ever in order to suite your needs
  • In addition to birthdates, the new Interactive Tree can display the generation number on Generation Bands
  • Lines, Generation Bands or the background can be configured with custom colors
  • Integration of data from FamilySearch has been vastly improved and now displays complex relationships much better
  • Much improved and easier to understand settings
  • Separate branches can now be shown with larger margins to improve clarity
  • The entire alignment of the Interactive Tree has been vastly improved
  • Better alignment of connections between parents and children
  • Completely new: Flat Interactive Tree:
  • In addition to the 3D Interactive Tree, a completely new, flat Interactive Tree is now available offering a more traditional visual style
  • Seamlessly switch between the 3D and the flat Interactive Tree – the root person and the selected person are preserved when switching
  • Completely configurable: Every aspect, like colors, margins, generation bands and so on, can be adapted to your liking
  • The flat Interactive Tree optionally displays all person events for a person
  • Vastly improved: 3D Interactive Tree:
  • Many new options for Generation Bands added: New pedestal and stair modes added, as well as many new coloring options
  • When using pedestal or stair Generation Bands, non-blood relationships may optionally be displayed at a lower height
  • Different patterns and colors added for the ground below the 3D Interactive Tree
  • Greatly enhanced performance – especially on older hardware, the number of frames per seconds is much higher than previously
  • Face Detection:
  • Faces in your pictures are now be automatically detected using Machine Learning. This automatically happens in the background
  • This happens locally on your device – your pictures won't be sent anywhere
  • When browsing charts, reports or while editing your data, pictures with detected faces will optionally be cropped accordingly
  • You can deactivate the automatic face detection in the preferences
  • CloudTreeWeb:
  • The web interface to CloudTree is now better integrated into the app
  • Using the edit mode, you can now copy or open direct links to CloudTreeWeb – this way, you can send your relatives direct links to persons, families or sources on CloudTreeWeb in order to add valuable information
  • A guide has been added on how to work together with Windows or Android users
  • General:
  • Greatly enhanced performance throughout the app
  • Touch Bar support improved in MacFamilyTree
  • The maximum recursion depth may be specified when displaying charts
  • Many setting dialogs have been reworked and enhanced for better clarity

New in MacFamilyTree 10.1.2 (Jan 18, 2023)

  • CloudTree: Several stability improvements
  • Configured name schema is now correctly displayed in the edit families section
  • Downloading media from FamilySearch improved
  • Virtual Tree may now be moved using a pan gesture on the trackpad
  • Localization improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 10.1.1 (Nov 26, 2022)

  • New Smart Filter added to filter persons by the count of person events
  • Issue renaming family tree files corrected
  • Issue merging family trees with sources corrected
  • Localization enhancements

New in MacFamilyTree 10.1 (Nov 8, 2022)

  • Stories:
  • Create stories about events and people in your family tree
  • Stories can be read directly with text-to-speech
  • A new report type displays recorded stories clearly and printable
  • Stories are divided into individual sections, to which you can also add media such as images, PDFs, sound or videos
  • Assign entries such as events or persons from your family tree to your stories, which appear in the stories
  • See world-historic events, which happened in the period of your story
  • User Interface:
  • If you prefer a less colorful user interface, a gray or blue color scheme for icons can now be selected via the preference setting
  • World history events are now also accessible from the person and family event views
  • It is now possible to call the linked person or family from the person or family event view
  • The relationship diagram can now be opened directly from the person or family view to show the relationship to the starting person
  • Speed optimizations
  • CloudTree:
  • "Public Links": Optionally create links that allow other MacFamilyTree or MobileFamilyTree users to join your tree directly. It is no longer mandatory to specify recipients' mail addresses in advance.
  • The management of participants on CloudTree has been significantly improved
  • If you have received an invitation link, you can now enter it directly into MacFamilyTree or MobileFamilyTree, in case there were problems with joining
  • Change Dates of Entries:
  • The handling of change dates has been completely revised: For example, the person's change date is also updated when an event of the person has been changed
  • Change dates are now reliably matched via CloudTree
  • Sources:
  • New citation options introduced when quoting sources: Single and double quotation marks as well as colon and semicolon
  • GEDCOM support:
  • Some improvements in importing GEDCOM 7 files
  • Unknown tags in GEDCOM files are now better recognized and processed
  • Charts:
  • Speed of diagrams increased significantly: Most diagrams are now displayed between 5 and 40 percent faster, depending on the file size.

New in MacFamilyTree 10.0.7 (May 5, 2022)

  • Source citations are now ordered correctly in reports
  • Merging families now works as expected
  • Improved merging of event types
  • Sorting families bei marriage date now works as expected
  • Fixed an error uploading places with spaces in their names to FamilySearch
  • Configuration of source citations is now correctly exported to GEDCOM files
  • Localization improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 10.0.6 (Apr 11, 2022)

  • Virtual Tree: Compatibility with various GPUs improved
  • Sources list report: Sorting by reference number fixed
  • Option added to filter todo's by label
  • Ancestor chart now displays correct kinship relationships
  • Ascending/descending sorting option added to the changes list report
  • Relationship types (adopted, biological) are now evaluated correctly in the statistics chart
  • Parents, partners and children now display birth and death date when shown in the edit section

New in MacFamilyTree 10.0.5 (Mar 27, 2022)

  • Events entered after the death of a person no longer display the persons age
  • Searching ToDo lists improved
  • The Timeline report now correctly displays world history events
  • Selecting associated persons improved
  • Sorting of person and family events improved
  • Importing GEDCOM files with invalid UTF characters now works correctly

New in MacFamilyTree 10.0.4 (Mar 14, 2022)

  • Connection line width may now be adjusted in the Interactive Tree
  • Improved display of persons from FamilySearch in the Interactive Tree
  • Same-sex relations are now displayed correctly when editing families
  • Display issue of the Virtual Tree on Macs equipped with an Nvidia graphics card fixed
  • Dialog while adding media now fits on smaller screens
  • Memory management when using FamilySearch improved
  • Labels for events are now displayed while editing places
  • Labels are also displayed in the source list when editing persons or families
  • Issues adding persons to person groups fixed
  • Issues exporting reports as text files fixed

New in MacFamilyTree 10.0.3 (Mar 1, 2022)

  • Copy & paste for source citations added
  • Labels are now displayed on person boxes in the edit mode
  • The sidebar can now be hidden when displaying the Virtual Tree
  • Person Report now displays additional names correctly
  • Sorting of person and family events improved
  • Stability improvements
  • Localization updates

New in MacFamilyTree 10.0.2 (Feb 24, 2022)

  • Improved sorting of partners in the person report
  • Performance of the event list report improved if many events are present
  • Issues in the Tree Chart fixed
  • Improved reliability of CloudTree sync
  • Localizations improved

New in MacFamilyTree 10.0.1 (Feb 23, 2022)

  • Corrected error message from CloudTree at first start
  • CSV Export of Reports improved
  • Distribution Chart now displays Illness and Occupation correctly
  • Performance editing charts improved

New in MacFamilyTree 10.0 (Feb 21, 2022)

  • New: Edit Section:
  • Completely new edit section – redeveloped from scratch for macOS and iOS
  • MacFamilyTree and MobileFamilyTree now come with the exact same feature set in the edit section
  • Automatically adjusts to small and large screen to make the best use of the available screen estate – from an iPhone screen to a large 4K screen
  • Edit most information directly in lists: A click on a list expands a specific row and reveals a form to enter data
  • Completely configureable: Specify what forms should be present when editing a specific entry and where they should appear
  • Separate edit and display mode: In display mode, only forms with information present will be displayed. In edit mode, all forms are shown (you may specify in the preferences what mode will be used as default)
  • Use speech recognition to fill in long texts
  • Customizable additional name types: When entering further names (for example, the stage name of a person) you may now add your own, custom types of additional names
  • Improved auto-complete: When entering data in forms, automatically see a list of suggestions of previously entered data from other entries
  • When adding media like pictures and videos, you may now specify a recording date
  • Reference numbers can now be viewed and edited directly for each entry
  • Child-Parent-Relations: Much easier to specify if children are adopted by which parent
  • Much easier to specify Sources of person and family events and facts
  • Mark persons as dead, even if no further information is available (like a date or place of death)
  • Bookmarks for places for often use place names
  • You may now specify a time of an event in addition to the date
  • Vastly enhanced to do management: Add media (pictures, PDFs, websites, audio or video) to to do’s as well as notes
  • Edit places with either a vertical or horizontal layout
  • Copy person events: Simply copy an event from one person to another – useful for events like the place of residence when persons moved to a new living place together
  • Media of events and facts are now displayed as thumbnails in the event and fact lists
  • All questions if a certain entry should be deleted may now be suppressed
  • New & Improved: User Interface:
  • Redesigned function selection list in the sidebar
  • Assign unique colors for genders and function categories for dark and light appearance
  • Specify the appearance (dark/light) separately from the macOS appearance
  • Improved: Interactive Tree:
  • Greatly enhanced appearance: New person symbols, new generation sections and connections
  • Vastly improved performance, especially on M1-based Macs
  • Improved editing of persons and families – all forms present in the edit section are now present in the Interactive Tree as well
  • Parent-Child-Relations (for example, for adopted children) may now be edited directly in the Interactive Tree
  • Customizable font size for forms in the Interactive Tree
  • New camera orientations added
  • New lighting modes added
  • Improved display of numbering systems in the Interactive Tree
  • New: Virtual Tree:
  • Vastly improved appearance
  • Simulates depth of field for impressive visuals
  • Greatly enhanced alignment of persons in the Virtual Tree – even for elaborate family trees
  • Faster performance: Most of the family trees will be displayed instantaneously without delay
  • Relationship paths: Display, how two persons are related directly in the Virtual Tree – like in the the Relationship Chart
  • Completely rewritten from scratch – now based on Apple Metal for increased performance and efficiency
  • New: Numbering Systems:
  • Henry, D’Aboville and Kekulé/Sosa numbering systems are now supported
  • Correctly handles complex relationships, like incest relationships
  • Automatically updates the assigned numbers for the current numbering system if new persons or relationships are added – and the specified numbering system is now saved in the family tree
  • Improved user interface to specify what numbering system should be used
  • New: Person Groups:
  • Branches and specific parts of your family tree may now be separated using Person Groups
  • Option to only display members of specific person groups in charts – this way, you may only display a chart for a specific group of persons
  • Also, the Statistics Chart may be limited to specific person groups allowing only the evaluation of specific branches or set of persons
  • Person Groups consists of a description, media (like a family crest), to do’s and notes
  • The Interactive Tree as well as all charts may now show persons in the colors of their person group
  • New: Support for GEDCOM 7:
  • Specify if a GEDCOM file should be exported using GEDCOM 5.5.1 or GEDCOM 7
  • On import, it is automatically detected if the file is a GEDCOM 5.5.1 or GEDCOM 7 file
  • Support for GEDZIP: Export and import GEDZIP files that contain a GEDCOM file as well as all media like pictures in a single file
  • Improved: Import from Address Book:
  • Greatly improved selection of persons from the Address Book that should be imported
  • Imports person images, relationships and the place of residence
  • Simultaneously import multiple persons at once
  • New: Virtual Globe:
  • Improved appearance
  • New timeline control: See when events took place and adjust the date range of what should be displayed on the Virtual Globe
  • Pictures of places are now displayed on the Virtual Globe
  • Augmented Reality: Walk around the Virtual Globe using AR – place it in front of you on a table or in your room
  • Completely redeveloped from line one – also based on Apple Metal for increased performance and efficiency
  • New: Sources:
  • Completely new template system for sources
  • Large number of included source templates for all commonly used sources – but you may also add your own, custom source templates
  • Fully configureable source templates: Add your own or remove seldom used fields from source templates
  • Completely configurable source citations: Specify how source citations should be displayed in reports. Edit the used fonts, separators, order and brackets of each field in a source template
  • Record further informations: Add fields to a source even if the field is not part of the currently selected source template
  • Source repositories may now contain a complete postal address, web site address, phone number and email address
  • Unknown GEDCOM tags may now be added as new source template fields when importing a GEDCOM file
  • Duplicate source templates or source fields may be merged to avoid duplicates
  • Improved: Reports:
  • The event list report may now be limited to a specific date range so only events from this date range will be displayed
  • Vastly improved source citations for all reports
  • Improved: Charts:
  • Many new chart styles and templates added
  • Improved Double Ancestor Chart: Compact mode added for better space usage
  • New options for text colors in charts: By gender and by generation added
  • Performance enhanced when used in macOS Big Sur or macOS Monterey
  • Icons of custom person fact types are now displayed in all charts
  • New: Scan using the iPhone or iPad camera:
  • Take pictures of photos or documents and import them into your family tree
  • Documents and photos will be automatically straightened and cropped
  • No scanner required – the camera of your iPhone and iPad is all you need
  • Also usable directly from your Mac: Using the special menu item, your iPhone and iPad camera may be used to scan documents and photos
  • Improved: Cloud Tree:
  • Vastly improved performance allowing you to edit your family tree while syncing is in progress
  • Syncing will now be much faster than before while using considerably less processing power
  • Improved: Performance:
  • Restructured family tree database resulting in greatly enhanced performance
  • Zooming in larger pictures is now much more responsive
  • Vastly improved performance when using FamilySearch – especially in larger family tree with many found results
  • Performance of media slideshows improved, now using the build-in fullscreen mode of macOS
  • Reports are now displayed using considerably less processing power, especially when a report includes many pictures
  • Improved performance when adding media from the photo library
  • Improved: Welcome Window:
  • Sections: Local family trees, family trees on Cloud Tree and iCloud and family trees from previous versions are now displayed in separate sections
  • Other:
  • Share media using share sheets with other persons
  • When scanning documents on a Mac, directly specify the title of the scanned document
  • When managing bookmarks, the search feature has been vastly improved
  • Greatly enhanced search & replace feature: To Do’s, media, person facts and person groups are now supported
  • Specifying the location of where to save your family trees on your hard drive has been improved
  • Configureable AirPlay mode: Select if the whole display should be shared on an AirPlay screen or if only the content of a report or chart should be shown on the big screen

New in MacFamilyTree 9.3.3 (Dec 13, 2021)

  • Improved Auto-Download-Feature from FamilySearch
  • Stability of CloudTree Sync improved
  • Sorting of the ToDo list by Priority or Status is now handled correctly
  • Detection of incorrect dates improved
  • Other bug fixes

New in MacFamilyTree 9.3.2 (Jul 28, 2021)

  • Major performance improvements when using the FamilySearch integration
  • Several bugs fixed

New in MacFamilyTree 9.3.1 (Jul 16, 2021)

  • Minor Bugfixes

New in MacFamilyTree 9.3 (Jul 16, 2021)

