Recent Changes in Brother's Keeper version 6.5

(If you already have BK 6 installed, you can download bkupdate.exe to update to the current version. The current version contains all the fixes and changes described below.)

(changed) On Group sheet with option for children compressed, do not print 'died' heading if option is set to omit blank dates.

(fixed) On Family Edit screen, it was sometimes not erasing the Divorce event and it was sometimes not showing dates for children.

(new report) On the Other menu is Individual report (like Group sheets, except Individual report does not show spouse or children.)

(fixed) Fixed a problem if you changed a note from Individual to Family and then edited the note at the same time.

(fixed) Sometimes on Register Book report, if printing Basic events only, it was not ending each person with a period.

(new items or items fixed by 6.2.25 are below)

(fixed) The Palm database routine was giving an error if over 32,000 people.

(fixed) Family Edit, show Christened and show Age for children.

(new items or items fixed by 6.2.24 are below)

(new) On the File, Utilities menu is a new item to create a Palm handheld computer database.

(fixed) On the Select Person screen the 6.2.23 version had a bug where a button was incorrectly showing while Options were displayed.

(changed) Family Edit, show Christened if Baptized is blank.

(new items or items fixed by 6.2.23 are below)

(new) On the Select Person screen, there is a new option to also search Alternate Names.

(changed) On the main Welcome screen, there are 5 additional lines of information for new users.

A new Translation program update is available for the translators.

(new items or items fixed by 6.2.22 are below)

(new) On the Edit screen if you change the name of an existing person, it will ask you to confirm that you want to make that change. You can turn off that feature if you pick Options at the bottom right.

(fixed) The 6.2.21 version had a bug when you blanked out an existing occupation description, it would say "invalid use of null".

(new items or items fixed by 6.2.21 are below)

(new) On the Edit screen press F12 to jump to Family Edit screen (for BK5 users that liked the Family Edit Screen layout) 29-Oct-2006 made some changes for foreign languages.

(changed) Can use = for any location or any decription to repeat what it was for the previously viewed person.

(fixed) On gedcom export if foreign language and if single digit date, it was sometimes not converting month to English.

(fixed) Fixed error "invalid use of null" if you are on the "To do" tab and you only add a Note then move to another person while the description and other fields are blank.

(new items or items fixed by 6.2.20 are below)

(new) In the Other, Picture summary routine, new option to print all pictures attached to one person.

(changed) The Edit screen will issue a warning if you enter a location that is too long for the field size.

(fixed) On the regular Descendant report, output to TXT file, the Notes did not line up correctly if some lines were short and some were paragraphs.

(fixed) In the Utility that puts the BK code number into the Ref field, it was not replacing what was already in the Ref field when that option was selected.

(new items or items fixed by 6.2.19 are below)

(fixed) Lists, Todo Search/Report was not matching Priority = Low.

(fixed) Fix numbers in columns 6 and 7 of 7 generation ancestor chart if first person not number 1.

(fixed) In Gedcom export have first REPO line be 1 NAME not 1 ADDR.

(changed) If error in Edit about bad picture sequence (invalid line number) then it will try to fix it.

(new items or items fixed by 6.2.18 are below)

(fixed) Fixed a problem in the 6.2.17 version in the Quality check where an Overflow error could occur sometimes with a very large database.

(changed) If you pick the option to select only certain Notes to print on the Book reports or the Group sheets, and if you ask for Event Notes also, then it will also print the Event notes that match the same selection.

(new items or items fixed by 6.2.17 are below)

(fixed) Fixed a problem where if a person had more than one spouse, and if you had a Family Note attached to one couple, then you changed to another spouse and added another Note, it would sometimes duplicate the same Note for both spouses.

(changed) The Backup routine will also work with Windows XP Brazilian version.

(fixed) Sometimes on the Book reports, in the Norwegian version, if a couple was set up with a Common Law marriage, it would print the word "med" twice.

(fixed) When printing the Ahnentafel Book report, if you selected the option to have Notes printed with a blank line before and after each note, it was printing too many blank lines after.

(new items or items fixed by 6.2.16 are below)

(fixed) Register Modified NGSQ Report - the generation number after given name is italic when Printing from BK - was that way only if creating RTF from 10-25-05 until now.

(fixed) Under certain conditions when printing Group sheets with pictures and notes, sometimes there would be a large space before the start of the notes.

(fixed) Global search and replace Media files, was not working for Family Media files.

(new items or items fixed by 6.2.15 are below)

(changed) Show Christened date and place on Missing information report.

(changed) Allow right mouse click in Todo text box to cut, copy, paste.

(fixed) Switch two lines on Options screen about Media files (lines 1 and 3 were reversed)

(changed) If you delete (blank out) a ToDo internal note it will now remove the pointer to the blank note so it will not print an extra blank line on todo report.

(new items or items fixed by 6.2.14 are below)

(new) Two versions of Norwegian language included.

(new) Turns off Read Only for file bkfixfle.sav (if it was read only.)

(fixed) Fix illegal function call 5 in createHTM3 if text file ended with invalid characters.

(new items or items fixed by 6.2.13 are below)

(new) On the Edit screen, if a person has more than one spouse, you can pick from the top menu Edit, Set this spouse as primary, and then that spouse will show first anytime you show the top person.

(changed) If you have the Swedish version of Windows XP, the Backup routine should work correctly now.

(fixed) If you had a backup on C:\ and you were trying to restore from C:\ it was not finding the backup in that location.

