MacFamilyTree 9.3.3

What's new in this version:

MacFamilyTree 9.3.3
- 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


MacFamilyTree 9.3.2
- Major performance improvements when using the FamilySearch integration
- Several bugs fixed


MacFamilyTree 9.3.1
- Minor Bugfixes


MacFamilyTree 9.3
- 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


MacFamilyTree 9.2
- Native version for Apple Silicon on Mac
- Major user interface update for macOS Big Sur


MacFamilyTree 9.1.2
- 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


MacFamilyTree 9.1.1
- 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


MacFamilyTree 9.1
Colorize Black and 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


MacFamilyTree 9.0.12
- 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


MacFamilyTree 9.0.10
- 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


MacFamilyTree 9.0.9
- 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


MacFamilyTree 9.0.8
- 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


MacFamilyTree 9.0.7
- 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


MacFamilyTree 9.0.6
- 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


MacFamilyTree 9.0.5
- 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


MacFamilyTree 9.0.4
- 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


MacFamilyTree 9.0.3
- 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


MacFamilyTree 9.0.2
- 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


MacFamilyTree 9.0.1
- Order of place name components in reports fixed
- User interface customization is now retained after relaunching MacFamilyTree
- Localization improvements


MacFamilyTree 9.0
- 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