  • Completely New FamilySearch Integration
  • Hint-based card system showing possible actions for persons or historical records
  • Upload and Download Pictures from FamilySearch
  • If pictures or historical records are available for a person, these can be downloaded to the local family tree database
  • Pictures from your local family tree can be uploaded to FamilySearch in order to contribute to the "FamilySearch Family Tree"
  • Edit metadata for pictures on FamilySearch, such as title or the description
  • Completely New Sync Compare View
  • Names, events, partners, and children are now displayed in groups
  • Data already synced is now displayed side-by-side, greatly enhancing the clarity of information
  • Remove locally stored information directly from the new compare view – for example, to replace them with data from FamilySearch. No need to exit the compare view anymore
  • Facts like "Physical Description“ can now be synced with FamilySearch
  • Merging of duplicate persons on FamilySearch greatly enhanced
  • Gender can now be updated on FamilySearch persons
  • Greatly enhanced Background Scans on FamilySearch
  • Improved result quality when scanning for person matches on FamilySearch
  • Automatic Matches: When scanning for person matches, MacFamilyTree will automatically match persons when there is a distinct high-quality match. In order to review auto-matches, these are displayed in a list for verification.
  • MacFamilyTree now scans persons for historical records and sources on FamilySearch, like Census information
  • Background scan results are now stored in the family tree database. This way, scans seamlessly continue after re-opening your family tree and won’t start over
  • Greatly improved result lists including enhanced layout, sorting and more
  • MacFamilyTree now also scans for person pictures available on FamilySearch
  • Faster scan for LDS "Ordinance Opportunities" on FamilySearch
  • Improved Manual Search on FamilySearch
  • Completely configurable person search – specify what search filters should be matched when searching for persons
  • Many new search filters available, for example "Birth Date of Mother“
  • Greatly enhanced layout of search results
  • If no automatic matches can be found on FamilySearch, persons can now be matched using a manual search
  • Auto-Download of Persons
  • Much faster download of persons than previously
  • Specify if only ancestors, descendants or all related persons should be downloaded for a given start person
  • Optionally, pictures of persons are also downloaded from FamilySearch to your local family tree
  • Further enhancements of the FamilySearch Integration
  • When downloading places, geographic coordinates are automatically downloaded from FamilySearch
  • FamilySearch user name and password is now optionally stored per family tree
  • Enhanced Interactive Tree
  • Greatly improved performance
  • Display of Information on FamilySearch enhanced – Icons including an explanation show the status of persons on FamilySearch
  • Further enhancements
  • Completely new Register Report
  • Tree Chart may now be displayed with a single ancestor or descendant generation
  • Improved display of person facts in all charts
  • Further performance enhancements on M1 Macs
  • Improvements when using macOS Big Sur

New in MacFamilyTree 9.2 (Nov 13, 2020)

  • Native version for Apple Silicon on Mac
  • Major user interface update for macOS Big Sur

New in MacFamilyTree 9.1.2 (Aug 19, 2020)

  • Large Charts now work reliably when exporting websites
  • Notes are now sorted by creation date when exporting a GEDCOM file
  • The initial scale of the Virtual Globe is now chosen correctly when using a Retina display
  • Managing LDS Ordinances on FamilySearch improved

New in MacFamilyTree 9.1.1 (Jul 21, 2020)

  • Media can now be opened when referenced from a source
  • Source citations now show up correctly when exporting a website
  • Person images are now displayed correctly when editing a chart
  • Localization updates

New in MacFamilyTree 9.1 (Jun 16, 2020)

  • Colorize Black & White Photos
  • Magically create color images from your precious black & white photographs in a single click — with the help of Artificial Intelligence
  • MacFamilyTree’s Artificial Intelligence automatically recognizes grass, sky, and faces and then chooses the appropriate colors
  • Works especially well with Portraits, Landscape Photographs, and Group Pictures of up to 10 Persons
  • Image Enhancement
  • Enhances pictures with the help of Machine Learning
  • Scales Pictures up to quadruple the size of the original to reveal details not present in the Original Picture
  • Removes noise and Compression Artifacts — especially useful for older scanned documents and low-resolution images
  • New Image-Editing Features
  • Stepless rotation and easy to use crop function for photographs and scanned documents
  • Adjust brightness, contrast, and saturation of images
  • Non-Destructive: Every Operation can be reverted and Original Images are never altered
  • Further Media Improvements
  • Drastic performance enhancements of the Media Gallery and the Edit Media Section
  • Smooth zooming using gestures on your trackpad or your scroll wheel in the Edit Media Section
  • Improved titles for Imported Images
  • New Reports
  • New Status Report contains a summary of your Family Tree – for example, how many Persons or Families have been added
  • Timeline Report: Shows the chronology of a Person and Close Relatives
  • Today Report lists all events that have occurred on Today’s Date in your Family Tree
  • LDS Ordinances Report: lists all ordinances that have been reserved or printed (For LDS members)
  • Fact List: Displays all entered Facts grouped by Fact Type
  • Report Improvements:
  • The Places List can now display Media that has been added to a Place
  • Adjust the size of Person Pictures in all reports
  • The Person List Report can now display the Person Picture in an additional column
  • New minimalistic book style
  • Information may now be displayed as a List or Table in every Report
  • Display Notes, Labels, and Reference Numbers in the Person List Report
  • Further Improvements
  • Improved editing of Custom Events and Fact Types
  • Improved compatibility with Family Search and the updated LDS Temple List
  • Web Site Export: Improved display of Notes
  • Large charts that have been exported as PDF files are now compatible with Adobe Acrobat Reader
  • Plausibility Warnings now work correctly when using approximate date formats

New in MacFamilyTree 9.0.12 (Apr 1, 2020)

  • Reliability of CloudTree improved
  • Issues displaying maps in the maps report fixed
  • Merging larger family trees now works as expected
  • Custom event and fact types are now handled correctly in the person list report
  • Using Smart Filters with To Dos works correctly now
  • Issue launching MacFamilyTree fixed when the default network interface is not present
  • Layout of sub sections in reports improved
  • Localication improvements
  • French user guide added

New in MacFamilyTree 9.0.10 (Oct 24, 2019)

  • Issues using Source Citations in Books fixed
  • Privacy settings are now evaluated correctly for the Kinship Report
  • Error displaying long notes in the Edit section corrected
  • Sorting in the Map Report improved
  • Books: When selecting families or persons, the lists are now sorted correctly
  • Search using FamilySearch improved
  • Preparations for a future FamilySearch update
  • Issue editing family event types corrected
  • Fan Chart: Kinships are now correctly displayed for descendants
  • Localization improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 9.0.9 (Sep 23, 2019)

  • Description of events added to the Family Report
  • Issues in the Family Report settings fixed
  • Improvements displaying step or adopted relationships in the Kinship Report
  • Web Export: Issues displaying Statistic Charts resolved
  • Performance when copying family trees using AirDrop improved
  • Stability improvements when using CloudTree
  • Performance of the Virtual Globe vastly improved when displaying a large number of places
  • Person Report: Improvements displaying facts
  • Localization improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 9.0.8 (Sep 2, 2019)

  • Descendancy Report now optionally displays the place of marriage
  • Fixed layouting issues in the fan chart
  • Narrative Report evaluates divorce events correctly now
  • The Distribution Chart and Statistic Chart are now correctly evaluating the specified date range
  • In charts as well as in reports, the calculated age will now correctly be displayed in the specified language
  • Events list in the Person Report improved
  • Localisation improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 9.0.7 (Aug 23, 2019)

  • Sorting in the Map Report now works as expected
  • Stability of the Interactive Tree improved when multiple windows are used
  • Sharing the Family Report via AirDrop now works as expected
  • Issues in the settings of the Narrative Report fixed
  • The Slideshow now works as expected
  • Search improvements
  • Notes that are referenced multiple times are now correctly imported from GEDCOM files
  • Text of source citations will now import correctly from GEDCOM files
  • Issues using the Web Research function fixed
  • Sorting of Events in Charts improved

New in MacFamilyTree 9.0.6 (Aug 21, 2019)

  • Stability improvements when syncing with CloudTree
  • Sorting in the Sources Report now works as expected
  • Exporting and removing partial trees now works with family trees of any size
  • The hourglass chart and the genfgram chart can now be customised to just show one ancestor or descendant generation
  • Charts in reports will now appear correctly when exporting as a PDF file
  • Sorting of events in the person and family report fixed
  • The person report now displays the authority and cause of events

New in MacFamilyTree 9.0.5 (Aug 19, 2019)

  • Books: Option added to hide subsections from the table of contents
  • Books: Option added to hide chapter numbers
  • Web search: OpenArch.nl added
  • Display of dates in reports improved
  • Event descriptions can now be reliably hidden in the Fan Chart
  • Bugs fixed for a future macOS release
  • Issues exporting web sites resolved
  • Events list can now display the cause, authority or address of events

New in MacFamilyTree 9.0.4 (Aug 13, 2019)

  • Zooming by pinch gesture is now supported in the Edit Media section
  • Cause and description of events can now be displayed when diagram with the Card style is selected
  • Editing the tree chart improved
  • Several stability improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 9.0.3 (Aug 12, 2019)

  • Charts can now display the cause of events in addition to the description, date and type
  • Family Report configuration enhanced: Optionally hide reference numbers, improved configuration layout
  • Enhancements for Dark Mode
  • The Hourglass chart in the Person Report now displays the correct count of generations
  • The orientation of the Relationship Chart fixed
  • Markers for living persons in the Genogram are now displayed reliably

New in MacFamilyTree 9.0.2 (Aug 7, 2019)

  • Family trees from previous versions that have been uploaded on CloudTree can not be deleted reliably
  • Limit the count of generations to be displayed in the Virtual Tree
  • Layout of the Fan Chart improved
  • The Ahnentafel Report can now display up to 100 generations
  • Option to hide the description of events in charts

New in MacFamilyTree 9.0.1 (Aug 5, 2019)

  • Order of place name components in reports fixed
  • User interface customization is now retained after relaunching MacFamilyTree
  • Localization improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 9.0 (Jul 31, 2019)

  • New User Interface
  • Layout vastly improved, modern design
  • Improved space usage, especially when using the edit section
  • Improved display of children as a list when editing families
  • Configurable color scheme
  • Completely new Charts
  • Greatly enhanced performance
  • Multicore processors found in modern Macs are fully utilized
  • Rendering charts is completely handled by the graphics hardware/GPU
  • Nearly unlimited options configuring charts
  • Many included themes and templates
  • Text-only themes
  • Themes optimised for monochrome printing
  • Much improved and more efficient PDF export
  • Bitmap export as a PNG or JPEG file, optionally as individual pages
  • Several options to colorize generations added
  • Improved display of step and adoptive relationships
  • Age of the person at time of an event can be included optionally
  • Improved search for specific persons in a chart
  • New coloring options: By age and by birth year
  • Customize the name format to be used in a chart
  • Choose between different date formats (like long or short formats) to be displayed
  • New Chart Edit Mode (Mac)
  • Improved user interface layout
  • Edit events or facts to be shown for specific persons
  • Improved options for text added to the chart
  • Improved arrows and lines: More options and line/arrow labels
  • Enhanced options to distribute the chart to multiple pages
  • Undo/redo
  • New Tree Chart
  • Much improved layout
  • Greatly enhanced performance
  • Persons are grouped for easier navigation
  • Many new options to configure the Tree Chart
  • New Fan Chart
  • Optionally include person images
  • Many new themes and templates
  • New configuration options added
  • Optionally displays all events and facts for persons
  • Greatly enhanced text display
  • New Descendancy Chart
  • Improved layout
  • Can display up to 100 generations
  • Improved Statistics Chart
  • Much improved configuration options
  • Fully customise the appearance of the diagram grid
  • Optionally display numbers at each data point
  • Much improved performance
  • New statistic type: Month of divorce
  • New statistic type: First names
  • New statistic type: Titles
  • New statistic type: Age at christening
  • New statistic type: Age at retirement
  • New statistic type: Place of marriage, country of marriage
  • New statistic type: Place of burial, country of burial
  • New statistic type: Year of christening, year of burial
  • New statistic type: Genders
  • Option to exclude events and facts marked as private
  • New Distribution Chart
  • Visualize the distribution of names, birth place, birth country and genders over time
  • Also displays all person facts, like eye color, over time
  • Additionally shows the distribution of illnesses and occupations over time
  • Improved configuration options
  • Much improved graphics
  • Enhanced performance
  • New Double Ancestor Chart
  • New layout options added
  • Much improved layout and space usage
  • Optionally include brothers and sisters of ancestors
  • Improved Ancestor Chart
  • New compact view
  • Improved display of branches (when two distinct branches are colliding, they are separated by a greater distance)
  • Start person and partners are displayed in separate groups optionally
  • Now supports up to 100 generations
  • Optionally include brothers and sisters of the ancestors
  • Improved Hourglass Chart
  • Much improved layout
  • Many new configuration options added
  • Optionally display brothers and sisters of ancestors
  • Improved Timeline
  • Better space usage and layout
  • Optionally display the persons age at the time of event
  • New coloring option: By age
  • Improved Genogram
  • Configurable Layout
  • Much improved display of events
  • Improved connection lines
  • Improved Saved Charts Section
  • Better user interface
  • Improved Thumbnails
  • Completely new Reports and Lists
  • Many themes and styles included ranging from plain text to coloful and complex designs
  • Each report and report theme is completely configurable to the last detail
  • Export all lists as CSV files compatible to Numbers and Excel
  • All reports can be exported as plain text or RTF files
  • On larger screens, several report pages can be shown side-by-side for better space usage
  • Choose between different date formats (like long or short formats) to be displayed
  • Source citations are now completely configurable. All information from a source can also be included in the source citation.
  • Choose between three on-screen display modes: Normal page, endless page without page breaks or scalable full-screen view
  • Click on persons, events, places, sources or media in a report to directly access the entry in the edit section
  • New Report Edit Mode
  • Undo/redo supported
  • Customize each word, color or font of a report
  • Remove unwanted sections in a report
  • Add annotations, pictures, PDFs and Text as well as additional rows in tables
  • Copy & paste text from or to the new reports editor
  • New Person List
  • Freely specify what should be displayed in each column
  • Many options to customize sorting and grouping
  • Improved Person Report
  • Overview section at the beginning of the person report
  • Much improved ancestors and descendants section
  • Specify how large images of persons are displayed
  • Optionally display reference numbers like GEDCOM IDs or AFN numbers
  • Improved Family Report
  • Much improved layout of events and facts
  • Optionally display reference numbers like GEDCOM IDs or AFN numbers
  • Optionally, the family report shows an overview of the selected family at the start of the report
  • Improved Descendancy Report
  • Much improved layout, especially when displaying parents
  • Optionally display marriage dates or further information about parents
  • Improved Map Report
  • Configure which person events should be used to display the map report
  • Optionally consolidate events at the same place
  • Improved Marriage List / Family List
  • New grouping options: By last name of husband, last name of wife or marriage place
  • Freely specify what should be displayed in each column
  • Improved Events List
  • Optionally deactivate the grouping of events by year
  • Option to only evaluate events of living persons
  • Improved Places List
  • Option to only evaluate events of living persons
  • Improved grouping options
  • Enhanced display of events at a place
  • Improved Anniversary Report
  • Optionally displays the anniversary year of an event
  • Much improved configuration options
  • Improved Person Analysis
  • Improved user interface for selecting the analysis mode
  • Enhanced display of persons in the report
  • Improved Sources List
  • Specify how large images of the source should be displayed
  • New grouping option: By source archive
  • Improved To Do Report
  • Optionally display an overview at the beginning of the report showing the count of unresolved and resolved to dos in the family tree
  • Enhanced Family Tree Books
  • Exactly specify which fonts should be used in your book
  • Also, all colors can be freely configured for the whole book
  • Choose what should be shown on the title page of your book
  • Specify an image for the title page or a family crest
  • Options to configure the page margins for odd and even pages
  • Improved Welcome Window
  • Completely rewritten
  • Much improved layout
  • Sorting options added
  • Add DNA test results to each person in your family tree – every major genealogy test vendor is supported
  • Support for Y-DNA, mtDNA and autosomal DNA tests
  • Additionally add media (PDFs, images), notes and to dos for each test
  • Option to add raw DNA data for each test
  • Multiple tests of different vendors can be added to a single person if required
  • CloudTree
  • The restriction which limits sharing of databases to 5.000 persons has been lifted. It is now possible to share family trees of any size (version 9 is required)
  • Much faster invitation of participants to family trees: Inviting new members now takes a few seconds instead of a few minutes
  • More efficient sync: Especially for small changes, syncing only takes a fraction of a second
  • Database
  • Much improved configuration options for parent-child relations: Specify how the child is related to the mother and father separately
  • Title can now be entered as an additional name
  • Specify which images should be displayed in the icon of the family tree. Optionally, the family crest can be used as the family tree icon
  • Optionally hide specific person and family images to be displayed in charts or in the interactive tree
  • Alternate place names can be entered for each place or transferred from the coordinate lookup feature
  • If no known birth dates for children are present, the birth order can be manually specified
  • Display of a persons has been improved to be shown as components (years, months, days) instead of a fractional number
  • Author Information and Family Crests
  • For every family tree, enter information and notes about the author
  • Additionally, store family crests directly in the family tree database
  • Optionally display family crests and author information in charts and reports
  • GEDCOM
  • Improved compatibility to PEDI tags used in Families
  • Submitter information in GEDCOM files is now supported
  • New Help/Manual system
  • In every section, a small question mark is shown. By using it, you are directly taken to the relevant page in the manual
  • Integrated reader: Read the manual directly from within the app