(new items or items fixed by 6.2.12 are below)

(changed) If you do a Word Search on the Event tab, you can search certain fields such as Divorced and No Children even when the date and location fields are blank

(changed) If you are entering a Note on the To Do tab, and you change tabs before saving the Note, it will not be lost when you come back to the To Do tab.

(changed) If you are entering a Note on the To Do tab, and you save the note, but the entire grid line is blank, and you move to another person without entering anything in the grid, the note will not be lost.

(fixed) The 10 March 2005 fix (about Divorce printing on Group sheets when the couple is Not Married) in BK 6.1 was not fixed in BK 6.2 until now.

(fixed) If you have the option set to show a Note for a Witness, the spouse name in the note was sometimes wrong when there was more than one spouse.

(changed) Add *.GIF to the picture list (if gif is not working, download after 01-01-2006 and install again)

(new items or items fixed by 6.2.11 are below)

(changed) If you do a Word Search for Person or for Any Field, it will also search the Sort Name field.

(new) Button to print one label from the address tab on Edit (looks for DYMO printer, but may work for other printers also).

(fixed) In the note text box on the Todo tab, the menu item Edit, Cut was not working (it kept saiding 'click edit button above text').

(fixed) Custom print, field 67 for spouse last name first, if you also picked 99 it was only doing first spouse last name first and the rest were regular.

(new) Descendant Report, Group Sheet, Book reports option to change name to 'Living' (for translators, it is workfile line 4683.)

(changed) Register Book says 'Generation Two' instead of 'Second Generation' and prints it in italic not bold.

(new) Register Book, option for children names in all small caps . 2 points smaller upper case.

(new) Program can show .gif images.

(new items or items fixed by 6.2.10 are below)

(fixed) One of the changes from 6.2.9 was not working correctly. The generation number of the first child was not correct in cases where the child had no children.

(changed) Made some more changes for NGSQ option for Register report. When showing the lineage, it shows the surname of the immediately preceding ancestor where the surnames are different. It prints a . (period) after roman numberals and does not print a . (period) after registration numbers for the children. The children names are not printed in bold (there is an option to make them that way if you still prefer.) The superscript generation number after the given name is in italic, if NGSQ option is selected and if you output to RTF file. (It is not italic for preview or direct printing currently.) These changes are to make the report more closely conform to the NGSQ standards. There will be a few more changes for the NGSQ report also.

(new items or items fixed by 6.2.9 are below)

(changed) Gedcom export now includes the date of last change for each person.

(changed) When making a Book report with pictures and exporting to an RTF file for Word, the name of the picture is not included in the text box because sometimes it would show below the picture.

(fixed) Fixed a problem when using the Ref Number report and selecting Paragraph for the field and exporting to RTF file.

(changed) Made some changes for NGSQ option for Register report. It now puts the generation number of each descendant after the given names, and also after the given names of the first child of each descendant. And there is an option to turn off the register number that is before the names in the Lineage section (after each descendant).

(new items or items fixed by 6.2.8 are below)

(changed) If you are printing a report and excluding data for living people, the pictures for living people will be excluded also.

(changed) The 'Locations with Events' report, can handle over 32000 locations now.

(new items or items fixed by 6.2.7 are below)

(changed) For the foreign language translators. (Translators need this version and also the new WORD6SET.EXE file on the translation page.)

(changed) This compile contains 6.2 translations for Danish, German, BEFrench, Dutch, Dutch2, Afrikaans.

(new items or items fixed by 6.2.6 are below)

(changed) The main change in this version is for the foreign language translators.

(note) Note, the 6.2.6 update does NOT contain the new foreign translations for 6.2 yet. The next update will contains some new translations.

(changed) Also a change regarding a problem in Book reports with an extra blank line below notes when using BASIC events only.

(new items or items fixed by 6.2.5 are below)

(changed) The main change in this version is for the foreign language translators. Translators can now start the translation for the 6.2 changes. When the translations are ready, they will be included in the next update. (Translators need this version and also the new WORD6SET.EXE file on the translation page.)

(new items or items fixed by 6.2.4 are below)

(changed) On Book reports, if an event date and location are blank, but it has a source attached, it will print the event name and source.

(changed) On Book reports, a change was made in version 6.2.1 to print a blank line after notes of one spouse before printing another spouse (in certain circumstances). This has been further modified in version 6.2.4 to not print that extra blank line if the children are printed after the note instead of another spouse being printed. This change was made to fix a problem of an extra blank line in some situations.

(fixed) When viewing a list of names, if the bottom line says "click here for more" it will not give an error now if you accidentally double click it.

(new items or items fixed by 6.2.3 are below)

(new) When you click on a picture on Edit to display it full screen, you can pick File, Reduce to 1024 by 768 if the picture is larger than that.

(fixed) Sometimes the pictures would not print on the Compute Relationship Box Chart even if picture option was turned on for Box Charts.

(fixed) Sometimes pictures for Compute Relationship Box Chart were slightly outside the boxes.

(fixed) The new feature in 6.2.2 to put both husband and wife name in note of witness was not working correctly if you added two or more witnesses in the same session.

(fixed) Sometimes if an event had a normal date, and then you modified the date to be over 20 characters long, it would disconnect a source for that event.

(new items or items fixed by 6.2.2 are below)

(new) On File, Utility, Global search and replace, you can globally change the Media path name

(new) Add Email line to address line for submitter information on Gedcom Export.

(new) On Edit if you enter a Media or Picture file name where the path and file name are over 150 characters long, it gives a warning.

