GenDetective® 2011 Update v 1.6 Released
Click here to download the new GenDetective® software update.
This update includes the following enhancements:
- A series of five (5) new reports. Throw away your tracking spreadsheets! The spreadsheets you use to track who you need to order a death, birth or marriage certificate for, re no longer necessary. Use these new reports to identify who:
- Died in the United States between 1940 - 2012 and does not have the SSDI as a source for their death event.
- Died in Pennsylvania between 1906 - 2012 and does not have a Pennsylvania death certificate as a source for their death event.
- Who was married in Indiana County, Pa between 1885 - 2012 and does not have an Indiana County marriage license as a source for their marriage event.
- There are three (3) new reports that identify the people who HAVE a source for a specific event, providing a way to identify those who have the available birth, death, or marriage certificate, or any other source for an event.
- Support for FTM 2012 media files, allowing FTM users to access the various multimedia reports that are part of GenDetective.
This update also corrects a few issues including:
- Support for relocating the GenDetective Document directory. Due to a security update by Microsoft, Microsoft Access databases may no longer run reports when they are stored on a network drive (applies to users storing their My Documents folder on a network drive).
- Fix for extremely large notes in FTM causing an error.
- Correction for error in RootsMagic shared family events where some people were not identified as participating in the event.
- For shared marriage events (RootsMagic) identify everyone except the married couple as participating, not as getting married.
- Correction to a census report identifying people who had a specific census.
This update includes the following enhancements:
- Personal Research Goals: Genealogy is a journey of personal discovery. GenDetective’s personal research goals will act as the mileposts along your path of discovery. Configure the records you usually research (including year ranges) and GenDetective will display your progress using a series of footprints. Read Personal Research Goals for an introduction to configuring your personal goals and the Research Progress Summary report. Configuration of your goals is done in the Reporter, with your saved changes, taking effect immediately. In support of the personal research goals, five (5) new reports have been introduced:
- Overall Research Progress
- Research Progress Summary
- Detailed Research Progress
- My Research Progress, by the numbers
- Research Progress Worksheet(s)
- Birth Indexes: Three (3) new reports to support research conducted using a birth index at a national, state or county level.
- Death Indexes: Three (3) new reports to support research conducted using a death index at a national, state or local level.
- A new source timeline report: This report is a companion to the traditional timeline, except the focus is not on the events themselves, but on the sourcing for each event in a person's timeline.
- The Trip Research Guide has been enhanced to include three worksheets at the end of the report: Birth Certificates, Death Certificates and Marriage Information which include the list of people that are included in the research guide, sorted in date order, further simplifying your courthouse research.
- Many additional reports have been added to the Reports By Task view in the Reporter.
- Support for Mac OS X running in a hosted Windows environment using (additional information):
- Apple BootCamp
- Parallels
- VirtualBox
- VMWare Fusion
- Support for these Mac OS X genealogy software programs:
This update also corrects a few issues including:
- A processing error in an ancestry.com GEDCOM files
This update includes the following enhancements:
- A new report: Unindexed Censuses. This new census report is ideal for researching an unindexed census, especially the new 1940 US Census. For additional information please visit New Unindexed Census Report for a discussion of this new report!
- Additional reports have been added to the Reports By Task view in the Reporter
- Added support for dates in the format: bet 1920/1930
- Support for the new tag Mil-Srv for military service found in TMG8.
This update also corrects a few issues:
- The Ahnetafel report had an issue with too many generations
- Issue in the Reporter when calculating relationships "on-the-fly".
This update includes a major enhancement to the user interface in the GenDetective® Reporter. A new tab view, Reports By Task, allows you to quickly identify reports that are ideal for specific tasks. A video demonstrating this new view is available "Overview of GenDetective® Reporter".
This update includes a couple of enhancements requested by our users:
- Support for large family trees. Our setting shows trees between 150,000 - 200,000 people depending upon the quantity of data per person.
- My Reports - This new feature in the Reporter allows you to identify (right click, and select Add to favorite reports) your favorite reports and put them in one spot for quick and easy access!
- New obituary report, "Missing obituaries for people with known death dates in county by date" which provides a list of people who died in a county, ordered by date of death, making it easier when looking up obituaries on microfiche.
This update also corrects a few issues
- Changes to the installation to self correct some installation issues.
- Automatic detection in the Reporter of multiple Access versions and default to the preferred version (was a manual setting).
This update includes several enhancements requested by our users:
- Added support for up to 100 generations
- The Analyzer enhancements include
- The Analyzer Wizard has fewer steps; any configuration option that was removed from the Wizard can be configured through the Analyzer main screen.
- Improved load time when initially reading your GEDCOM file
- Remember the name of the file that was last loaded into the Wizard
- Enhanced processing of user GEDCOM files, including adding support for dates in the format such as 1830's
- The Reporter enhancements include
- New arrows for running reports
- New toolbar help option for getting help with the current report
- Seven new reports
- People with an event that references repository
- People without an event that references repository
- Events without media
- People with events without media
- People's marriage ages
- People's death ages
This update also corrects a few issues:
- Resolved failure to identify the Burial event without a media file as a cemetery marker that has been located
- Resolved installation issues
- Altered the sort order in several reports
- Renamed the country of Georgia to the "Republic of Georgia" to avoid confusion with the state "Georgia, USA" when USA is not included in place names
- Resolved submitter information not displaying correctly
- Resolved automatic report file names when quotes or other illegal file name characters were include in the report file name
- Improved calculation of marriage ages statistics by excluding marriage ages where the persons birth age is estimated
- Resolved issue where alternate names were given precedence over initial names
- Resolved issue where kinship person was not included in most reports
This update includes several small enhancements suggested by our users:
- Added support for native ancestry.com GEDCOM files
- Added support for custom census tags
- Supports additional date qualifiers: circa 1924, ~1924 and 1924/25
- Added "GenDetective® Sample Report" to the top of each sample report and added note to bottom to Press green arrow to run this report
- GenDetective® Analyzer will automatically launch the GenDetective® on exit (user confirmable setting)
- Enhanced the save process so that you can make changes to multiple Military Conflict definitions without having to save each change as you make it.
- Changed labeling in Personal Research Itinerary from missing to "no location recorded" when an event has been recorded but no location is provided.
- Added a notification when a license key has been successfully activated
- Includes support for additional GEDCOM tags from earlier specifications
This update also corrects a few issues.
- Not all submitter information displays at the end of each report
- Installation issue where Microsoft Access runtime was not installed
- Resolved an "index was outside bounds ..." issue
- Resolved an "object reference not set ..." issue
- Resolved a "given key was not found ..." issue
- Resolved issue when processing locations
- Corrected a spelling error in news updates
- Enable GenDetective®to detect that the Office 2007 Compatibility Pack for Microsoft Office 2003 is installed and caused an unreported installation error. Unfortunately, GenDetective® does not install correctly due to conflicts within the Office components. The correction for this issue is detailed in the FAQ under known installation issues.
This update does not include updates to the documentation. Please see the article and download link below.
GenDetective® 2011 Documentation Update Released (1.0.01)
This update is not included in the software update patch release listed above. This update is a 43MB download. To install this file, please save this file to location you installed GenDetective® into. The default directory depending on your operating system is either:
C:\Program Files\GenDetective
C:\Program Files (x86)\GenDetective