New in MacFamilyTree 8.5.4 (Apr 18, 2019)

  • Directly open PDF files in the Preview app from the Edit Media section
  • Backup window is now displayed correctly on smaller screens
  • Bug fixes for older macOS versions, especially when using the new Edit Media section
  • Localization updates

New in MacFamilyTree 8.5.3 (Mar 12, 2019)

  • Display of website and audio icons improved when using the new Dark Mode in macOS Mojave
  • Option added in the Edit Media section to open selected pictures with Preview
  • Slideshow fixed for macOS 10.11 El Capitan and macOS 10.10 Yosemite
  • Web Research sites updated
  • Localization improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 8.5.2 (Feb 26, 2019)

  • Issue corrected preventing family trees stored on iCloud Drive from opening correctly

New in MacFamilyTree 8.5.1 (Feb 24, 2019)

  • Stability issue fixed when adding new media to a family tree
  • Opening media from the search section is now working reliable

New in MacFamilyTree 8.5 (Feb 20, 2019)

  • Completely new Media section
  • Rewritten from the ground up
  • Quick and easy access to all media in a family tree, like Pictures, Videos, PDFs and Web Sites
  • Improved search feature
  • Blazingly fast: Even 10.000 images show up in under one second on recent Macs
  • Easily export media to other apps using drag & drop
  • Configurable sorting and grouping
  • Directly edit all metadata from the same view: Add titles, labels, notes and sources without having to leave the media section
  • Tag persons on group shots
  • Directly play videos and audio and quickly browse through PDF files
  • Complete keyboard navigation to navigate to the next or previous image
  • Use drag & drop to add new media to your family tree
  • New Media Gallery
  • Well structured overview of all media in your family tree
  • Enlarge any image, video, website or PDF with a single click to its full size
  • Completely configurable including thumbnail size, sorting and grouping
  • Keyboard navigation to navigate to the next or previous image
  • Different coloring modes to tag media by type or date
  • Perfect to present your family tree to your relatives
  • Improved Slideshow
  • Many new configuration options added
  • Improved selection of the media items to display in the slideshow
  • Better on-screen controls during slideshows
  • Improved Virtual Globe
  • Greatly improved quality of the map
  • Better connection lines between event places
  • Improved display of place and country names
  • Better list of person and person events for easier navigation
  • Vastly improved map sharpness on Macs with a Retina display
  • Use Smart Filters to only display specific persons
  • Improved search feature
  • Splitting Family Trees & Exporting specific parts
  • Need to export part of your family tree into a new file to share it with relatives? MacFamilyTree 8.5 will just do that.
  • Control precisely which part of your family tree should be exported (for example, only the paternal or maternal line)
  • Easy selection of the persons to export (for example using Smart Filters)
  • Removing parts of a Family Tree
  • Quickly and efficiently remove parts of your family tree without deleting persons one by one
  • Easy and precise control of which persons to remove and which to keep in your family tree
  • Other
  • When exporting GEDCOM files, optionally specify to only include the year component of dates
  • Many bug fixes and smaller improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 8.4.3 (Dec 4, 2018)

  • Issue displaying custom event icons fixed
  • Issue exporting web sites with images fixed when using Macs with a Retina display
  • Cancel button when editing places now works as expected
  • Performance enhancements when editing places in databases with a huge number of entered places
  • Error merging family trees with associated persons fixed
  • Localization updates

New in MacFamilyTree 8.4.2 (Oct 18, 2018)

  • Issues importing and exporting GEDCOM files corrected

New in MacFamilyTree 8.4.1 (Sep 25, 2018)

  • Big fixed that prevented opening trees when using macOS High Sierra

New in MacFamilyTree 8.4 (Sep 25, 2018)

  • MacFamilyTree has been optimized for macOS Mojave - this includes full support for the new macOS Mojave Dark Mode as well as several performance enhancements

New in MacFamilyTree 8.3.6 (Jul 26, 2018)

  • CloudTree synchronization issues fixed
  • Several FamilySearch issues fixed

New in MacFamilyTree 8.3.5 (Apr 25, 2018)

  • Age calculation in several views improved
  • Plausibility checks improved
  • Bug concerning the layout of several reports fixed
  • File size of exported PDF files improved
  • Duplicate search for Places improved
  • Error selecting categories in the World History section improved
  • Error in the GEDCOM header of exported GEDCOM files fixed
  • Improved localisations

New in MacFamilyTree 8.3.4 (Mar 15, 2018)

  • Issue fixed where certain charts for a family could not be displayed
  • Minor user interface problems fixed when merging family trees

New in MacFamilyTree 8.3.3 (Mar 8, 2018)

  • Fixes an bug that could cause the Interactive Tree to crash MacFamilyTree on certain Mac models.

New in MacFamilyTree 8.3.2 (Feb 27, 2018)

  • Fixes an issue where merging a database or searching for duplicates prevents CloudTree sync.

New in MacFamilyTree 8.3.1 (Feb 25, 2018)

  • Fixes an issue using the Interactive Tree on OS X 10.10 Yosemite and OS X 10.11 El Capitan

New in MacFamilyTree 8.3 (Feb 23, 2018)

  • Much Improved Interactive Tree
  • Support added for Metal 2 when running in macOS 10.13 High Sierra for incredible smooth animations and less energy consumption
  • Much improved text rendering when running on macOS 10.13 High Sierra
  • Improved visualization of family connections, persons and images
  • Much improved performance when using Family Search in the Interactive Tree
  • Improved indicators when further persons are present
  • Sidebar can be hidden when browsing the Interactive Tree
  • Print the Interactive Tree
  • Configurable Family Connections: Highlight blood relationships and adopted relationships
  • Improved generation separators: Quickly discover which persons are related
  • Improved control over shadows and lighting
  • Improved navigation and zoom
  • New Database Merge
  • Merge GEDCOM files and MacFamilyTree files to your current family tree
  • Detects persons, families, sources and places present in both files in order to avoid duplicates
  • Decide on a entry-by-entry case which information to preserve
  • New Duplicate Detection
  • Search for duplicate persons, families, places or sources in your family tree
  • When duplicate entries are found, merge these entries while preserving family connections
  • New Timeline
  • Completely redeveloped Timeline
  • Choose between 6 graphical styles
  • Group timeline entries to create separate sections by last name or birth place
  • Display historical events, like World War II, directly on the timeline
  • Configurable fonts
  • Configurable events: Choose which person and family events should be displayed in the timeline
  • Timeline can be configured to be displayed as a top to bottom chart or left to right chart
  • Other Improvements:
  • Performance of all charts & diagrams vastly improved
  • Performance across the app improved, especially when using macOS 10.13 High Sierra or iOS 11
  • Find and reveal specific persons in larger charts
  • Smart Filters improved with more search options
  • Improved places import from GEDCOM files
  • Improved display of married names
  • Improved plausibility warnings
  • Countless number of smaller improvements and bug fixes

New in MacFamilyTree 8.2.8 (Jan 17, 2018)

  • Smaller bug fixes.

New in MacFamilyTree 8.2.7 (Dec 19, 2017)

  • German and French localisation updated
  • Smaller bug fixes

New in MacFamilyTree 8.2.6 (Dec 3, 2017)

  • Fixes using FamilySearch from within MacFamilyTree

New in MacFamilyTree 8.2.5 (Oct 22, 2017)

  • Importing notes from GEDCOM files improved
  • Bugs in the Statistic Maps resolved
  • Picture display in charts improved
  • Updated French user manual
  • Bug in the language selection when using charts or reports resolved

New in MacFamilyTree 8.2.4 (Oct 9, 2017)

  • Several fixes for macOS High Sierra.

New in MacFamilyTree 8.2.3 (Jul 14, 2017)

  • Support added to print to more than 32x32 pages
  • Issues displaying labels fixed
  • Children in the Fan Chart are now ordered correctly
  • The Hourglass Chart hides information marked as private correctly
  • Localisation updates

New in MacFamilyTree 8.2.2 (Jul 4, 2017)

  • Stability issue using FamilySearch fixed
  • Printing improved
  • GEDCOM import improved concerning Places and Notes

New in MacFamilyTree 8.2.1 (Jun 24, 2017)

  • Bugs exporting GEDCOM files corrected
  • Issue in the Narrative Report fixed

New in MacFamilyTree 8.2 (Jun 22, 2017)

  • New & Improved Charts
  • New Fractal Tree Chart
  • New Horizontal/Vertical Fractal Chart
  • New Symmetrical Fractal Tree Chart
  • New Fractal Circular Tree Chart
  • Completely rewritten styling of most charts
  • Many configureable styling options to choose from
  • Configureable event & fact display
  • Configureable line styles
  • Configureable shadow styles
  • Size of boxes can be increased/decreased depending on generation in nearly all charts for better space efficiency
  • Greatly improved performance rendering charts
  • Select custom fonts in all charts
  • Labels can now be displayed in each chart
  • New background styles
  • Improved Timeline (configureable coloring and styles)
  • Reference Numbers can be shown in all charts
  • Display of kinships now available in the Genogram Chart
  • Tree Chart now displays family events like marriage and divorce correctly
  • Improved Fan Chart:
  • Configureable styles added
  • Improved Fan Chart text rendering
  • Much improved performance
  • Improved Chars Editor & Printing:
  • Configureable pagination layout for poster printing
  • Option to automatically layout objects to a specific count of pages
  • When printing to multiple pages, a page number can be printed on each page for easy identification
  • Unlimited undo while editing a chart
  • Improved user interface
  • FamilySearch improvements:
  • Performance of FamilySearch integration in the Interactive Tree dramatically improved
  • Comparing local and FamilySearch persons improved
  • Coordinates of places are automatically downloaded from FamilySearch
  • LDS Ordinances added (reserve, print, share with Temple etc.)
  • Family Tree is automatically scanned for possible LDS Ordinances that can be reserved
  • Other:
  • Improved organisation of functions
  • Keyboard navigation added to the Interactive Tree
  • GEDCOM import and interoperability with other apps improved
  • Date interpretation when exporting GEDCOM files improved
  • Options added to configure which additional names to display in addition to the full name
  • CloudTree performance improved

New in MacFamilyTree 8.1.4 (Feb 1, 2017)

  • Issue syncing with CloudTree fixed
  • Issue merging persons in a family tree fixed
  • Touch Bar integration using the Interactive Tree improved

New in MacFamilyTree 8.1.3 (Jan 17, 2017)

  • Plausibility Check is now handling LDS events correctly
  • Hourglass Chart in the Person Report can now be configured correctly
  • Issues migrating databases from previous versions fixed
  • Right-click in the Interactive Tree works reliably now
  • Interactive Tree background colors fixed

New in MacFamilyTree 8.1.2 (Dec 9, 2016)

  • Rare issue fixed where CloudTree does not sync a specific entry type
  • Fixed FamilySearch "Reject all Matches" button
  • New LDS Temples added

New in MacFamilyTree 8.1.1 (Dec 5, 2016)

  • Problem displaying the Map Report fixed
  • Rare crash issue fixed during syncing with CloudTree
  • Touch Bar updating issue fixed

New in MacFamilyTree 8.1 (Nov 30, 2016)

  • MacFamilyTree 8.1 comes with the brand new CloudTree feature - it is now possible for the first time to work on the same family tree with any number of users and in real time. All changes to your tree will be transferred and available to all other users invited by you within a few seconds. CloudTree operates in compliance with the highest privacy standards and relies on Apple's iCloud infrastructure.
  • CloudTree Sync
  • CloudTree syncs only changes. Sounds like a no-brainer to you? Well, it isn’t. The old iCloud sync always needed to transfer your complete family tree file. If you change just one person’s birthday, the whole file had to be uploaded and download again. With CloudTree Sync, only that single event has to be synchronized. This means faster sync than ever while consuming just very little bandwidth. Even sync via cellular network is no longer an issue.
  • CloudTree Share
  • Invite other iCloud users to work with them on the same family tree. All changes are synched within seconds and are available on all other devices. Just have a look at the change log if you want to know which entries changed and who contributed to your tree. There’s also a read-only mode if you like to show your tree to family members but don’t want them to edit anything.
  • Other improvements:
  • Support for Touch Bar added, several contextual functions are directly accessible from the small display above the keyboard on the recently introduced MacBook Pro
  • Improved place selection and management
  • Better Web Site export performance
  • Improved configuration of the Kinship report
  • Timeline chart can now be filtered using Smart Filters
  • Place list can now be sorted by state, county and country
  • Many new Smart Filter options added

New in MacFamilyTree 8.0.10 (Aug 19, 2016)

  • Fixes for an upcoming release of OS X
  • Several fixes exporting and importing GEDCOM files
  • Norwegian localization improved
  • Maximum zoom factor in the Fan Chart increased

New in MacFamilyTree 8.0.9 (Aug 12, 2016)

  • Stability improvements when using FamilySearch
  • Bug fixed that could lead to a crash during GEDCOM import
  • Localizations updated

New in MacFamilyTree 8.0.8 (Aug 3, 2016)

  • Norwegian localization added
  • Fixes for an upcoming OS X release
  • Using URLs in the media section improved

New in MacFamilyTree 8.0.7 (Jul 18, 2016)

  • Issues searching for matches on FamilySearch fixed
  • Issue fixed that could prevent the Relationship Chart from displaying correctly
  • Localization improvements
  • Sorting of partners in the descendant chart improved

New in MacFamilyTree 8.0.6 (Jul 5, 2016)

  • Several issues drawing connection lines in diagrams fixed
  • Sorting of family names improved when exporting web sites
  • Issues using the change log fixed

New in MacFamilyTree 8.0.5 (Jun 29, 2016)

  • Issue fixed that could lead to a crash displaying persons in the edit section.