(changed) If you add a Witness to a marriage event, the Note that is added to the witness includes the names of both the husband and wife.

(fixed) Fixed a problem where an error occurred if you clicked the mouse near the left side of a blank Media grid.

(new items or items fixed by 6.2.1 are below)

(new) On Edit screen, you can click Options button (on events tab) to turn on option to have a double click of a sibling change to the Events tab.

(changed) When printing a Register Book report, if you do not have the option turned on to print separate paragraphs for husband and wife, but you do have the option turned on to print a new line or a blank line before the Notes for the descendant or the spouse, it now will also print a new line or blank line after the notes.

(changed) On the Tree chart, if you are printing only the year for born, died and married, the columns are slightly wider now to avoid a problem where a long spouse name might not quite fit.

(fixed) Made some changes to try to avoid possible overflow error in module footTnote

(new items or items fixed by 6.2.0 are below)

(new) BK Version 6.2 has 2 new tabs on the Edit screen. One tab is for Media files (so you can attach sound and video files, and also have links to email and html pages. The other new tab is for To Do items or Research items. You can enter things you want to do regarding each person

(new) There is also a General To Do list on the main screen File menu.

(new) To print the To Do list, pick Lists, To Do Search/Report

(new) The new < > buttons at the top of the Edit screen are Back and Forward buttons. So if you browse and pick Father, Father, Father, you can pick < three times to go back to the first person you started with. 

(new) The Edit screen will keep the current tab when changing people. (So if you are on the Pictures tab, and you click the Spouse button, it shows the pictures for that person instead of changing back to the Events tab.)

(new) The program creates a file called BKFIXFLE.SAV to help recover data in case of damaged to the database.

(new) On Gedcom Export you can change the name of living people to "living" so the actual name does not export.

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.40 are below)

(fixed) If you added a source and set the Scope to Date only or Location only, the next source you added would have the same scope also.

(changed) On the report List, Sources, show everyone this source is attached to, when the Preview was showing, if you picked File, Print it would print the wrong report. Now it says to pick File, Print Current Page instead.

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.39 are below)

(fixed) Fixed a problem where under certain conditions, the Register Book or Ahnentafel Book report might say "children" instead of "children by …"

(fixed) When making an RTF output file for the Register Book, if the option was set for Born date only (after the name in the RTF index) it would sometimes not show the birth location for the spouse in the report.

(fixed) The Count of Descendants report would sometimes add a generation 98 when there should not be one.

(fixed) The Gedcom Export would sometimes put an extra space before a comma when writing a name like John Smith, Jr.

(fixed) If you had the printer paper size set to Legal and you did a Preview of a report, it would sometimes remain as Letter size paper on the Preview screen.

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.38 are below)

(fixed) If printing a Group sheet with pictures, and the family had only one parent, it would sometimes print the wrong picture for one of the children.

(fixed) If printing a Group sheet with the option set for the "new events" and if a couple had the "not married" event, it was printing "Ceremony N" the way it would if you were printing only "Basic Events" so now it prints "not married"

(fixed) On the Edit screen, if you were sorting children by date, it would incorrectly put a child at the top if the birth date had a day of __ as in: __ May 1954

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.37 are below)

(fixed) 08 March 2005. If printing a Register Book report of Only male or Only female, it would cause error 6 overflow.

(fixed) 08 March 2005. Fixed an error 340 that happened on the Convert Date routine if you were using the new date options for lowercase dates and 0 before days less than 10.

(changed) The Book reports will print the events in the same order as they appear on the Edit screen now. Before it was printing all the Events (things with locations) followed by all the Others (things with descriptions). This also fixes a problem if there were 2 or more Other events with Witnesses.

(fixed) If printing a Register Book report and option was set to exclude data for living, then if a person had 2 or more spouses, sometimes the data for the second spouse was not printing even if that spouse was not living.

(fixed) If you were using one of the two new date options (lower case with leading 0 or upper case without leading 0) then an error was happening if you tried to run the Convert Date routine.

(new) The Readme6.doc file is now a Readme6.rtf file because Wordpad in Win XP can not open a doc file from Windows 98.

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.36 are below)

(fixed) First time users of BK6 were shown on the Group sheets that it would print all new events, but it was only printing Basic events (unless they clicked the button for Basic event, and then back to New Events.)

07-Feb-2005 new language translations for Norwegian, Danish, German, French European, Dutch

If you have the option set to ask if you want a Backup when you stop BK then it now has 3 options of Backup, Stop, or Cancel (not stop).

If you were printing an Ahnentafel report with siblings, it was not showing the correct information for spouse name if there was a "not entered" spouse.

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.35 are below)

(changed) If importing a gedcom file that contains an invalid1character line, it will continue instead of stopping with an illegal function call error.

(fixed) If doing custom list with field for paragraph 86 87 88 and you ask for New Events (on Register), and ask for Event Note or Witnesses, it was previously only printing Basic events with no Event Notes and no Witnesses

(fixed) Fixed problem if you had over 30 general sources for one person or over 30 sources for one event

(fixed) Fixed a problem on gedcom export if a source had an invalid Repository number

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.34 are below)

(changed) The 04 Dec 2004 update gives more details about how to fix a problem, if you run Quality Check and happen to have the problem of two family events trying to use the same line on the Edit screen.

(changed) The 04 Dec 2004 update fixes a problem when importing a gedcom file made by TMG program that contains picture names.

The rest of the 6.1.34 changes below were also in the 20 Nov 2004 version.

