Bug fix for rare "memory access error" on program startup. Version number unchanged.
Version 7.6June 2011
New - Tool to find and relocate missing attachments
New - Tool to add a "deceased" fact to people likely to be dead
New - Select fact places from a list of existing place names
New - Thumbnails of people/families displayed on main data pages
New - Personal Summary reports optionally including ancestors or descendants
New - Copy personal/family summaries to the clipboard as text
New - "Drag-n-drop" to re-order on-screen display of personal/family facts
Updated - Optionally remember default sort-order of List of People
Updated - Improved documentation of book-style reports
Updated - Improved support of repositories
In some reports, the user-defined order of children was not always honoured. Fixed.
Minor bug fixes and program enhancements.
Version 7.5February 2011
New - Optional display of personal thumbnails in Enhanced Tooltips
New - Specify the surname appearance as upper-case, initial capital, or as-entered
New - Add multiple attachments to multiple people/families in one step
New - Quickly insert people's names into attachment details
New - Optionally strip names on "privatisation" of database
Updated - GEDCOM export now supports export of only selected people
Updated - Improved GEDCOM import
Updated - Remember any user-defined fact types for subsequent re-selection
Updated - Increased generation limit in Progeny, Ahnentafel and List of Relatives Reports
Updated - Personal Digest reports can now optionally include non-BDM facts
Updated - Enhanced "shift-click" navigation in Ancestors dialog
Updated - Extended File Properties dialog
Updated - Improved date entry
Updated - Improved handling of Enhanced Tooltip options
On web pages, date-less children/siblings could display a previous person's dates. Fixed.
Minor bug fixes and programme enhancements
Minor bug fixes and program enhancements.
Version 7.4July 2010
New - Set privacy of "living" people
New - Box-style Pedigree Chart reports
New - Very concise Personal Digests report
New - List of People web page (with dates and partners)
New - Option to display last-used database on program startup
New - "Browser mode" for on-screen ancestor and descendant charts
Updated - Relationship Calculator enhanced to show lines-of-descent
Minor bug fixes and program enhancements.
Version 7.3February 2010
New - "Possible Duplicates" report
New - Full support for custom, user-defined fact types
New - Option to specify records to display on loading a database
New - Facility to merge duplicate people
New - Facility to merge identical notes, sources and repositories
Updated - Modern versions of Microsoft Word now understand the pictures in reports
Updated - Narrative-style reports now (optionally) document data source references
Updated - Improved GEDCOM compatibility
Updated - Enhanced Regnal Date Converter
Updated - "Copy and paste" of people now includes evidence
Updated - Enhanced "right-click" navigation in Ancestors dialog
Minor bug fixes and program enhancements.
Version 7.2August 2009
New - Family Statistics web-page.
Updated - Personal Events chronology report enhanced to include related events (such as sibling births/deaths).
Documentation restructured and simplified.
Lone non-biological (e.g. adopted) children were not being included in Progeny Charts. Fixed.
Minor bug fixes and program enhancements.
Version 7.1February 2009
Creation of new Repositories was accidentally disabled. Fixed.
Minor bug fixes and program enhancements.
Version 7.0.9January 2009
New - Custom Reports.
New - Full support of Repositories added.
New - Merge Places tool to assist rationalisation of place names.
Updated - Day-of-week display added to Age/Date Calculator.
Updated - Surname frequencies added to Statistics Report.
Minor bug fixes and program enhancements.
Version 7.0.8September 2008
New - Reports can be automatically viewed after generation.
New - List of Attachments report.
New - English/British regnal date converter added to Age/Date Calculator.
New - Option to log records changed during global search-and-replace.
Minor bug fixes and program enhancements.
Version 7.0.7July 2008
Updated - On-line help restructured.
Updated - "Advanced Program Settings" documentation added to manual.
Web Name Indexes now correctly support surnames with accented characters.
Minor bug fixes and program enhancements.
Version 7.0.6May 2008
Name Exceptions were "broken". Fixed.
Minor bug fixes and program enhancements.
Version 7.0.5December 2007
New - Event Places List reports all places and the events that occurred in those places.
New - Children can be arranged in a user-defined order.
New - In Family List summaries, right-click to show children.
New - Ages are displayed when hovering the pointer over dates in Main Page fact, children and name lists.
New - Word processor generation of a "master index" of names supported for Personal Summary, Family Group Sheet, Progeny and Ahnentafel Reports.
Enhanced personal navigation from main personal page. Also, press 'F8' to display a navigable list of the current person's parents, siblings, partners and children.
Improved GEDCOM import.
Minor bug fixes and program enhancements.
Version 7.0.4October 2007
New - Generate a complete web site of your database in one step.
New - Audit Report performs and reports on numerous checks of the database for errors and inconsistencies.
New - Related Causes of Death Report lists the cause of death of all the relatives of the currently displayed person - useful for exposing genetic predispositions.
New - Anniversaries Chronology Chart lists events in day-of-month order.
New - Personal Events Chronology Chart lists all events in chronological order for every person.
Updated - Personal Summary Reports can now (optionally) include brief details of the person's children.
Updated - Chronology Chart Reports now include the age of each person at each event.
Updated - Ahnentafel and Progeny Chart Reports can be limited to a user-defined number of generations.
Updated - Selected Fact Reports now include the age at each selected event (such as age at baptism, age at graduation, ages at marriage, etc). The Cause of Death fact reports the death date and age at death.
Updated - List of Relatives reports now include the "line of descent" (e.g. father's side or mother's side of family) for each relative.
Updated - Statistics report now includes the database dimensions (number of people, families, etc).
Updated - The on-line help is once again context-sensitive. Just press F1.
Report generation is now significantly faster.
Running the program from a flash drive on Windows XP SP2 is now faster.
Fixed a bug where the program could "hang" when generating a web-page for a person with multiple names.
Minor bug fixes and program enhancements.
Version 7.0.3August 2007
New - Private data can be stripped from a database. For example, maybe some people are living and would prefer to withhold their personal data from reports and web-pages.
New - Filiation (Child Relationship) Report of all those people who are a child in two or more families, or who are a non-biological child in a single family.
New - In Pick Person, Pick Family and Pick Name lists, right click on column header to show/hide a "User ID" column.
New - Generate reports on search results for later study.
Workaround implemented for a known "dll relocation" problem, caused by a Microsoft Windows XP (SP2) Security Update, that affected some users of earlier ScionPC versions. An unfortunate consequence of the workaround is that the on-line help (which is still available - just press F1) is no longer context-sensitive. Sorry. At least the program will now run correctly on that weird Internet cafe computer.
In-built "equal to" autotexts extended to the Family Facts dialog.
Autotext definition moved from Edit menu to Options menu.
Enhanced tooltips have been extended to the facts, children and names lists. Just hover the mouse pointer over an evidence checkmark.
Improved report compatibility with AbiWord word processor.
Improved GEDCOM import and export.
Minor bug fixes and program enhancements.
Version 7.0.2June 2007
New - Simple backup facility (along with optional weekly or monthly reminders).
New - In-built "equal to" autotexts for the Personal Facts dialog. This allows copying of places or details from a parent's, sibling's, partner's or adjacent person's equivalent fact.
New - Global spell-checking feature to spell check places, names, notes, sources, etc.
New - The Soundex Calculator now calculates additional phonetic codes.
New - The Age/Date Calculator can now (optionally) display "On This Day" events, and the program can export database events in a form suitable for inclusion in the "On This Day" display.
The Custom Dictionary user interface has been simplified.
Some documentation changes to clarify certain aspects of the program's operation.