New in MacFamilyTree 8.0.4 (Jun 28, 2016)

  • Improved Printing of Charts with many connection lines
  • Various stability improvements
  • French User Guide added
  • Localization improvements
  • Interactive Tree improved on Retina displays

New in MacFamilyTree 8.0.3 (Jun 7, 2016)

  • Several issues importing GEDCOM files corrected
  • Issues migrating MacFamilyTree 7 databases fixed
  • Partners are now correctly ordered in the descendancy chart
  • Fixed an issue that could result in crashes editing persons
  • Fixed an issue correctly evaluating which person event should be displayed on exported web sites
  • Localization updates

New in MacFamilyTree 8.0.2 (May 25, 2016)

  • Performance of the Interactive Tree improved
  • Issues with plausibility testing corrected
  • Manual coordinate input improved
  • Sorting of person events improved
  • GEDCOM exchange with third party apps improved

New in MacFamilyTree 8.0.1 (May 18, 2016)

  • Several GEDCOM issues fixed
  • Place coordinate data is now correctly imported from GEDCOM files
  • Backup Manager now works correctly on MacBook Air 11"
  • Errors in the Descendancy Report corrected
  • Performance of several database maintenance functions improved
  • Bug saving the Fan Chart as a PNG file corrected
  • Shadows in the Interactive Tree can now be disabled

New in MacFamilyTree 8.0 (Apr 19, 2016)

  • New Interactive Tree
  • Much improved layout
  • Beautiful new look
  • Navigate, add and enter persons faster than ever
  • Better FamilySearch integration
  • Force Touch supported
  • Completely configureable
  • Display up to 8 generations of ancestors and descendants at once, including brothers & sisters
  • Full keyboard control for browsing the Interactive Tree
  • Completely new user interface
  • Much better usage of screen space
  • Configureable functions layout
  • Hide functions you do not use often
  • Quick keyboard navigation
  • Global back and forward history similar to a web browser
  • New database management window
  • Smart Filters
  • See only relevant entries from your database you're currently focusing on
  • Create and save complex search filters (all living women in Texas)
  • Available for Persons, Families, Sources, Places and ToDo's
  • Also available for most reports to create specialized reports from a subset of persons from your tree
  • Powerful new Sidebar Lists
  • Completely redesigned Person, Family, Place, Source and ToDo sidebar lists
  • Much improved search options
  • Configureable grouping/sectioning options (for example by birth place, last name, creation date and so on)
  • Sorting options greatly enhanced
  • Available in the Edit, Views and Reports sections
  • Custom Event & Fact types
  • Create your own Person Events, Facts or Family Events, and record any kind of information
  • All reports and views adapted to display custom events and fact types
  • Hide event and fact types you do not use often
  • Easily import data from other genealogy apps
  • More default event and fact types added
  • Improved management of event icons
  • Improved edit mode
  • Adjustable font size for all edit sections
  • Improved keyboard navigation
  • Improved event, fact and source lists
  • Optionally larger sizes for parents, partners and children above and below the edit view
  • Better readability
  • Better performance
  • Change Log
  • All changes in your database are recorded for further reference
  • Keep track of when you worked on which records
  • See all change log entries for a specific person or family directly in the edit sections
  • Much improved performance
  • All parts of MacFamilyTree & MobileFamilyTree heavily optimized
  • Improved memory usage
  • GEDCOM support
  • Much improved compatibility with other apps
  • Better handling of custom GEDCOM tags from other genealogy apps
  • Improved importing performance
  • Detailed error reporting
  • Improved and configureable character encoding detection
  • Navigation Timeline
  • Quickly see and select persons related to the person you are currently editing
  • See when events happened in a person’s lifetime
  • Available in all edit functions
  • Plausibility testing
  • Checks for many different kinds of data integrity problems like „buried before death“
  • Available for the Interactive Tree or when editing persons or families
  • Improved places management
  • Map added to check if the selected place is the correct one
  • Improved automatic batch coordinate lookup
  • Rewritten places merge including automatic merge suggestions
  • Improved FamilySearch integration
  • Auto-Login option added
  • Improved performance when matching and downloading persons
  • Support for more event types
  • Unknown gender option added
  • Charts & Reports options revamped for better numerical input
  • More sorting & grouping options for the Person List report
  • Name Distribution can now be displayed for first name
  • Labels can now be displayed in all charts
  • New Events & Facts statistic chart added
  • New search sites added to the Web Research feature
  • Performance of the Media Gallery improved
  • Improved import from Apple’s Photos app
  • Person List Report option added to separate name components into different columns
  • New user manual

New in MacFamilyTree 7.6.3 (Mar 29, 2016)

  • Uploading information to FamilySearch fixed
  • Localization fixes
  • Narrative report fixed

New in MacFamilyTree 7.6.2 (Nov 25, 2015)

  • Several issues printing Reports to multiple pages solved
  • Added support for importing URLs in Sources from GEDCOM
  • Issue solved preventing media to show up in iCloud synced databases
  • Uploading person and family events to FamilySearch improved
  • Several localization issues fixed

New in MacFamilyTree 7.6.1 (Sep 22, 2015)

  • FamilySearch login issues fixed
  • Coordinate lookup fixed
  • Several localization issues corrected
  • Fixes for an upcoming OS X release

New in MacFamilyTree 7.6 (Aug 12, 2015)

  • Enhanced Source Management
  • Add notes to every individual source citation
  • Revamped options to assign source evidence, information and quality
  • Improved person and family event lists to display if source citations are available
  • Better display of source citations
  • Improved overview of citations when viewing a source
  • Copy & Paste for source citations
  • Improved source selection view when adding sources to entries
  • New Person Analysis Report
  • Displays interesting facts about your family tree, for example which persons have the same occupation or eye color
  • 18 data sources for person facts and events
  • New Fractal Ancestor Chart
  • Compact chart showing all ancestors of a person
  • Printable and configurable
  • Further Improvements
  • Greatly enhanced performance of person, family, source and place edit sections
  • Automatically assign place, county, state and country names when searching for coordinates of places
  • Compatibility to the upcoming new version of OS X
  • Improved sorting and display of dates before christ

New in MacFamilyTree 7.5.3 (Jul 27, 2015)

  • Several issues creating family books fixed
  • Localization issues corrected
  • Sorting in the media report fixed
  • FamilySearch matches are now displayed correctly
  • Crash issue when editing persons resolved

New in MacFamilyTree 7.5.2 (Jul 2, 2015)

  • Issues using the Research Assistant corrected
  • Date issues in the Anniversary Report fixed
  • Sorting issues in the Marriage List Report fixed
  • Sorting issues in the Person Report fixed
  • Sources are now correctly displayed when exporting web sites

New in MacFamilyTree 7.5.1 (Jun 19, 2015)

  • Genealogy Book Creation and Printing
  • Create complete genealogy books of your family tree
  • Lots of different styles and templates
  • Export as PDF file or print it out on your printer
  • Auto-create books highlighting a person, family or your complete database
  • Much improved Place management
  • Add Media, Notes and Labels to places
  • Apple Maps integration: Places are directly displayed on a map when editing
  • FamilySearch Record Hints
  • Directly view historical documents from within MacFamilyTree (birth, death certificates, census information etc)
  • Add historical documents as sources to your persons
  • Added support for Apples brand new Photos App
  • Improved Map view when editing persons & families & events
  • New all-textual styles for all reports
  • All charts & diagrams can be displayed and exported in 15 languages
  • Support for multiple numbering systems & person identifiers (AFN, RIN etc)
  • New Anniversary Report
  • New Map Report
  • Improved Fan Chart
  • To Do management improved
  • Interactive Tree improvements (Add brothers & sisters with a single clicks, more enhancements)
  • Fixed in Version 7.5.1:
  • Problems migrating previous databases corrected
  • Issues importing GEDCOM files with place coordinates fixed
  • Several localization issues fixed
  • Descendancy report is now available in up to 15 generations

New in MacFamilyTree 7.5 (Jun 3, 2015)

  • Genealogy Book Creation and Printing
  • Create complete genealogy books of your family tree
  • Lots of different styles and templates
  • Export as PDF file or print it out on your printer
  • Auto-create books highlighting a person, family or your complete database
  • Much improved Place management
  • Add Media, Notes and Labels to places
  • Apple Maps integration: Places are directly displayed on a map when editing
  • FamilySearch Record Hints
  • Directly view historical documents from within MacFamilyTree (birth, death certificates, census information etc)
  • Add historical documents as sources to your persons
  • Added support for Apples brand new Photos App
  • Improved Map view when editing persons & families & events
  • New all-textual styles for all reports
  • All charts & diagrams can be displayed and exported in 15 languages
  • Support for multiple numbering systems & person identifiers (AFN, RIN etc)
  • New Anniversary Report
  • New Map Report
  • Improved Fan Chart
  • To Do management improved
  • Interactive Tree improvements (Add brothers & sisters with a single clicks, more enhancements)

New in MacFamilyTree 7.3.4 (Mar 31, 2015)

  • GEDCOM import issues fixed
  • Duplicate search improved

New in MacFamilyTree 7.3.3 (Mar 2, 2015)

  • Issue uploading persons to FamilySearch corrected

New in MacFamilyTree 7.3.2 (Dec 9, 2014)

  • Stability improvements using FamilySearch integration
  • Issue displaying the correct name format resolved
  • Stability issue when adding photos from iPhoto resolved
  • Further smaller bugs fixed

New in MacFamilyTree 7.3.1 (Oct 29, 2014)

  • graphical glitch displaying charts corrected
  • localization issues corrected
  • m4a audio files can now be added to the database
  • other smaller fixes

New in MacFamilyTree 7.3 (Oct 17, 2014)

  • Beautiful new User Interface in Yosemite look
  • Handoff: Continue on your Mac what you started on your iPhone - and vice versa!
  • Much improved navigation bar

New in MacFamilyTree 7.2.4 (Aug 21, 2014)

  • Fixes for OS X Yosemite
  • Fixed a bug that could prevent successful creation of a backup
  • Localization issues fixed

New in MacFamilyTree 7.2.3 (Jul 16, 2014)

  • Preparation for FamilySearch Private Spaces

New in MacFamilyTree 7.2.2 (Jul 9, 2014)

  • Fixed upload issues to FamilySearch
  • Person context option in the edit section works correctly now
  • Issues exporting PDF files fixed
  • Several smaller issues generating reports fixed

New in MacFamilyTree 7.2.1 (Jul 1, 2014)

  • Fixed issue preventing login to MacFamilyTree.com for some users.

New in MacFamilyTree 7.2 (Jun 25, 2014)

  • Completely rewritten Reports
  • All reports have been rewritten from the ground up
  • Select report styles from lots of available presets
  • All reports can be displayed and exported in 16 languages
  • Choose custom watermarks, ornaments and borders for reports
  • New Descendancy Report
  • Much improved printing of reports
  • Improved PDF generation of reports
  • Paginated preview of the reports for printout
  • Rewritten narrative report including „text to speech“
  • Adjustable font scale for all reports
  • Improved Interactive Tree
  • Zoom the Interactive Tree for better overview and navigation
  • Improved user interface for better readability
  • Much improved performance
  • Display more generations simultaneously
  • Improved FamilySearch integration
  • Completely redesigned FamilySearch overview pane
  • Completely rewritten results list
  • Improved performance when scanning for matches on FamilySearch
  • Better detection of updated persons on FamilySearch including better change log
  • Improved discovery of further online information on FamilySearch
  • Faster scanning for matches and further information
  • Other
  • Refined user interface
  • Improved search function in the person list sidebar
  • New startup window
  • Major performance enhancements in all edit sections
  • Better scrolling behaviour when using a third-party mouse

New in MacFamilyTree 7.1.6 (Apr 24, 2014)

  • Several fixes and improvements handling databases

New in MacFamilyTree 7.1.5 (Mar 10, 2014)

  • Fixed an issue where MacFamilyTree appeared to be hanging while creating an automatic backup

New in MacFamilyTree 7.1.4 (Feb 19, 2014)

  • Now FamilySearch TreeShare Certified!
  • Much enhanced FamilySearch person compare view
  • FamilySearch source management added
  • FamilySearch performance greatly enhanced
  • Previously added persons can now be removed from FamilySearch
  • Duplicate family events can now be removed from FamilySearch
  • Better duplicate discovery on FamilySearch
  • Improved FamilySearch change log
  • Improved FamilySearch discussions
  • Other enhancements:
  • Automated backup added
  • Backup manager improved
  • Children are now sorted by birth date when exporting a website
  • Stability improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 7.1.3 (Jan 13, 2014)

  • Sharing reports using OS X Share Sheets improved
  • Date reformatting issues fixed
  • Crash issue fixed using search in the to do or sources edit section
  • Problem adding associated persons fixed
  • Problem displaying reports on OS X Mavericks 10.9.1 fixed

New in MacFamilyTree 7.1.2 (Nov 19, 2013)

  • Custom background images for several website themes
  • Choose from different fonts in many website themes
  • Browser compatibility improved when exporting websites
  • FTP upload speed greatly improved
  • FTP login credentials are now stored in the OS X keychain
  • New options for global search & replace added
  • French manual added
  • Added search field to the FamilySearch results pane
  • Added option to assign labels and bookmarks directly from the FamilySearch results pane
  • Password reset added to MacFamilyTree.com account management
  • Person Report options now displayed correctly on smaller displays
  • Hungarian localization fixed
  • Suppressing automatic last name assignment now works correctly
  • Fixed an issue that could prevent media files to be added to a source
  • Several problems using undo and redo fixed while using the edit mode

New in MacFamilyTree 7.1.1 (Nov 4, 2013)

  • New website themes added
  • Bugfixes exporting websites
  • Localization issues fixed in german, swedish and french

New in MacFamilyTree 7.1 (Oct 23, 2013)

  • Completely new Web Site Export
  • Configureable Themes
  • Live preview
  • Direct FTP upload (secure connections supported)
  • Includes Videos, PDFs and Audio Media
  • Improved user interface
  • Free upload to our web service MacFamilyTree.com
  • Statistics Map (using Apples new Maps, requires OS X 10.9 Mavericks)
  • See where your ancestors lived the longest or married earliest
  • Play slideshows of your ancestors living places across the globe
  • Detailed physical or satellite maps
  • Chart Backdrops
  • Add background images for all charts
  • Includes 50+ backdrop images
  • Import your own images as backdrops
  • Improved FamilySearch integration
  • Revamped FamilySearch user interface
  • FamilySearch Discussions added
  • FamilySearch change history is now available directly from MacFamilyTree
  • Improved FamilySearch integration in the Interactive Tree
  • Private Information:
  • Mark Persons, Events, Families or Sources as private
  • Exclude private information from charts, reports and GEDCOM export
  • User Interface:
  • Refined user interface
  • Improved navigation
  • Entries count is displayed above each list in the edit mode
  • Sections added to family list
  • Sections added to places list
  • Associated To Do items are now displayed directly for each person, family, event or source.
  • Other:
  • Optimized for Mavericks AppNap
  • Faster database opening
  • Better To Do management including larger To Do browser
  • PDFs are included in Person Report
  • Improved Interactive Tree including changed coloring for better readability
  • Better Date Parsing and Date Reformatting
  • Improved GEDCOM Import and Export

New in MacFamilyTree 7.0.14 (Oct 14, 2013)

  • Crash issue when editing families or persons fixed
  • FamilySearch issue fixed handling burial events
  • Date parsing improved

New in MacFamilyTree 7.0.13 (Oct 7, 2013)

  • Downloading marriage events from FamilySearch fixed
  • Hourglass chart now displays correct kinships with grandchildren-in-law
  • Error interpreting multiple spouses on FamilySearch fixed

New in MacFamilyTree 7.0.12 (Sep 30, 2013)

  • FamilySearch issue fixed regarding gender information
  • Sorting in the person merge sheet works correctly now
  • Hang fixed that could occur in the person edit section
  • Rare crash fixed when using FamilySearch

New in MacFamilyTree 7.0.11 (Sep 23, 2013)

  • Several issues fixed uploading information to FamilySearch.org
  • Performance of person matching on FamilySearch improved
  • Sorting issues fixed

New in MacFamilyTree 7.0.10 (Sep 11, 2013)

  • Notes are selected in the correct order when using the Tab key
  • Crash issue corrected when using @ character in person names
  • Selecting existing places improved
  • Hungarian localization improved
  • Performance improvements in the edit mode