(fixed) The 16 Nov 2004 update had a bug in the Compute Relationship routine when you picked Preview or Print. This 20 Nov 2004 update fixes that problem. If you pick Help, About BK and have the 16 Nov 2004 version, then you would need this update.

(new) Option to print Witnesses on the Group sheet, and Register, Indented, Ahnentafel Book reports.

(fixed) On the Compute Relationship routine, sometimes if a person had over 20 generations of ancestors, it would not find a close relationship.

(new) When you Restore a database from a backup CD it will turn off the Read Only file attribute for the files.

(fixed) On Word Search, Any Field, it would sometimes not match an Event Note if the match was the first character in the note.

(changed) The default is for the new events, and not just basic events when you first go to the Group sheet or Book report screens.

(changed) On gedcom export and import BK now also uses the tag "1 _MSTAT Partners" for unmarried Partners to be FTM compatible.

(fixed) If adding general source to new person, it did not say "has general source" if you did a location search previously.

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.33 are below)

(fixed) On gedcom export, if a couple has the Not Married event, it will now export the _NMR tag

(changed) When using the Compute Relationship routine, it can now search up to 16000 ancestors instead of 8000

(Translators can change workfile line 2202 to say 16000 and 60 generations)

(changed) The Collapsed Ancestor chart can now show up to 10000 ancestors instead of 5000

(changed) When you click the N column to go to Event Notes, it will use the same background color that you set on the regular Notes option.

(fixed) Fixed a problem if exporting Witnesses on a database with over 50,000 people

(fixed) The foreign language translations were showing S instead of the correct letter for Source on the Witnesses grid

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.32 are below)

(fixed) On numeric or alphabetical list, if used field 99 all spouses, the spacing of columns could be wrong for "custom events"

(fixed) On Book report, if making RTF file, and born and died in index, and excluding data for living people, a born location was printing after spouse

(fixed) The words "has family source" were not erased and not redisplayed if changing spouses

(changed) If adding to an internal note, and you type over 22,000 characters, when it saves, it will save the rest of the note to the Clipboard

(fixed) Gedcom Export, if a note had only CR without LF, it sometimes caused error 5 Illegal Function Call

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.31 are below)

(fixed) The fields "never married" "not living" "no children" were not printing on Book reports if they were blank

(fixed) Fixed an "overflow" error that happened sometimes when making an Unconnected people list.

(fixed) Fixed a problem that happened sometimes if doing a Convert from BK5 to BK6 and there was a J in the Ceremony field and that field had a source. (Norwegian)

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.30 are below)

(fixed) Fixed problem with notes in Gedcom Export in 16 April 2004 version only

(new) option on birthday/anniversary list for Year instead of Age

(new) 2 new Options for dates with lower case month with 0 or upper case without 0

(fixed) On custom list, if field number 301 or higher, it caused error 9 subscript out of range (if over 13 custom events)

(fixed) If using the Spanish version of Win XP the backup should work correctly now.

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.29 are below)

(new) On the Group sheets, when making html files, the background works for Notes and Index also

(fixed) Fixed a problem where sometimes when doing a Word Search Alpha custom report with paragraph, the RTF file would not open in Word.

(new) Gedcom can export and import Witnesses and Witness sources. However, I will be doing more work soon to help BK be able to read Witnesses from other genealogy program gedcom files (there is not a lot of consistency in the way it is done yet)

(fixed) Fix gedcom import reading 6 CONC and 5 CONC when source citation is attached to a 2 NICK name.

(fixed) Fix gedcom import - source citation was only looking for 5 CONT not 4 CONT when reading a source citation for a general source for person.

(fixed) On Edit when click Add individual, it did not delete "has name source" and "has general source" if it was showing from previous person.

(fixed) On the new utility, global ref change, you could only do it one time, then you had to stop the program before running the routine again.

 (new items or items fixed by 6.1.28 are below)

(new) On reports that have a "Start With" page option, there is now a "Stop At" page option. (Note to translators, this is line 1348 in workfile)

(new) There is a new option on the Book reports to show the Event Notes directly after the event instead of only as a footnote.

(new) Now when you add a person as a Witness, it will add a Note to the Witness to show what event that witness is attached to. This will help if you find someone in your database that is not connected to anyone else and do not remember why that person is in the database.

(new) On the List, Sources screen, there is a new button to show every person a certain source is attached to.

(new) Under File, Utilities, there is a new routine for Ref Num global change. This includes the option to move the BK number to either the Ref Num field or to the Description event (in case you are making a gedcom file and want the BK number to be shown somewhere in another program.)

(fixed) On the Book reports, if location ended with period, and had source attached, sometimes it would put a space before source superscipt number.

(fixed) Sometimes printing the last name first in the Custom List report did not show the last name if the name was over 30 characters long and the Last Name field was used (for a multi-part last name.)

(fixed) Sometimes on the HTML Group Sheets, the link to Other Spouse was wrong if the other spouse was "not entered"

(changed) On Windows XP computers, the Notes box could not show Czech characters correctly. That is fixed now, but only on the Notes tab and not on the Event Notes screen yet.

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.27 are below)

(changed) On the report for places with events, it will also show civil marriage and religious marriage along with regular marriage

(changed) On List, alpha display or numeric display if you double click a name to go to Edit, it now returns to the list screen when you close Edit

(new) It prints family notes on Group Sheets

(new) If you have Notes attached to Pictures, those notes are exported to gedcom and imported from gedcom.

(new) Prints source that person is a Child of parents on Group, and Register and Indented reports (that is the source that shows on the Children grid on the Edit screen)

(new) Prints source and notes for alternate names on group and book reports

(new) Sets the language for RTF files so that spell check in Word loads correct dictionary

(fixed) Collapsed ancestor was not saying "see generation x" if you asked for no duplicate cousins

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.26 are below)

(new) On Gedcom Export you can pick which people to include in the gedcom (instead of everyone)

(changed) On the Picture Summary for pictures attached to people, it now has buttons for More and Cancel instead of a pop-up window

(fixed) Fix 'device unavailable' error on Group Sheet if no C drive available on your computer.

(changed) When making RTF file, it leaves out \fcharset0 if using non-western script like Polish or Czech

(new) 7 generation ancestor chart (pick Options from top menu on ancestor chart). This option is either for large paper or very small printer fonts (4 point)

(changed) The option for ref num on ancestor chart is visible now and saves if you pick Save Option.

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.25 are below)

(fixed) On Group sheet report if you picked All for children it would not print Event Notes for children, unless you also were also printing Sources.

(changed) Word RTF picture instructions about how to combine pictures instead of link pictures and change size of all pictures. (thanks Otto)

(changed) Convert date fields and picture path to Ansel when making gedcom file.

(changed) If you are using a foreign language and using a non-Western script font, the Edit screen shows the correct script on Names tab.

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.24 are below)

(new) On the "unconnected people" display you can have it not include people that are witnesses to an event.

(new) New Utility to globally change prepositions for a location in events. For example, you can change IN to FROM for a certain location.

(changed) Edit shows longer fields if display is 1024 by 768 screen size.

(changed) Gedcom - does not give error 75 if the file bkparam.dta is read only or the file Submittr.BK is read only.

(changed) In help file, put more information about attaching pictures, and using the "print where" column and the "size" column for pictures.

(fixed) Fixed problem where if you did an anniversary report for Entire database, it would include couple if husband alive, but wife had died.

(fixed) Fixed a problem on Group sheets with Pictures if the picture was near the bottom of the page, and the person had a lot of events, it would sometimes start a new page with a few events, then start another new page.

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.23 are below)

(changed) Changed the relationship calculator to search 8000 ancestors instead of 4000 ancestors.

(changed) New language translations for German, Norwegian, and Danish.

(fixed) Fixed a problem where sometimes the italic title of a source was the wrong font size when making an RTF file

(fixed) Fixed an error that happened sometimes when making HTML group sheets for only one family if there were multiple spouses and you asked for Event Notes also.

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.22 are below)

(fixed) Fixed some formatting problems when printing Ahnentafel Book with siblings and with pictures.

(new) On the Tree chart, if you have trouble selecting a larger paper size, press ALT+F5 and pick size of paper just before printing.

(fixed) Fixed a problem where sometimes when making Group sheet to HTML file an error occurred if only doing one family.

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.21 are below)

(fixed) Sometimes the option to backup to CD for XP users was not working correctly. XP users should use this version or newer if they want to backup to CD.

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.20 are below)

(fixed) The new option to show the divorce option even if blank is now saved if you pick Save Options.

(fixed) The "cause of death" field did not use Ansel characters in Gedcom.

(changed) If you are doing a Backup of over 20000 names, the default now is to not also backup external note files. This is because if a person is using a huge database like the "Grandma 4" database that has no external note files, the backup routine spent a lot of unnecessary time searching for note files. If your database is over 20,000 names and it does have external note files, then turn that option back on before doing the backup.

(changed) When making an RTF file with pictures, there are now 2 options on the RTF tab. One is to have the actual picture linked and the other option is to have a text box the size of the picture with the name of the picture there. After you load the RTF file into Word or Word Perfect, you should first save the file as a .DOC file or .WPD file and then continue working on the file.

(fixed) Made some more changes to help the S show up in the Source column the first time a source is added.

(changed) Made a change to help the Backup to CD when using Win XP for the Danish language.

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.19 are below)

(new) Includes Event Notes in Group HTML files.

(new) Shows Religious or Civil marriage information for Children on Group sheet when printing the compressed option.

(new) Option to have Divorce event print even when blank on Book reports.

(fixed) Fix Overflow problem on Group sheets if there were long external text files when making HTML output.

(fixed) Sometimes a new feature (like printing children on the Ahnentafel Book) will cause a new bug, and I have fixed the "subscript out of range" error that happened if you picked the option for Children AND the option to show which spouse was the parent AND asked to exclude data for living people.

(new) When printing a Book report, if the note ends with ! or ? then it will not put a period after it.

(new) When exporting a Book report to RTF format, if you ask for Pictures, it will put the name of each picture in Hidden Text so you can View the hidden text in your word processor, then copy and paste the picture names when you Insert pictures. This is a test way of doing it, and look for a better solution in future versions. (see changes in 6.1.20 above)

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.18 are below)

(new) When viewing the list of existing master sources, it will show a check box for the parts of the source so you can see which parts are set for printing (without having to open the source screen to view the check boxes.)

(fixed) On Group sheet, if excluding data for living people, it was not showing parent names for second spouse.

(fixed) On Book reports, if doing Odd or Even pages only, and then if you turned off page numbers for the index, the page numbers stayed off for the next set of Odd or Even pages.

(fixed) If doing a Gedcom import, and if an event had a 2 NOTE followed by a 2 CONT line and then there was a 2 SOUR line, the source was not importing correctly.

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.17 are below)

(new) When creating HTML files for Group sheets, there is an option for extention .HTML not just .HTM

(new) On the Event Note screen, it will show the person name also.