New in MacFamilyTree 7.0.9 (Sep 4, 2013)

  • Error uploading information to FamilySearch corrected
  • Crash bug fixed using Web Research
  • Norwegian and Czech localization improved
  • Smaller other bug fixes

New in MacFamilyTree 7.0.8 (Aug 28, 2013)

  • Adding references to sources improved
  • Person merge fixed
  • Critical issue fixed that could prevent saving a database
  • FamilySearch integration stability issues fixed
  • Issue entering sources fixed
  • Czech and Finnish translation improved

New in MacFamilyTree 7.0.7 (Aug 8, 2013)

  • Performance of the edit sections improved
  • Sources are now handled correctly when exporting a partial family tree
  • Sources are now sorted correctly in the edit source section
  • FamilySearch matching improved
  • Several crash issues fixed when working with FamilySearch
  • Polish, Danish and Spanish localization improved
  • Improved user guide

New in MacFamilyTree 7.0.6 (Jul 29, 2013)

  • Performance of reports increased
  • Increased performance when editing sources
  • More web research databases added
  • Date formatting improved
  • Polish translation added
  • Kinship report improved for multiple marriages
  • Several other fixes

New in MacFamilyTree 7.0.5 (Jul 15, 2013)

  • Fixed the To Do wizard to not create duplicate To Do's
  • Many bug fixes for the Timeline chart
  • Person Report improved to include persons age
  • Portuguese User Guide added
  • Several localization improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 7.0.4 (Jul 8, 2013)

  • Merging places improved
  • New name formatting options added
  • Fixed entering LDS temple events for families
  • Importing pictures from iPhoto and Aperture fixed
  • Localizations improved
  • Stability improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 7.0.3 (Jun 29, 2013)

  • Importing and exporting GEDCOM files improved
  • Localization improvements
  • Fixed crash when adding notes to events
  • Sorting events by date fixed when viewing places
  • Login issues to FamilySearch fixed
  • Performance enhancements for larger databases
  • Other stability improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 7.0.2 (Jun 20, 2013)

  • Placeholders in the additional name edit section can now be configured
  • Several stability improvements, especially when using FamilySearch
  • Norwegian translation improved
  • Chart options improved for smaller displays
  • Bug opening the integrated User Guide fixed
  • GEDCOM media export fixed
  • Issue fixed that could prevent saving an open database
  • Support added for LDS status and temple information
  • URL fields for media fixed
  • Many other smaller fixes

New in MacFamilyTree 7.0.1 (Jun 11, 2013)

  • Norwegian localization fixed
  • French localization fixed
  • Swedish localization fixed
  • Alignment fixed in the Notes and Sources sections
  • Fixes for the Plausibility Report
  • FamilySearch login issues fixed
  • Family Quiz localization issues fixed
  • Name Distribution Chart saving issue fixed
  • Several stability improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 7.0 (May 29, 2013)

  • New User Interface
  • iCloud support
  • Rewritten FamilySearch integration
  • New Edit Mode
  • New Virtual Globe
  • New Virtual Tree
  • New Name Distribution Chart
  • New Plausibility Report
  • Support for Associated Persons
  • GEDCOM Import and Export vastly improved
  • Improved Source editing
  • Source Repositories
  • New Backup Manager
  • Countless bug fixes and smaller improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 6.3.9 (May 12, 2013)

  • Fixed saving editable charts
  • Fixed saving editable reports
  • Stability improvements
  • NOTE: IF THE AUTOMATIC UPDATE FAILS, PLEASE MANUALLY DOWNLOAD THE UPDATE FROM www.syniumsoftware.com/macfamilytree. In case there is a warning about insufficient privileges, delete MacFamilyTree from your Applications folder and redownload it from www.syniumsoftware.com. Your family tree databases will not be removed.

New in MacFamilyTree 6.3.8 (Apr 23, 2013)

  • Hungarian Localization fixed
  • GEDCOM importer now correctly imports notes associated with media
  • Several stability improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 6.3.7 (Mar 5, 2013)

  • Chinese Localization fixed
  • Bugfixes for Media Gallery
  • Further bugfixes

New in MacFamilyTree 6.3.6 (Feb 14, 2013)

  • Media Gallery performance improved
  • Several memory leaks fixed
  • Bug fixed that could cause MacFamilyTree to crash

New in MacFamilyTree 6.3.5 (Jan 21, 2013)

  • Performance enhanced
  • Localization updates
  • Fixed wrong saved charts/saved reports counter
  • Auto updater fixed

New in MacFamilyTree 6.3.4 (Jan 12, 2013)

  • Date Parser issues fixed
  • Issue scanning documents from within MacFamilyTree fixed
  • iPhoto / Aperture import improved
  • Several crash issues fixed
  • Localization updates

New in MacFamilyTree 6.3.3c (Nov 12, 2012)

  • Critical Database migration issue in OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard fixed
  • Stability improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 6.3.3 (Nov 12, 2012)

  • Stability improvements
  • Localization update

New in MacFamilyTree 6.3.2 (Nov 3, 2012)

  • Date parser bug corrected preventing from entering leap year dates
  • Events are now sorted correctly when exporting GEDCOM files
  • Several fixes in the My Tree edit pane
  • Saved Reports/Saved Views count is now correctly displayed
  • Localization updates
  • Other minor fixes

New in MacFamilyTree 6.3 (Oct 15, 2012)

  • New: Research Assistant
  • New: Media Gallery
  • Built-In Document Scanning
  • Sandboxed for increased security
  • New Database browser
  • Redesigned Startup Window
  • Share Sheets for Reports and Charts (OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion only)
  • Various chart improvements
  • Sources report improved
  • GEDCOM Import and Export improved
  • Several Bugfixes and minor other improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 6.2.15 (Jul 20, 2012)

  • Critical bug fix for date parsing when using OS X Mountain Lion
  • My Tree pane improved
  • Many fixes publishing Web Sites
  • GEDCOM Export problems fixed concerning place coordinates
  • Several memory leaks fixed
  • Localizations improved

New in MacFamilyTree 6.2.14 (Jul 6, 2012)

  • Enhanced for Retina displays
  • Several bug fixes and minor user interface improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 6.2.13 (Jun 19, 2012)

  • Several Sync bugs fixed
  • Date parser bugs fixed (especially when using BC dates)
  • GEDCOM Import and Export problems solved

New in MacFamilyTree 6.2.12 (Jun 2, 2012)

  • GEDCOM Importer issues fixed
  • Bug fixed preventing FamilySearch Login
  • Many other minor issues fixed

New in MacFamilyTree 6.2.11 (May 2, 2012)

  • Birth place is now shown in the fan chart
  • Exporting and importing GEDCOM place coordinates improved
  • Web Research printing added
  • Bug preventing text for sources fixed
  • Importing high-resolution PNGs fixed
  • Fixes in the kinship report
  • Localization updates

New in MacFamilyTree 6.2.10 (Apr 19, 2012)

  • More Fan Chart configuration options added
  • Database Maintenance improved
  • Many Tree Chart fixes
  • Fixes in the Family Quiz
  • GEDCOM Importer compatibilty improved

New in MacFamilyTree 6.2.9 (Apr 4, 2012)

  • Fixed a bug preventing images to show up correctly

New in MacFamilyTree 6.2.8 (Mar 26, 2012)

  • Several bugs fixed editing notes and source text
  • Improved behavior saving and closing documents
  • Several other bugfixes

New in MacFamilyTree 6.2.7 (Mar 16, 2012)

  • New Websites added to the Web Research function
  • GEDCOM Export improved
  • Performance improved
  • Several crash bugs fixed
  • Alignment in the My Tree pane improved
  • Minor UI improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 6.2.6 (Feb 28, 2012)

  • Error corrected that prevented some users from saving databases
  • Wrong places count display corrected
  • Several other minor fixes

New in MacFamilyTree 6.2.5 (Feb 17, 2012)

  • GEDCOM Import and Export improved
  • Several Sync issues with MobileFamilyTree Pro corrected
  • Memory usage reduced
  • State is now correctly shown in the Person Report
  • Several fixes for Mac OS X Lion
  • Minor user interface improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 6.2.4 (Jan 20, 2012)

  • Several issues importing media files from GEDCOM fixed
  • Stability improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 6.2.3 (Jan 13, 2012)

  • Several fixes and improvements in the GEDCOM Exporter and Importer
  • Sources List now shows source abbreviations
  • Web Media improved
  • Date parsing improved
  • Descendant Chart improved
  • Performance of the Tree Chart improved
  • Several other bug fixes

New in MacFamilyTree 6.2.2 (Jan 3, 2012)

  • Database maintenance improved
  • Better display of events in the My Tree pane
  • GEDCOM Import and export improved
  • New preferences added for the startup window
  • Kekulé numbers now available in the Fan Chart and Narrative Report
  • Several crash bugs fixed
  • Several fixes in the Tree Chart

New in MacFamilyTree 6.2.1 (Dec 16, 2011)

  • Database migration crash fixed
  • Smaller user interface improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 6.2 (Dec 13, 2011)

  • New Tree Chart showing all connected persons in a tree
  • Family Quiz added
  • New Source Report
  • New ToDo Report
  • New Ahnentafel Report
  • TItle and Creation Date can be displayed in all charts
  • Improved Narrative Report
  • Improved Kinship Report
  • Improved Place Management
  • County added
  • Improved assignment of already entered places
  • Improved display of place names in reports and charts
  • Several improvements and fixes in the GEDCOM import and export
  • GEDCOM identifiers are retained after import and export
  • Improved Media export
  • File names for Media is retained after import and export
  • Improved compatibility with other genealogy apps
  • More Person Facts added
  • Sources can now be bookmarked
  • User Interface improved
  • Several performance enhancements

New in MacFamilyTree 6.1.5 (Sep 12, 2011)

  • Slideshow can now be controlled by using the keyboard
  • FamilySearch login problem solved
  • Fixes for the Narrative Report
  • Sync problems solved
  • Date Parser improved
  • Person List Report improved
  • Other minor fixes

New in MacFamilyTree 6.1.4 (Aug 23, 2011)

  • New Database Maintenance function to show unparseable dates in your database
  • Database Maintenance improved
  • Several Mac OS X Lion user interface improvements
  • Date parsing improved
  • Errors in the kinship report fixed for nephews and nieces
  • Several bug fixes

New in MacFamilyTree 6.1.3 (Aug 9, 2011)

  • Major performance enhancements for Mac OS X Lion
  • Improved Family Tree edit mode
  • Now supports Fullscreen Mode from Mac OS X Lion
  • More options added exporting GEDCOMs
  • Greatly improved compatibility importing GEDCOM files
  • Several bug fixes

New in MacFamilyTree 6.1.2 (Jul 2, 2011)

  • Database migration fixes from previous versions
  • Soundex calculation improved
  • Several other bug fixes

New in MacFamilyTree 6.1.1 (Jun 30, 2011)

  • Kinship degrees can now be shown in the Family Tree edit mode
  • Field for date added when assigning to do's
  • Database migration issue fixed
  • Better error messages
  • everal bugfixes

New in MacFamilyTree 6.1 (Jun 28, 2011)

  • Sync:
  • Keep Mobile, Desktop Macs, iPhones and iPads in total sync
  • Supports syncing across different Macs
  • Changes from different devices are merged when syncing
  • New Sync Organizer to manage devices
  • Complete conflict management, when two devices changed the same database entry
  • Improved Charts:
  • New Double Ancestor Chart
  • Improved Ancestor Chart (now displaying partners ancestors)
  • Improved Hourglass Chart (now displaying partners ancestors, improved layout)
  • Kinships can now be displayed within all charts
  • Fan Chart can now be displayed for Ancestors or Descendants
  • Much better line alignment for charts
  • Greatly improved performance across the board
  • Improved Reports:
  • Completely new Kinship Report with precise options and more degrees of kinship.
  • Improved Person Report (better charts, improved kinship)
  • Improved Birthday Report
  • Sources are shown in the Narrative Report
  • New Database Format:
  • New bundle format for databases
  • Much improved load and save times for databases with many media entries
  • Better Time Machine backup compatibility
  • Merging:
  • Merge function added for merging persons
  • Merge conflict detection and resolving
  • Much improved person duplicate search
  • Other:
  • New labels menu for quickly accessing labels and assigned objects
  • Vastly improved user interface
  • Command Key can be used to switch between tabbed panes
  • Better PDF support
  • Improved icons for gender, bookmarks and events
  • New events for Civil Partnership and Separation
  • Existing to-do´s can be assigned to objects directly from the object's pane
  • My Tree Edit Pane now displays birth and death date as an option
  • GEDCOM importer optimized for memory usage and performance
  • Pictures from Safari can be dragged to MacFamilyTree's media pane
  • Numerous bug fixes
  • Many memory optimizations

New in MacFamilyTree 6.1 Beta 15 (Jun 14, 2011)

  • Several fixes syncing Macs
  • GEDCOM importer improvements
  • Localization updates

New in MacFamilyTree 6.1 Beta 14 (Jun 14, 2011)

  • Several fixes resolving conflicts
  • Fixes syncing Macs
  • Improved sorting exporting web sites
  • Minor user interface improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 6.1 Beta 13 (May 30, 2011)

  • Many fixes synchronizing Macs
  • Notes and Media can be entered for Families directly from the Family Tree view
  • Existing To Do's can be assigned from an objects pane
  • Object counters in the functions list improved
  • Several other bug fixes and smaller improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 6.1 Beta 12 (May 19, 2011)

  • Much improved Source Selection window
  • Family events are now correctly sorted in all charts
  • Change date display improved
  • Media browser now shows the correct media count
  • Sync menu fixed
  • Several web export fixes
  • Localization updates

New in MacFamilyTree 6.1 Beta 11 (May 17, 2011)

  • Media pictures are now shown in the bookmark menu
  • Person Report improved
  • Events Report improved
  • Several fixes syncing Macs
  • Fixes when downloading information from FamilySearch.org
  • Undo/Redo fixed
  • Localization updates

New in MacFamilyTree 6.1 Beta 10 (May 12, 2011)

  • Several fixes syncing databases
  • Bookmarks menu improved
  • Person notes are now shown in the Genogram
  • Localization updates

New in MacFamilyTree 6.1 Beta 9 (May 9, 2011)

  • New labels menu added in the title bar
  • Fixes syncing your tree to other macs
  • Localization updates
  • User interface improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 6.1 Beta 8 (May 6, 2011)

  • Event descriptions can now be directly edited in the Family Tree edit mode
  • Several bug fixes
  • Database migration fixed for tree files from MacFamilyTree 5.4 and prior
  • Localization updates

New in MacFamilyTree 6.1 Beta 7 (May 4, 2011)

  • New Sync Menu in the title bar of each family tree to quickly access the syncing function between Macs
  • Improved Bookmarks menu
  • Several bug fixes
  • Localization updates

New in MacFamilyTree 6.1 Beta 6 (May 3, 2011)

  • Fixes for the Web Export
  • Localization updates

New in MacFamilyTree 6.1 Beta 5 (Apr 27, 2011)

  • Bugfixes for the Marriage List
  • Web export now displays the correct localizations
  • Localization fixes
  • Smaller user interface improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 6.1 Beta 4 (Apr 22, 2011)

  • Database migration fixed for users migrating from MacFamilyTree 5.x
  • Fixes for the Web Export
  • Localization updates

New in MacFamilyTree 6.1 Beta 3 (Apr 19, 2011)

  • Localization Updates
  • Fixes in the My Tree Edit Pane
  • Stability improvements for Mac OS X Lion

New in MacFamilyTree 6.1 Beta 2 (Apr 18, 2011)