(fixed) When printing Event Notes, if there were several short lines in an internal textfile, it was not checking for bottom of page and not doing form feed.

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.16 are below)

(fixed) On Book reports, the new option of having dates in the Index while making an RTF file would sometimes cause "born bp." to print before a baptism date for a child. The problem only happened if you had all 3 conditions, 1. dates in index. 2. making RTF file. 3. child had no birth date but did have baptism date.

(fixed) When making HTML Group sheets, if there are Notes, the paragraphs in the Notes will not be combined into one large paragraph now.

(new) When making HTML Group sheets, in addition to picking a background file, you can pick a background color if you know the correct hex number. If it starts with # then it is BGCOLOR instead of BACKGROUND file. For example: #0000CC is dark blue. And #FFFFe8 is the light yellow that is on the main screen of the BKWIN web site. More details about BGCOLOR will be given later, or you can search the web for information about BGCOLOR

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.15 are below)

(changed) Collapsed ancestor chart can now show 5000 people instead of 2500 at one time.

(new) There is a new option to print today’s date on Count of Descendants

(fixed) Fixed a problem on Gedcom import/export when names contained the foreign letters a and o with ~ over the letters

(changed) When you press F8 to jump to Location select, the list now has the focus - so down arrow moves to second location, not first

(changed) Word search "any field" will find Repository lines also

(changed) When viewing repository list, double click a repository to select it

(changed) Can print full paragraphs on List, Sources.

(fixed) Ahnentafel Book with Siblings - if you asked for only born, died for siblings, it was printing everything for siblings

(new) When making HTML files for Group sheets, there is an option to enter the name of a background file (background for each HTML page)

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.14 are below)

(new) On File, Options, Edit screen there is a new option to limit the number of matching names to 1000 at a time (instead of the normal 4000 at a time). This is to solve a problem where some computers have a problem or use up too much memory when trying to list 4000 in the listbox.

(new) On Edit if you are changing an event from something with a location to something with a description (like Occupation) it would disconnect any source attached to the old event. Now it gives a message and a chance to Cancel the change if you want to check out the source before deleting it.

(new) On the screen that shows one picture (when you click on a picture to show it) there is a new option to reduce large pictures to 800 by 600. (It still has the old option to reduce it to 640 by 480)

(fixed) On Custom Lists, if you typed 93 in for the field name and you did not double click on the 93 on the right, you would get an error "invalid use of null". Now you can type in 93 manually if you want without getting the error.

(fixed) On the Edit screen, if you pressed F8 for a location search and then pressed F6 to add a source, sometimes the S would not show up in the column. It did show the S if you clicked the S column with the mouse, but using F6 after F8 sometimes caused a problem.

(new) On Custom Lists, there is a field 77 which will show the Title for a person (from the Names tab on Edit). Also there is an opton to "show name titles" on the Book reports.

(fixed) On ahnentafel custom report if you clicked the up and down arrows for number of generations, it sometimes did not change the results for the report.

(new) On the Group sheets, it will print the individual events in the same order as you have them on the Edit screen. It used to print all Events, then all Other things (like occupation and religion) at the end.

(changed) On the Edit screen when it showed the Mother and Father name, if the name included the & character, that characters was not showing.

(fixed) When importing a gedcom file of over 30,000 people, the gauge on the screen was moving too slowly and way only at about 5% when done.

(fixed) When making an RTF book report, if a source footnote had text that included hard carriage returns, the carriage returns were not causing a new line.

(new) On Ancestor Chart multi-page, it did not allow for a starting number other than 1, but now it allows a different starting number.

(new) New option on Ahnentafel Book report to show Children of each ancestor.

(new) New option on Ancestor chart to show Children of each ancestor (however it may get too crowded in the last generation)

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.13 are below)

(fixed) On group sheet, if remarriage to same person (same couple remarries), "his age her age" was same as first marriage

(changed) The new Backup option for XP users should work OK for users of the English version of Windows, but may still need some work for users of non-English versions of Windows XP. If you can not get the new option to work, contact John Steed and we should be able to modify the program to get it to work for you.

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.12 are below)

(fixed) Uses the tag 2 NICK instead of 1 NICK for nicknames in Gedcom export.

(fixed) Sometimes if you deleted a Witness, then added a Witness it showed a birth date from the first witness on the screen.

(new) Windows XP uses a different method for copying files to a CD-R so with this version, there is a new button on the Backup screen just for XP users. If it does not work correctly notify John Steed. What it should do when you click the new button is copy the files to a temporary folder that XP uses and then XP should notify you that you have files waiting to write to a CD. If you have XP and if the new button does not show up automatically, then press the F6 key on your keyboard while you are on the Backup screen. Do not try to use this new button if you do not have XP.

(changed) If you were getting the message "not using NTARRAY" because your database was over 500,000 names, then you should not get that message now.

(changed) On Gedcom export if you pick DOS character set it uses the tag 1 CHAR ASCII and not 1 CHAR IBMPC

(fixed) On Gedcom import, if the ID numbers in the gedcom file were over 15 characters long, it would sometimes cause an error.

(fixed) Sometimes on the Ancestor Box chart, it would show a wrong marriage date for the starting person

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.11 are below)

(new) To find all "Never Print" notes, use Word Search, Any Field, and press the F8 key and then select "Only never print notes". That will also find the Never Print notes even if the word to search for at the top is blank.

(new) On the File, Utility, Global search and replace screen there are two new items. One will let you change an event type. For example, you can change all events called Christened to Baptized. You could also change to a custom event name if you have been using a standard name and now want to use a custom name you have added on the Edit screen. The other new item on the search and replace screen is that you can change a Name type. There was a typo in BK 6.0 and one name was called "Formally known as". That has been changed to "Formal name" in this version. If you used that name type and intended it to be "Formerly known as", then you can use this global change routine to change it to that name type.

(fixed) The words "other spouse" showed in HTML group sheet only in English - now the translators can enter their translation into workfile line 3834

(fixed) Will export the "common law" marriage event to gedcom even if no date or location.

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.10 are below)

(fixed) 07-Dec-2002 fixed a "Type Mismatch" error on Group Sheets that was in the 05-Dec-2002 version.

(new) You can add custom events on the Edit screen. To create a custom event, from the top menu pick Add, Custom Event and then it will be on the normal event list. When adding a custom event, be sure to spell it correctly (the way you want the event name to print on Group sheets and Book reports. This new feature is for registered users only.

(fixed) Fixed an "illegal function" error if the picture was too wide on the Book reports.

(fixed) Fixed an "overflow" error on Group sheets if it was a large database. The problem started with the new feature for printing Sources for Notes a couple versions ago.

(fixed) Fixed a problem where if you tried to jump to the Edit screen from the Alphabetical Display by double clicking, it did not work if you also had the option set to ask for a person when opening the Edit screen.

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.9 are below)

(new) Some foreign language versions have been updated so there are less English words now. (Norwegian, Danish)

(new) There are 4 options now on the Book reports for the line that starts out "He/She married…."

(fixed) On the Edit screen, if you changed spouses, it did not always update the * on the Notes or Picture tab.

(new) Some screen colors were changed to stop a problem when using "High contrast black" color scheme.

(fixed) If you deleted a spouse, and there were children attached to those parents and those children had a S column source on the Child grid, that source will be removed now.

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.8 are below)

26-Oct-02 Sometimes in Lists it would not print in Landscape

25-Oct-02 In Group sheet if Notes had a Source, sometimes it printed the source number after every paragraph.

24-Oct-02 Fixed error 9 on Group Sheets if sources for note for child

(fixed) On Group sheets you can print a Blank group sheet with selected events.

(new) On the Box chart, if you have a printer with large paper, then after setting paper size with File, Printer Setup, you can also press ALT+F5 to enter a paper size and the routine will then make each section that size.

(new) On Picture Summary, there is a new top menu with options (currently English only)

(fixed) Fixed a problem if you were using Word Search to find people and then adding Notes to a person then returning to Word Search and adding note s to other people. The notes could link to the wrong person. Quality check will find if that has happened in the past.

(fixed) Quality check will find problems if two people are linked to the same Internal Textfile

(fixed) On the Alphabetical Display, if you pick File, Print it will put the last name first

(fixed) On Gedcom Export, if an event is blank but it has an Event Note, it will still export the event and note

(new) Added Sources for Notes on the Group sheet

(new) If Restore finds two different types of backup files on your backup diskette (regular and compressed), it will let you pick which to restore.

(new) New option on RTF tab to have born or born/died dates after the names in the index. (currently English only)

(fixed) On Gedcom Import if an event had a dual date (like between x and y), and the next event had no date, it picked up the previous date.

(fixed) On book reports if printing alternate names, it will print "Hebrew name" and not "hebrew name"

(fixed) When making HTML Group sheets, if you are excluding data for living people, it will still link to the parents of a person.

(fixed) Fixed (I think) where Ahnentafel would sometimes start with very large numbers the second time a report was run.

(fixed) Fixed a problem where on the Indented report, if you were Excluding data for living people, it would sometimes print a spouse name twice.

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.7 are below)

(fixed) Fixed a problem with spacing after the heading if making Paragraphs from Custom List screen and picking RTF output.

(fixed) Fixed a problem when making RTF files for Word Perfect 7

(fixed) Fixed a problem with Group sheets when printing All data for children with the new events, it would sometimes not do a correct form feed.

(fixed) Fixed a problem in Gedcom Export with two part last names starting with Le

(fixed) Fixed some Gedcom Import problems when reading a file from Family Treasures.

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.6 are below)

(fixed) If you used the new option in 6.1.5 on the Register Book Report for all events without separate paragraphs, and if you did not ask for Modified Register Report then it would print only odd numbers for people like 1, 3, 5, 7. This is fixed in 6.1.6 version.

(fixed) Fixed a problem on Group sheet HTML output (regarding the link from unmarried children).

(fixed) Word search Any Field also searches the mailing address fields now.

(fixed) The Direct Lineage report (Descendants) sometimes would only find the direct lineage relationship for 40 generations instead of up to 60.

(fixed) Under some circumstances, making an RTF Book report would give an error 5.

(fixed) If you are using a screen font with Eastern European script, it shows better on the Tree and Box displays.

(fixed) Making an RTF output Book report with Endnotes and no repeats sometimes had an extra space after the comma between multiple footnote numbers.

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.5 are below)

(new) On the Book reports, you can select the new events, without also having to pick "separate paragraphs"

(fixed) Sets correct character set on Ancestor display screen if you are not using Western script font.

(changed) On Group sheets, when making HTML file, if a person is not married and the person is both on a family page as a child and also on a separate page as a single person, the Index will point to the page with the single person and the family page where they are a child will also link to the single person page.

(fixed) On the Alphabetical List when picking field 96 only, it was doing a form feed after each name (unless you did a Numeric List of field 96 previously.)