  • Fixes in the new Kinship Analyser
  • Stability improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 6.1 Beta 1 (Apr 15, 2011)

  • Sync between Macs using the new Sync Organizer
  • New Chart: Double Ancestor Chart
  • Improved Charts: Kinships are shown in each chart
  • Improved Fan Chart: Can show descendants or ancestors
  • New Database Format: Much improved load times, performance and Time Machine compatibility
  • New Kinship Report: Totally rewritten from scratch
  • Improved Person Report and Birthday Report
  • New Person Merge feature
  • Several User Interface improvements
  • Many performance and memory optimizations

New in MacFamilyTree 6.0.12 (Jan 26, 2011)

  • Several stability improvements
  • Localization fixes

New in MacFamilyTree 6.0.11 (Jan 22, 2011)

  • Problems uploading to MacFamilyTree.com fixed
  • General Web Export fixes
  • Localization updates

New in MacFamilyTree 6.0.10 (Nov 19, 2010)

  • Vastly improved Fan Chart rendering and performance
  • Many fixes in the Family Tree editor
  • Performance and stability improvements when importing GEDCOM files
  • Fixes for calculating Kekule numbers
  • Complete Dutch Manual added
  • Localization updates
  • Smaller other bugfixes

New in MacFamilyTree 6.0.9 (Nov 5, 2010)

  • Married name is now shown in all lists
  • Fixed a bug which prevented notes from showing correctly in charts
  • Several bugfixes when printing charts
  • Bugfix saving a fan chart
  • Launch time improved

New in MacFamilyTree 6.0.8 (Oct 28, 2010)

  • Many fixes in the GEDCOM Exporter
  • Several localization fixes
  • Performance of the charting system improved
  • Fixes for the Web/HTML export
  • Minor user interface improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 6.0.7 (Oct 13, 2010)

  • MacFamilyTree now reopens the function pane that was open prior on startup
  • Fixed a bug that prevented assigning labels and bookmarks to media
  • Several fixes for the MacFamilyTree.com web upload function
  • Stability improvements when running MacFamilyTree in 64 Bit mode in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
  • Minor user interface enhancements

New in MacFamilyTree 6.0.6 (Sep 30, 2010)

  • Many bugfixes in editing panes
  • Crash bug fixed when adding existing persons to a family
  • Fixes in the family group report

New in MacFamilyTree 6.0.5 (Sep 27, 2010)

  • MyHeritage added to web research function
  • Several crash bugs fixed
  • Improved Performance
  • MobileFamilyTree sync fixes
  • Localization updates

New in MacFamilyTree 6.0.4 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Assigning labels to families or media fixed
  • Media loading performance improved
  • Database migration fixes
  • Other bugfixes

New in MacFamilyTree 6.0.3 (Sep 6, 2010)

  • Major database changes for increased performance
  • Fixes for the Apple Aperture image picker
  • Several user interface bugs fixed
  • Images can now be rotated directly in MacFamilyTree
  • Fixes and performance improvements for nearly all charts

New in MacFamilyTree 6.0.2 (Aug 13, 2010)

  • Support for Apple Aperture added
  • New and greatly improved iPhoto import sheet
  • Support for new web sites in the Web Research pane added
  • Family Tree edit mode can now display a maximum of 6 generations instead of 4
  • Several other enhancements for the Family Tree edit mode
  • Kinship report fixes
  • Date parser improved
  • Several fixes for Mac OS X 10.5 users
  • Smaller user interface improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 6.0.1 (Aug 2, 2010)

  • Fixes in the Narrative Report
  • Married name is now shown in all charts
  • French quickstart guide added
  • Timeline and Fan Chart are now saved and restored correctly in the graphics editor
  • Sorting fixed for the Web Site Export
  • Larger source selection window

New in MacFamilyTree 6.0 (Jul 28, 2010)

  • New Family Tree pane:
  • Replaces the Family Assistant with a much more detailed and versatile edit mode
  • Marriage Dates, Person Media, all types of events and notes can now be entered directly in the new edit mode
  • Handles complex relations (e.g. multiple wives) much more accurately than the previous family assistant
  • Group persons by generation using colored rows
  • Different coloring mode for gender, labels or family relations
  • FamilySearch Integration allows online research of ancestors
  • New User Interface:
  • Features are arranged more clearly
  • Browser-like navigation between panes
  • Most parts of the User Interface are now augmented by Apple’s Core Animation
  • Improved palette layout and reordering
  • More concise user interface layout for charting and reporting views
  • Completely Rewritten Charting:
  • Totally rewritten 2D charts
  • New Relationship Chart visualizing the relation between two selected persons
  • New Ancestor Chart supports up to 200 Generations
  • New Descendant Chart with much better alignment
  • New Hourglass Chart showing Ancestors, Partners and Descendants of a specific person
  • Ancestor, Descendant and Hourglass Chart can be displayed from left to right, right to left, top to bottom and bottom up
  • New Fan Chart offering more generations and better text layout
  • New charts editor capable of single-page or multi-page layouts
  • New statistics: Place of Birth and Country of Birth
  • Create print-ready PDFs or PNGs
  • New user interface for charts, a person list is always displayed to the right of a chart, allowing quick selection of a person right in place
  • Greatly improved performance when compiling charts. You can browse through your charts in realtime
  • Support for gestures on MacBook trackpads for zooming in and out
  • Reports:
  • New User Interface for Reports similar to the new Charts user interface
  • New Narrative Report
  • New Marriage List Report
  • Improved Person List Report which can now display groups depending on the selected sorting order
  • Improved Person Report now featuring optional charts
  • Improved Family Group Report now featuring optional charts
  • Improved editing of Reports
  • New Places Management:
  • All places you enter in the MacFamilyTree database is now listed in a new edit pane
  • Assigning coordinates to places is much easier
  • Merge places directly in the edit mode
  • Assigning known places to events can now be accomplished with a few clicks
  • Maps in the Persons Editor allow you to quickly review where a person has lived
  • New To Do Management:
  • Create and assign To-Dos to any object in MacFamilyTree from within most edit modes
  • Let MacFamilyTree 6 remind you of tasks that have yet to be done
  • Set priorities and To-Do types
  • Have MacFamilyTree automatically create To-Dos for missing names and events
  • FamilySearch Integration:
  • Access to FamilySearch
  • Update on FamilySearch
  • Direct integration into MacFamilyTree
  • Notifications for updated persons or newly added information
  • Automatic background matching of persons
  • Certified by FamilySearch.org for access, update and sync
  • GEDCOM Import and Export improved:
  • Considerably more compatible with other genealogy applications which export non-standard GEDCOM files
  • Partial GEDCOM export improved to export all connected persons from a specific person or all ancestors or descendants
  • Support for ANSEL-formatted GEDCOM files
  • The GEDCOM importer’s performance has been improved drastically
  • Better error log when importing GEDCOMs
  • Import error log can now be saved for later reference
  • GEDCOMs can now be exported in UTF-8, UTF-16, Plain ASCII, Mac OS Roman or Windows Latin Charsets
  • Media can be reconverted to a more compressed format when exporting GEDCOMs
  • LDS Support:
  • LDS Support for Person- and Family Events
  • All current temple codes available
  • Media:
  • Fullscreen Slideshow implemented either for all media found in a tree file or for specific persons’ media.
  • Narrative Report included in the Slideshow
  • Using Apples Core Animation fur beautiful full screen display
  • Cover-Flow like picture viewer for person, family, event and source media
  • Web Search:
  • Integrated Web Search feature to quickly search the Internet
  • Direct access to FindAGrave.com, FootNote.com, Ancestry.com, WorldVitalRecords.com and Google
  • Directly assign found information to a person using the contextual menu
  • Improved Labels:
  • Assign as many labels as you like to Persons, Families, Sources, Events or Media
  • Labels, as well as bookmarks, can be assigned in all list views through the contextual menu (accessible by right-clicking on a row in a table)
  • Much more user friendly labels palette
  • Performance:
  • MacFamilyTree 6 is now executed in 64 Bit under Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard on recent Mac models for improved performance
  • Performance is improved throughout the whole application, especially for larger tree files
  • Media Browser performance is greatly improved for larger databases
  • Other:
  • A start person can be defined. This person is used as the root person in all views when no other person is selected
  • New startup window showing new tutorials and "how-to"s
  • Multiselection in the person list, family list, sources list, places list and to-do list
  • Drawing speed of the Virtual Tree dramatically improved
  • Sorting order for names can now be specified independently from the name format used to display names
  • Married Names can be entered directly in each edit view

New in MacFamilyTree 6.0 Public Beta 8 (Jul 26, 2010)

  • Full featured User Guide now available from the help menu or the startup window
  • Several localization updates
  • Fixed issues on PowerPC based Macs
  • Smaller user interface fixes

New in MacFamilyTree 6.0 Public Beta 7 (Jul 23, 2010)

  • Several User Interface improvements
  • GEDCOM Importer now handles census and age tags correctly
  • After a GEDCOM import, the document was incorrectly marked as having changes
  • Date Parser improved for date ranges
  • Description of events are now shown in all charts
  • News and Tutorials improved in the startup window
  • Improved launch time

New in MacFamilyTree 6.0 Public Beta 6 (Jul 20, 2010)

  • Chart generation fixes
  • Descendant Chart top to bottom or bottom to top layout improved
  • Fixed a bug in the Media Pane that could lead to a crash
  • Count Badge added for referenced objects assigned to a ToDo
  • Localization fixes

New in MacFamilyTree 6.0 Public Beta 5 (Jul 15, 2010)

  • Database migration issue fixed for older Databases prior to Version 5.2
  • GEDCOM Importer improved
  • MacFamilyTree.com upload issue fixed
  • Changes to the date format preferences are now applied immediately
  • FamilySearch integration fixes
  • Smaller user interface improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 6.0 Public Beta 4 (Jul 12, 2010)

  • Many localization fixes
  • Rare GEDCOM importer crash fixed
  • Improved auto updater added
  • Date Parser improved

New in MacFamilyTree 6.0 Public Beta 3 (Jul 10, 2010)

  • Fixes in the Family Tree edit view
  • Several bugs in the GEDCOM importer fixed
  • Date format handling improved
  • Rare crash bug in Mac OS X 10.5 fixed

New in MacFamilyTree 5.7.7 (Jul 1, 2010)

  • Bugs in the source management fixed
  • MobileFamilyTree sync fixes for file names with special characters
  • Minor user interface improvements
  • Localization updates

New in MacFamilyTree 5.7.6 (May 26, 2010)

  • Multiple bugfixes when printing to multiple pages in the graphics editor
  • Norwegian translation updated
  • Improved GEDCOM parsing for person and family events
  • MobileMe Web Site Export improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 5.7.5 (May 14, 2010)

  • MobileFamilyTree Sync improved (Support for the upcoming MobileFamilyTree iPad Version)
  • Brazilian-Portugese localization updated
  • Bug fixes for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
  • Other minor fixes

New in MacFamilyTree 5.7.4 (Apr 29, 2010)

  • Several sync problems with MobileFamilyTree 2 fixed (iPhone/iPod touch Version of MacFamilyTree)
  • Media handling of various image formats improved
  • MobileMe/iDisk Upload for Web Pages improved
  • Several smaller bug fixes

New in MacFamilyTree 5.7.3 (Apr 9, 2010)

  • Web Export now includes text of sources
  • Sources are now correctly sorted by date when generating web pages
  • Many localization fixes
  • Smaller user interface improvements
  • Stability improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 5.7.2 (Mar 31, 2010)

  • Events Preference Pane fixed
  • Several Localization fixes
  • Stability improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 5.7.1 (Mar 27, 2010)

  • Bug fixes for the Family Group Report
  • Bug fixes for Video and Audio Recording
  • Fix for an registration/unlocking error some customers experienced
  • Several other minor bug fixes

New in MacFamilyTree 5.7 (Mar 25, 2010)

  • New Fact Management: Manage personal facts like possessions, social security number, contact information, eye colour or skin colour and so on.
  • New Source Management: Assign source credibility per reference, enter custom texts or assign specific pages in multi-page documents to referenced objects
  • New Audio and Video Recording: Record Audio and Video (Webcam required) within Person Profiles, Family Entries or Sources
  • New Kinship Report: Better overview of relationships, step- and adoptive relations are handled correctly
  • New Family Group Report: Generate a report displaying all relevant information about a certain family
  • New Auto Updater: MacFamilyTree 5.7 is the last update you'll have to download manually. From now on, the new updater will do the entire download and installation for you.
  • Performance enhancements
  • Multiple Marriages should no longer cause persons to overlap in Virtual Tree
  • Bugfixes and improved compatibility with non-standard GEDCOM data in GEDCOM importer
  • Collapsable topics in the main window functions list
  • Further improvements and fixes

New in MacFamilyTree 5.6.8 (Jan 16, 2010)

  • Completely new User Guide localized in English, French and German.
  • Date Picker works correctly now in all localizations.
  • Bug fixes for MobileFamilyTree 2 Sync.
  • Several other bug fixes.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.6.7 (Dec 4, 2009)

  • Norwegian localization added.
  • Several bug fixes for the MobileFamilyTree 2 sync.
  • Smaller other bug fixes.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.6.6 (Nov 17, 2009)

  • Several fixes and improvements for the coordinate lookup for the Virtual Globe.
  • Crash issue fixed for Mac OS X 10.5.
  • Database migration issue fixed for older Version 4 databases.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.6.5 (Nov 3, 2009)

  • Improved date handling and fixed caching algorithm which could lead to wrong sorting of events.
  • Date format pane crash bug fixed.
  • Russian localization added.
  • Minor user interface improvements.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.6.4 (Sep 11, 2009)

  • Fixes for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
  • Improved GEDCOM Importer.
  • Minor cosmetic fixes.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.6.3 (Aug 31, 2009)

  • Important Bug Fixes for Snow Leopard
  • Crash fixed while viewing saved charts
  • Other stability problems fixed
  • Web Export working again under Snow Leopard

New in MacFamilyTree 5.6.1 (Aug 7, 2009)

  • Performance improvements for all Charts.
  • Resizing problem for OpenGL based charts fixed.
  • A bug preventing picture record using the integrated iSight has been fixed.
  • Fixes in the Database Maintenance Pane.
  • Person Merge enhanced.
  • Many bugfixes for the MacFamilyTree.com upload and MobileMe upload.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.6 (Jul 9, 2009)

  • New Virtual Tree:
  • Drastic performance enhancements by using multiple processors/cores when available.
  • Much improved 3d alignment, especially in complex scenarios.
  • Can only show partial subtrees within a database.
  • Displays pictures of persons directly in the 3d tree when available.
  • New palette to directly jump to near ancestors or descendants.
  • Improved Media Management:
  • One picture, audio, web page or video can now be assigned to multiple persons, families, events or sources.
  • Persons or families can be tagged on group fotos for easy identification.
  • Pictures can be edited from within MacFamilyTree (cropping, hue control, saturation and noise reduction).
  • Images with embedded DPI information are now handled correctly and are displayed in full resolution.
  • Media can now be bookmarked as it has already been possible for Persons or Families.
  • Improved playback of Video and Audio media entries.
  • Virtual Globe:
  • Improved rendering performance on slower Macs.
  • More detailed map.
  • Other Improvements:
  • Text-based Descendant and Ancestor Reports are now available in the Person Report.
  • Full screen mode for the Virtual Tree and the Virtual Globe.
  • All dialogs or sheets have been improved to a consistent and user friendly look.
  • Further performance enhancements throughout the whole application as well as a reduced memory footprint.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.5.8 (Jun 25, 2009)