(changed) On Group sheets, if you pick the option to 'omit blank events' it will still print the events "no children" and "never married" if a person has those events.

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.4 are below)

(new) New type of Word Search called "event search" where you can look for any one event for a person. (search new events)

(new) New option to print only certain message lines. So if you have a note set to print ‘only if ask for 3’ then you can print only those notes, or all notes except those or whatever you choose.

(fix) On the Register Book report, if you asked to exclude details for living people, and if a child had died, but the spouse was still living, and that couple had no children, it would sometimes not exclude the details for the spouse.

(fix) Box chart was not printing page numbers even if requested.

(fix) Version 6.1.3 would label the first person on the Ahnentafel Report "parents" if you did the report more than one time without stopping the program.

(fix) Group sheets, was printing sources for child events even if requested to not print child sources.

(fix) Word Search was sometimes not searching the entire external file when searching Notes.

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.3 are below)

(new) You can print up to 199 generations on the Descendant report and the Ahnentafel reports

(new) On the Ahnentafel reports, the numbering used to stop at 1 billion. Now it continues up to 1,000,000,000,000,000,000.

(fix) Fixed a problem when exporting a Gedcom file if a note started with a carriage return before the first line of text.

(fix) Fixed "return without gosub" error on Word Search, Any Field, with sources searched also.

(fix) Sometimes the book report would say "Partner" for a married couple.

(new) Added Help Topic 300 for "add a source to a range of people."

(fix) Word Search will also search Event Notes when on the "Any Field" tab.

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.2 are below)

(new) Option on Gedcom export to not export the Abbreviation field (English only)

(fix) Fixed a problem when importing a Gedcom file with foreign characters in an event note.

(new) If you pick the option to put birth and death dates on the index, it will omit them if you are excluding living people.

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.1 are below)

(new) Utility to add a Source to a Range of people. (English only)

(new) Option to show the birth and death dates on the printed index for a report (not available for RTF index yet and also see above 6.1.2 to omit dates in the index for Living people)

(new) Prints the Source for a Note on the book reports.

(new) Prints "family" Notes on the book reports.

(fixed) The Delete Unused Sources routine will now find the problem of an old source that was attached to a deleted person or that was attached to a deleted name from a Name grid.

(fixed) Sometimes pressing F1 on the Ancestor Box chart displayed the wrong help screen.

(fixed) On the Custom Lists, picking fields 92 and 95 was not working correctly, but picking 95 and 92 was OK.

(fixed) On the Ahnentafel List, if picking fields 86 or 87 or 88, the ahnentafel number was overwriting the name.

(fixed) On Gedcom Export, the Age for living people was sometimes showing 17 instead of the age you picked the previous time.

(new items or items fixed by 6.1.0 are below)

(fixed) Gedcom import sometimes had a problem with FTM style Note lines

(fixed) Group sheet, Create HTML with pictures would omit the first picture unless you picked "print separation lines"

(new) On the Picture Summary screen, if you press the F6 key before you pick File, Print, All Pictures Attached to People, it will print the Heading for the picture instead of the file name of the picture.

(new) On the Book reports (Register, Indented, Ahnentafel) and on Group sheets there is a new option to print sources as footnotes, but without the page numbers that are attached to each footnote. Using this option will give you less footnotes if you have cited the same source several times, but with different page numbers. To use this option, click the option for Sources with Footnotes, and then press the F7 key and it will add "no page num." to the line. Note that this option will not currently be saved when you pick Save Options.

(new items or items fixed by 6.0.100 are below)

(fixed) Gedcom Export sometimes had a problem with ABT or BEF followed by only a year.

(fixed) Gedcom Export now converts Event Notes to Ansel

(changed) New version of Grid on Edit screen to fix the problem where it would sometimes lock up after typing certain ALT or CTRL keys.

(new items or items fixed by 6.0.99 are below)

(fixed) When adding a new master source with a repository, sometimes the repository did not stay connected to the source.

(changed) Changed the Word Perfect 9.0 option to be the same as Word Perfect 6.0

(fixed) The word Nickname was uppercase in the Book reports for spouses.

(fixed) Fixed the "Type Mismatch" error on Merge if the database being added had more sources than the database being added to.

(changed) A gedcom import of a large FTM gedcom file (over 10,000 names) with notes will go faster now.

(new) To make the Notes textbox larger, double click the text box. Double click it again to return to normal size.

(new) To make any of the four text boxes larger on the Source screen, double click the text box.

Click here to see older changes before 6.0.99

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Convert routine may have problems if attached files do not have a drive letter but do have a path

CTRL+ a letter for a shortcut has been changed to CTRL+SHIFT+ a letter. Only works on Edit screen currently.

The "Print Where" field for notes does nothing yet, except notes marked "never print" will not print.

The notes attached to events do not print yet (except on Book reports and Group sheets).

Regarding the "Print Where" field for pictures: If one is set to Primary, that one will be used for reports with pictures. If none is marked Primary, the one marked Group will print. If none are marked, the first will print.

The "Print Where" field for names does nothing yet, except if you select Birthday/Anniversary report.

Most reports will only show the 5 primary events for a person: Birth, Baptism, Christening, Death, Burial and one occupation and show Married and Divorced for family records. However the Group sheet report has an option to print all events if you turn off the option for basic events only. Also the Book reports can print all the new events.

If you find any other bugs in the program, please email information to John Steed and include the version number of the program you are using. Pick Help, About BK to see the version number such as 6.1.30. It is best to send bug reports directly to John Steed and not to the BK mail list.

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