  • Many fixes for the Person Merge Feature.
  • Person Merge can now be accessed from the Family List as well.
  • Many other bug fixes.
  • Minor user interface enhancements.
  • Localization fixes.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.5.7 (Jun 16, 2009)

  • Important stability fixes.
  • Performance of the Statistics Chart vastly improved.
  • Note palette improved.
  • Localization fixes.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.5.6 (Jun 10, 2009)

  • Bug fixes in the Family Assistant.
  • Fixed a rare crash bug in the Edit Mode.
  • Improvements in the Note Palette.
  • Localization bugs fixed.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.5.5 (Jun 5, 2009)

  • New coordinate lookup function accessible from the special menu to find coordinates for place in the MacFamilyTree Database used in the Virtual Globe.
  • Improvements for the person merge function.
  • Countries can be edited directly in the person or family event pane now.
  • Labels added to the Oldest Ancestor pane.
  • Further bugfixes for the coordinate lookup and the coordinate assignment.
  • Many smaller interface improvements.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.5.4 (May 29, 2009)

  • New Pane in the person edit mode showing the oldest ancestors of a person.
  • New Statistic: Years between marriage and the birth of children.
  • Fixes for the coordinate lookup.
  • Database migration from older versions fixed.
  • Many fixes importing and exporting GEDCOM files.
  • Search function can now search for additional names of a person.
  • Additional names are now shown in the Web Export.
  • Other fixes in the Web Export.
  • Media handling improved.
  • Other smaller fixes and improvements.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.5.3 (May 25, 2009)

  • New person merge functions to search for duplicates in your database.
  • Search duplicates for either a single person or in your whole database.
  • Improved GEDCOM merge when adding a GEDCOM file.
  • Full chinese localization added (Simplified Chinese).
  • Many bug fixes and minor improvements.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.5.2 (May 13, 2009)

  • Portuguese Localization added.
  • Fixes for Mac OS X 10.5.7 Leopard (Family Assistant was not showing links correctly).
  • Coordinates management fixed.
  • Improved Performance of the Virtual Globe.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.5.1 (May 11, 2009)

  • Fixes for the Virtual Globe.
  • Performance of the Virtual Tree improved.
  • Many fixes in the GEDCOM importer.
  • Other user interface fixes.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.5 Beta 5 (Apr 30, 2009)

  • Person List can be configured to show separate columns for name components.
  • Other user interface bugs fixed.
  • Performance Enhancements when opening Databases.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.5 Beta 4 (Apr 27, 2009)

  • Several bugs in the Palette Configuration fixed.
  • Other user interface bugs fixed.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.5 Beta 3 (Apr 24, 2009)

  • Many problems fixed in the GEDCOM importer.
  • Speed improvements while opening databases.
  • Localization fixes.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.5 Beta 2 (Apr 23, 2009)

  • New: World History Database.
  • Displays all Events in your Database in a historical context.
  • Our predefined database features categorized historical events in 22 topics.
  • Additional events can be easily added and edited from a dedicated Preferences section.
  • Add custom regional and global historical data.
  • Historical data is available in Edit Mode, for each person and family. Historical information will be displayed in Time Line view, Person Reports and on Web pages generated using our powerful Web HTML Export.
  • Fully localized integration with Wikipedia (Internet connection required).
  • New: Completely Rewritten Database Engine.
  • Dramatic speed increase throughout MacFamilyTree, especially on Macs running Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).
  • Full size images and large PDFs are stored in the MacFamilyTree database without compromising overall performance.
  • Changes to the MacFamilyTree database are now saved much quicker.
  • Reduced memory footprint, especially for larger databases.
  • New: Search.
  • Rewritten, fine-grained search with a new user interface.
  • Search for Persons, Families and Sources with many options to narrow down and customize your search criteria.
  • New: Additional Charts Available for Statistics View.
  • Age of Children at Parents' Death.
  • Age of Person at Partner's Death.
  • Month of Marriage.
  • Other Improvements & Fixes.
  • Added Auto-Save.
  • GEDCOM Importer improved.
  • Improved Black & White theme for Charts.
  • Wood style now selectable in MacFamilyTree's Preferences, as an option for the program's entire user interface.
  • The Ancestor Chart can now be flipped as an upside-down view.
  • Added a parents of person popup menu to the man and woman palette.
  • Editing of saved Reports improved.
  • Person Report now includes notes from person events.
  • Many user interface refinements.
  • Fixes in Beta 2: GEDCOM Importer improved for notes, Name Format change working again, further performance enhancements.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.5 Beta (Apr 20, 2009)

  • New: World History Database.
  • Displays all Events in your Database in a historical context.
  • Our predefined database features categorized historical events in 22 topics.
  • Additional events can be easily added and edited from a dedicated Preferences section.
  • Add custom regional and global historical data.
  • Historical data is available in Edit Mode, for each person and family. Historical information will be displayed in Time Line view, Person Reports and on Web pages generated using our powerful Web HTML Export.
  • Fully localized integration with Wikipedia (Internet connection required).
  • New: Completely Rewritten Database Engine.
  • Dramatic speed increase throughout MacFamilyTree, especially on Macs running Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).
  • Full size images and large PDFs are stored in the MacFamilyTree database without compromising overall performance.
  • Changes to the MacFamilyTree database are now saved much quicker.
  • Reduced memory footprint, especially for larger databases.
  • New: Search.
  • Rewritten, fine-grained search with a new user interface.
  • Search for Persons, Families and Sources with many options to narrow down and customize your search criteria.
  • New: Additional Charts Available for Statistics View.
  • Age of Children at Parents' Death.
  • Age of Person at Partner's Death.
  • Month of Marriage.
  • Other Improvements & Fixes.
  • Added Auto-Save.
  • GEDCOM Importer improved.
  • Improved Black & White theme for Charts.
  • Wood style now selectable in MacFamilyTree's Preferences, as an option for the program's entire user interface.
  • The Ancestor Chart can now be flipped as an upside-down view.
  • Added a parents of person popup menu to the man and woman palette.
  • Editing of saved Reports improved.
  • Many user interface refinements.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.4.2 (Mar 17, 2009)

  • Fixes in the Family Assistant (alignment improved, pictures now always show up).
  • Fixes in the Web Export.
  • Several localization fixes.
  • Minor Interface improvements.
  • Performance of all 3D charts improved.
  • General stability improvements.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.4.1 (Mar 10, 2009)

  • Kinship Report expanded by two generations.
  • Additional Names are now shown in the Person Report.
  • Fixes in the Family Assistant.
  • Dutch localization added.
  • Fixes for other localizations.
  • Many general bug fixes and stability improvements.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.4.0 (Mar 2, 2009)

  • New Web Page Export
  • New: display a Context Chart on every person page, showing close relatives for the selected person
  • New: Kinship Report available on each person page
  • All sources in a tree file are exported including citations
  • Completely new web page design and enhanced workflow
  • Additional and improved themes available
  • Web pages can be exported in different localizations
  • Tree Statistics available for each web page
  • Improved Charts
  • Optionally display Notes for each chart
  • Fonts can be customized for each chart
  • Charts editing improved
  • Enhanced rendering performance on-screen
  • Improved printing
  • Virtual Globe/Coordinates Lookup.
  • Vastly improved coordinates lookup.
  • Larger and more detailed locations database.
  • Country and state information displayed for search results: more easily identify specific places.
  • Coordinates are propagated to other events in the same city/country.
  • Reports.
  • Events can be optionally excluded in the places and event report.
  • Improved printing and PDF export.
  • Each report can be saved as a HTML file.
  • Other.
  • Improved alignment of individuals in the Family Assitant.
  • Quick Navigation view now available in the family edit mode tooImproved option windows for Charts, Reports and edit modes.
  • New startup window with direct access to the recently opened files.
  • Improved date parser which handles date ranges (z.B. »BET 2001 and 2002«) correctly.
  • Virtual Tree alignment and performance improved.
  • The Virtual Tree now displays marriage and divorce dates.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.3.10 (Feb 5, 2009)

  • Bug fixes for the timeline.
  • Stability improvements.
  • Localization fixes for English and Swedish.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.3.9 (Jan 26, 2009)

  • Swedish Localization added.
  • Other Localization issues fixed.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.3.8 (Jan 14, 2009)

  • Date picker for date text fields.
  • Date format parsing improved.
  • Fixes for the Virtual Tree.
  • Search Pane can be opened with Command-F.
  • Database Maintenance fixes.
  • Other minor fixes.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.3.7 (Dec 25, 2008)

  • Full English user guide added
  • Fixes and many performance enhancements in the Virtual Tree
  • Minor bug fixes and other minor improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 5.3.6 (Dec 12, 2008)

  • Alignment in the Virtual Tree vastly improved.
  • Generation and rendering performance of the Virtual Tree improved.
  • Virtual Globe marks events out of the date range.
  • MobileFamilyTree sync improved (MobileFamilyTree is an iPhone/iPod touch client for MacFamilyTree available in the Apple AppStore).
  • Toolbar in the main window is configureable now.
  • GEDCOM importer improved.
  • Various other minor fixes and improvements.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.3.5 (Dec 8, 2008)

  • Database Maintenance improved: Names can be now reformatted into different styles.
  • Virtual Tree can be saved as a high resolution PNG now.
  • The user interface can now be configured to show Partner 1/Partner 2 instead of Husband/Wife.
  • Improved automatic date range calculation for the Timeline pane.
  • Improved Statistics pane.
  • Other minor fixes and improvements.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.3.4 (Nov 24, 2008)

  • Improved Timeline including a new look and automatic date range adjustment
  • Improved Statistics with new modes (age when marrying, age of mother and father at birth etc)
  • Better Web Export showing families and persons grouped by last name
  • Gedcom Importer and Exporter improved
  • Many minor fixes and improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 5.3.3 (Nov 15, 2008)

  • Improved Timeline Chart including a new time bar
  • More Generations supported in the Ancestor Chart
  • Improved GEDCOM Importer
  • Bug fixes in the Date Parser
  • Search function improved
  • Localization fixes
  • Many smaller improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 5.3.2 (Oct 31, 2008)

  • Greatly improved performance in mostly all areas.
  • Improved GEDCOM importer including a warning dialog showing errors and not parseable dates.
  • Improved GEDCOM exporter which supports date reformatting.
  • Date Handling improved to support more date formats.
  • Improved handling of date prefixes when using the date reformatting feature.
  • Person and Family lists show entries with missing coordinates for events.
  • More customizable user interface colors in the preferences.
  • Many more bugfixes and minor enhancements.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.3.1 (Oct 24, 2008)

  • Support for Multitouch Gestures of the new trackpads build into the new MacBook, MacBook Pro or MacBook Air
  • Coordinates Lookup improved now displaying already entered coordinates first
  • Localization fixes in the kinship report and the french translation
  • Spanish localization added
  • Many other minor fixes

New in MacFamilyTree 5.3 (Oct 20, 2008)

  • new WebKit-based Reports can be saved and are individually customizable for enhanced screen and print output
  • rewritten Kinship Report for reliable representation of complex relationships
  • improved Family Assistant: better visibility, partnerships with or without marriage, biological or adopted children, generation-dependent coloring of person icons
  • new Family and Person Bookmarks to keep track of current research; Bookmarks can also be used for enhanced navigation in the Virtual Tree
  • new interactive Events list for the Virtual Globe
  • improved Desendant Chart for better visibility and printed output
  • much improved Search for persons and places in your family tree
  • improved quick navigation labels precisely define the context in which you are currently working or browsing
  • better handling of date format inconsistencies and individual notations for incomplete date entries and/or modifiers
  • more reliable workflow for coordinates lookup
  • improved GEDCOM import and export for better compatibility with other genealogy applications
  • huge pictures can now optionally be downscaled on import
  • improved print and screen representation at high zoom ratios; i.e. when zooming far out to view a big chart in its entirety, quality and visibility of small detail is now much better
  • improved integration with Apple's MobileMe and our own MacFamilyTree.com internet services
  • further improved user interface, performance and stability
  • new Picture Synchronization with MobileFamilyTree 1.3: MobileFamilyTree is a separate and optional companion product, available for iPhone and iPod touch from the Apple App Store.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.3 RC4 (Oct 17, 2008)

  • Fixed and issue in the Family Assistant not applying birth or death dates.
  • Fixed several localization issues.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.3 RC3 (Oct 16, 2008)

  • Coordinates Lookup for the Virtual Globe improved.
  • Fixes in the Kinship Report (failed to generate for some users).
  • Various user interface improvements.
  • Localization fixes.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.3 RC2 (Oct 13, 2008)

  • Fixes in the Kinship Report.
  • Improved Bookmarking Dialog.
  • General Fixes in the Reporting System.
  • Auto Competition improved.
  • Many smaller improvements.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.3 RC1 (Oct 9, 2008)

  • Reworked Descendant Chart.
  • Improved Kinship Report displaying more generations.
  • Family Events are now correctly displayed in the Person Report.
  • Alignment improved in the Virtual Tree.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.3 Beta 6 (Oct 6, 2008)

  • Fixes and localization updates for the kinship report.
  • Improved MobileMe web site upload.
  • Manage bookmarks dialog improved.
  • Many other smaller fixes and improvements.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.3 Beta 5 (Oct 1, 2008)

  • Improved "Person's Family" Palette.
  • More kinship degrees added.
  • Many other smaller improvements and fixes.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.3 Beta 4 (Sep 25, 2008)

  • Kinship Report improved to correctly handle multiple marriages.
  • Virtual Tree improved: Bookmarked persons can be highlighted now.
  • Further improved Family Assistant.
  • Pictures in Reports are now showing up correctly in the Reports under Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.
  • Further minor fixes and improvements.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.3 Beta 3 (Sep 23, 2008)

  • Persons in the Family Assistant can be tinted according to gender or generation.
  • The Family Assistant shows marriage and divorce icons now.
  • Alignment in the Family Assistant improved.
  • Bugfixes in the Kinship Report.
  • More minor bug fixes and improvements.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.3 Beta 2 (Sep 22, 2008)

  • Improved alignment in the Family Assistant.
  • Further rewrites concerning the Kinship Report.
  • Adjustable depth of generations for the Kinship Report.
  • Added better support for GEDCOM media.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.3 Beta 1 (Sep 16, 2008)

  • Virtual Globe now sports an Events list for easier navigation: click on any event in the Events side pane and immediately jump to the vividly highlighted geographic location.
  • Improved Search to now support combinations of multiple search strings: search just like in Google or Spotlight on your Mac.
  • New Family and Person Bookmarks to easily tag the various instances you are currently working on, or to which you want to return easily. Quickly navigate between those Bookmarks while performing your complex research.
  • Optionally downscale huge pictures while adding them to your tree; you don't necessarily want to import ditigal photos in RAW format to the MacFamilyTree database.
  • Entirely new, WebKit-basd Reports you can now interactively customize: Person, Kinship and Distinctive Persons Reports, Lists for Places, Events and Birthdays. You define which information you require. The new Reports also offer The same flexibility towards font styles and sizes which made MacFamilyTree's reporting feature so popular already.
  • Rewritten Kinship Report now more accurately handles complex inter- and intra-family relationships over multiple generations.
  • Improved quick navigation labels precisely define the context in which you are currently working or browsing.
  • Better handling of date format inconsistencies and individual notations for incomplete date entries and/or modifiers.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.2.6 (Sep 1, 2008)

  • Fixes and performance improvements in the Virtual Tree.
  • Fix for the Web Export handling pictures incorrectly.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.2.5 (Aug 27, 2008)

  • Fixes for MobileFamilyTree export (Mobile genealogy for your iPhone or iPod touch).
  • Fixes for the Virtual Tree.
  • PDF Export improved.
  • Generate kekule numbers directly from the ancestor or descendant chart.
  • Improved chart editing.
  • Many other minor fixes and improvements.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.2.4 (Aug 14, 2008)

  • Improved MobileFamilyTree Syncing (Genealogy on your iPhone/iPod touch).
  • Fixes in the Media Browser.
  • Several other bug fixes and minor improvements.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.2.3 (Aug 1, 2008)

  • MobileFamilyTree integration (Genealogy on your iPhone/iPod touch)
  • Improved the Virtual Globe
  • Improved date parser handling
  • Improved MacFamilyTree.com export
  • Improved Tutorial
  • Bug fixes in the Kinship Report
  • Many bug fixes and smaller improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 5.2.2 (Jul 8, 2008)

  • HTML Export now excludes personal details of living persons from the GEDCOM file if included in the export
  • Address Book import fixed
  • .Mac replaced by Mobile Me
  • Other smaller fixes

New in MacFamilyTree 5.2.1 (Jun 26, 2008)

  • Several fixes in the GEDCOM importer
  • GEDCOM Merge improved
  • PDF files are now generated correctly under Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
  • Virtual Globe rendering issue on older systems resolved
  • Fixes for MacFamilyTree.com upload

New in MacFamilyTree 5.2 (Jun 20, 2008)

  • new 3D view "Virtual Tree" - view, browse and analyze complete family trees at a glance;
  • new Selective GEDCOM export;
  • much improved GEDOM import and merge, GEDCOM handling is significantly faster altogether;
  • improved Kinship Report to fully support complex family relations;
  • improved Genogram view now displays items chronologically;
  • improved Media content creation on Web export;
  • redesigned MacFamilyTree.com for better usability;
  • new "Events Selector" to quickly configure your charts;
  • new "Chart-to-PNG" and "Chart-to-PDF" buttons make creating pristine copies of your charts a snap. No need to use each chart's Edit Mode, if you just want to quickly save or print the current view;
  • new Family Navigation in the Person Editor immediately displays all known parents, partners and children for a given person. Families and persons can be directly accessed and even created. No navigating back and forth between lists and windows!
  • Person Event pane updated with an "Age" column - display the current person's age at the time of each specific event;
  • better support for "Additional Names";
  • many other, more or less visible improvements in the user interface;
  • the usual minor enhancements, tweaks and fixes.
  • MacFamilyTree 5.2 is currently localized in US English, Danish, Finnish, French, German and Italian. Spanish and Swedish will be made available soon. Many other languages are due to be included in subsequent free updates.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.2 Beta 7 (Jun 13, 2008)

  • Vastly improved alignment in the Virtual Tree
  • Spacing between parents and children can be customized in the Virtual Tree
  • Gender symbols can be displayed in the Virtual Tree
  • Editing date formats in the preferences and date parsing improved
  • Fixes in the Fan Chart
  • Minor bug fixes

New in MacFamilyTree 5.2 Beta 6 (Jun 6, 2008)

  • Selective GEDCOM Export allows you to export parts of your tree database file
  • Improved GEDCOM Merge
  • Improved alignment in the Virtual Tree
  • Improved performance of the Virtual Tree
  • Smaller user interface improvements and the usual bug fixes

New in MacFamilyTree 5.2 Beta 5 (Jun 3, 2008)

  • New Event Selector: you may now specify which events are shown in the Ancestor Chart, Descendant Chart, Genogram, Person Report and Timeline
  • New black & white theme for Ancestor and Descendant Chart
  • Virtual Tree: you may now color generations alternatingly for better navigation
  • Improved overall performance and memory management

New in MacFamilyTree 5.2 Beta 4 (May 30, 2008)

  • New color and object options added to the Virtual Tree
  • Improved and condensed graphical user interface in many places
  • General performance improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 5.2 Beta 3 (May 27, 2008)

  • Virtual Tree graphics vastly improved, including configureable objects and customizable lighting
  • Alignment bugs fixed in the Virtual Tree
  • Performance of the Virtual Tree improved
  • Many other minor enhancements

New in MacFamilyTree 5.2 Beta 2 (May 23, 2008)

  • Virtual Tree: Fixed potential crash
  • Virtual Tree: Fixed distorted person pictures
  • Birthday Report: Only parses dates with a full date now
  • GEDCOM importer: Compatibility improved

New in MacFamilyTree 5.2 Beta 1 (May 20, 2008)

  • 3D Tree View � "Virtual Tree": Shows a navigatable 3D view of everyone in your current database.
  • Displays all "trees" in their entirety, giving you a comprehensive overview of the complexity and historical scope of your genealogical research.
  • Mouse Navigation: Single- or Double-Click and Drag to move between generations. Hover with your Mouse over ("Mouse Over") single entries and immediately display essential information.
  • Our easy-to-use "Navigator" is a handy control to virtually fly through your family history. The "Person List" well known from our "Family Assistant" gives quick access to specific persons in your database.
  • Entries (persons) can optionally be color-marked according to their date of birth. This is an interesting alternative to distinguishing between male and female family members and immediately visualizes your family's evolution through time.
  • On recent Macs, MacFamilyTree smoothly renders pristine 3D views thanks to Open GL and "Full Scene Anti Aliasing".
  • Person Edit Mode Gets New Family Navigation: In Person Edit Mode, all known parents, partners and children for a given person are clearly displayed. Families and persons can be directly accessed. No need for navigating back and forth between lists and windows.
  • Parents and partners can be created easily, directly from within this new pane in the Person Editor.
  • Genogram view now displays items chronologically: events by date and children by date of birth.
  • Fixed the long-standing issue concerning the display of complex kinships.
  • Media content is now generated correctly when exported for the Web.
  • The Person Event Pane gained an "Age" column: you can now easily check the current person's age at the time of each specific event.
  • Significantly improved GEDCOM import.
  • The usual minor enhancements, tweaks and fixes.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.1.7 (May 9, 2008)

  • The integrated search function now supports searching for dates
  • Fixes for the family chart
  • Fixes in the GEDCOM exporter
  • iPhoto Library import fixed
  • Adding new text to charts now works correctly
  • Minor other fixes

New in MacFamilyTree 5.1.6 (Apr 25, 2008)

  • Several localization fixes for all languages
  • Minor bug fixes

New in MacFamilyTree 5.1.5 (Apr 16, 2008)

  • Web Site Export fixed
  • New Quickstart Guide added (Full Manual is forthcoming)
  • Fan Chart can now display ancestors and descendants
  • Minor fixes

New in MacFamilyTree 5.1.4 (Apr 14, 2008)

  • Database Maintenance: added a feature to repair instances in the database, where parents of a family were not displayed in the appropriate 'man' or 'woman' column of the Families list, regardless of their sex attribute having been set correctly.
  • Views: The new 'glossy' appearance in our various Charts can now be switched on and off in the Diagram Editor.
  • Publish Web Pages: quotation marks and apostrophes are now correctly handled.
  • Charts: Edit multiple chart boxes at once in the chart editor.
  • GEDCOM: Several fixes in the GEDCOM Importer.
  • Edit: Fixed a bug in the Family Assistant, causing ancestors of the mother's side of a given person not to be displayed.

New in MacFamilyTree 5.1.3 (Apr 4, 2008)

  • Family Assistant displays persons pictures if available
  • Labels can be assigned directly from the family assistant
  • Media can now be opened directly in Apples Preview application
  • Minor bug fixes

New in MacFamilyTree 5.1.2 (Apr 1, 2008)

  • Fixed issues with the family assistant
  • Pictures in the ancestor chart and the descendant chart are now shown correctly
  • Database Maintenance fixes
  • Search fields are cleared now when quitting MacFamilyTree
  • Minor other fixes

New in MacFamilyTree 5.1.1 (Mar 28, 2008)

  • Media Pane for pictures now supports zooming and scrolling
  • Multi-Page-PDFs can now be viewed from within MacFamilyTree
  • Pictures and PDFs can be saved to a file now
  • Many improvements in the GEDCOM importer and exporter
  • User Interface improvements
  • Localization fixes
  • Smaller fixes

New in MacFamilyTree 5.1 (Mar 18, 2008)

  • Our new Edit Mode "Media Browser" is a centralized picture gallery:
  • Media Browser: display essential information (media title, person name, date of birth)
  • Media Browser: quickly access all pictures in the database (other media types will be supported in the near future)
  • Media Browser: quickly access Edit Mode for all people with attached media in the database
  • The new View "Fan Chart" offers a configurable, editable Fan Chart:
  • Fan Chart: fully editable as with all charts and reports in MacFamilyTree 5
  • Fan Chart: flexibly and interactively set the number of generations
  • Fan Chart. adjustable fan angle from 90� to 360�
  • Fan Chart: automatically increase cell size to fit information also for distant generations
  • Fan Chart: autocoloring of generations for quick results
  • Fan Chart: selectable "Themes": multicolor or line-art, also supports greyscale output
  • Overall much improved user interface:
  • GUI: media pane cycles through pictures in a slideshow for persons, families, sources and events
  • GUI: media can be browsed directly in the Persons, Families, Sources and Events Edit Mode
  • GUI: direct access to Kekul� numbering via main window
  • GUI: improved Auto-Zoom (charts)
  • GUI: improved Fit-to-Screen (charts)
  • GUI: many added contextual menus (right mouse button/CTRL-click)
  • GUI: improved list views
  • GUI: many usability improvements including Drag'n'Drop support
  • New Database Maintenance Feature:
  • Database Maintenance: Convert the Date Format in your whole tree to a standard format
  • Database Maintenance: Check for not interpretable dates in your database
  • Database Maintenance: Remove unused, empty entries with one click
  • Address Book Import directly into the MacFamilyTree Database from the build-in Mac OS X Address Book
  • Performance enhancements
  • Many bug fixes
  • Swedish Localization added
  • Danish Localization added
  • Spanish Localization added
  • PayPal Buying Option added

New in MacFamilyTree 5.1 Beta 5 (Mar 14, 2008)

  • New Database Maintenance Feature to adjust date formats and search for not interpretable date formats. Furthermore, you can remove unused entries without any data with one click
  • New age column in the person list view
  • Background of Media Browser can be changed now
  • Many fixes and improvements in the date parser
  • Many other minor features and improvements
  • PayPal buying option

New in MacFamilyTree 5.1 Beta 4 (Mar 11, 2008)

  • Improved Family List
  • Media Browser now supports sorting by date or name
  • New Media Pane with Slideshow Function if more than one picture is present
  • Many bug fixes and smaller improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 5.1 Beta 3 (Mar 4, 2008)

  • Our new Edit Mode "Media Browser" is a centralized picture gallery:
  • Media Browser: display essential information (media title, person name, date of birth)
  • Media Browser: quickly access all pictures in the database (other media types will be supported in the near future)
  • Media Browser: quickly access Edit Mode for all people with attached media in the database
  • The new View "Fan Chart" offers a configurable, editable Fan Chart:
  • Fan Chart: fully editable as with all charts and reports in MacFamilyTree 5
  • Fan Chart: flexibly and interactively set the number of generations
  • Fan Chart. adjustable fan angle from 90� to 360�
  • Fan Chart: automatically increase cell size to fit information also for distant generations
  • Fan Chart: autocoloring of generations for quick results
  • Fan Chart: selectable "Themes": multicolor or line-art, also supports greyscale output
  • Overall much improved user interface:
  • GUI: media can be browsed directly in the Persons, Families, Sources and Events Edit Mode
  • GUI: direct access to Kekul� numbering via main window
  • GUI: improved Auto-Zoom (charts)
  • GUI: improved Fit-to-Screen (charts)
  • GUI: many added contextual menus (right mouse button/CTRL-click)
  • GUI: improved list views
  • GUI: many usability improvements including Drag'n'Drop support
  • Performance enhancements
  • Fixed demo mode issues for some registered users
  • Fixed pixelated pictures in charts
  • Improved zoom tool
  • Better editing of charts
  • Localization issues fixed
  • Some minor issues fixed

New in MacFamilyTree 5.1 Beta 2 (Feb 25, 2008)

  • Our new Edit Mode "Media Browser" is a centralized picture gallery:
  • Media Browser: display essential information (media title, person name, date of birth)
  • Media Browser: quickly access all pictures in the database (other media types will be supported in the near future)
  • Media Browser: quickly access Edit Mode for all people with attached media in the database
  • The new View "Fan Chart" offers a configurable, editable Fan Chart:
  • Fan Chart: fully editable as with all charts and reports in MacFamilyTree 5
  • Fan Chart: flexibly and interactively set the number of generations
  • Fan Chart. adjustable fan angle from 90� to 360�
  • Fan Chart: automatically increase cell size to fit information also for distant generations
  • Fan Chart: autocoloring of generations for quick results
  • Fan Chart: selectable "Themes": multicolor or line-art, also supports greyscale output
  • Overall much improved user interface:
  • GUI: media can be browsed directly in the Persons, Families, Sources and Events Edit Mode
  • GUI: direct access to Kekul� numbering via main window
  • GUI: improved Auto-Zoom (charts)
  • GUI: improved Fit-to-Screen (charts)
  • GUI: many added contextual menus (right mouse button/CTRL-click)
  • GUI: improved list views
  • GUI: many usability improvements including Drag'n'Drop support
  • Performance enhancements
  • Fixed demo mode issues for some registered users
  • Fixed pixelated pictures in charts
  • Some minor issues fixed

New in MacFamilyTree 5.1 Beta 1 (Feb 22, 2008)

  • Our new Edit Mode "Media Browser" is a centralized picture gallery:
  • Media Browser: display essential information (media title, person name, date of birth)
  • Media Browser: quickly access all pictures in the database (other media types will be supported in the near future)
  • Media Browser: quickly access Edit Mode for all people with attached media in the database
  • The new View "Fan Chart" offers a configurable, editable Fan Chart:
  • Fan Chart: fully editable as with all charts and reports in MacFamilyTree 5
  • Fan Chart: flexibly and interactively set the number of generations
  • Fan Chart. adjustable fan angle from 90� to 360�
  • Fan Chart: automatically increase cell size to fit information also for distant generations
  • Fan Chart: autocoloring of generations for quick results
  • Fan Chart: selectable "Themes": multicolor or line-art, also supports greyscale output
  • Overall much improved user interface:
  • GUI: media can be browsed directly in the Persons, Families, Sources and Events Edit Mode
  • GUI: direct access to Kekul� numbering via main window
  • GUI: improved Auto-Zoom (charts)
  • GUI: improved Fit-to-Screen (charts)
  • GUI: many added contextual menus (right mouse button/CTRL-click)
  • GUI: improved list views
  • GUI: many usability improvements including Drag'n'Drop support
  • Performance enhancements
  • Some minor issues fixed

New in MacFamilyTree 5.0.11 (Feb 8, 2008)

  • Many user interface improvements
  • Spanish localization added
  • Improved web site export
  • Family Events now appear in the find coordinates dialog
  • Performance of chart generation has been improved
  • Many other minor fixes

New in MacFamilyTree 5.0.10 (Jan 25, 2008)

  • Family events like marriages are now displayed on the virtual globe
  • Improved coordinate entering for family events
  • Better progress indicator when importing or exporting GEDCOM or a Web Site
  • Fixed several flaws in the GEDCOM importer
  • Fixed graphical glitches on the virtual globe some users experienced
  • Many other minor bug fixes and improvements

New in MacFamilyTree 5.0 Beta 10 (Oct 26, 2007)

  • Kinship Report included
  • New optional Wood Interface Theme
  • Fixes related to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
  • Many minor improvements (GEDCOM Import and Export, HTML Export)
  • Many interface tweaks