Family Matters® Copyright 1995 - 2020 Ray Nicklas dba MatterWare All Rights Reserved 18 June 2021 Version Release Information: **** 1.00 through 2.00 - Mid 1994 through Sep 1995 **** - Development, beta, and widely distributed release **** 2.01 Oct 1995 through 2.42 April 1996 **** - Various updates and releases of increasing capability **** 3.00 Sep 1996 through 3.31d August 1998 **** - Major upgrade followed by releases of increasing capability Family Matters 97 **** 4.00-4.02b (beta tests) - January-November 1998 **** - Beta test releases of 32-bit Access97-based Family Matters 97 **** 4.03 - January 1999 through 4.14e - January 2000 **** - Added ability to recognize dates missing qualifier/year space like "C1900" - Added relationship to Person List View entries - New Picture View form and Picture Report incorporated - Added ability to preview current Picture report from Picture View - Changed Web generation dialog to tabbed control, ability to control family page footer, ability to customize family pages, set person sort - Added capability to Event Dictionary to specify events that can be part of web site, and included ability in web generation - Added option to choose between Windows system colors vs. FM Classic colors - Activated Show Picture on Person View - Added Sort option to Person List View **** 4.20 - April 2000 through 4.20e - November 2000 **** - Added Citation View for Source Citation support - Expanded all Views with citation support - Added display of colors chosen on Web Generation dialog - Improved robustness of GEDCOM Import **** 4.20f - February 2001 through 4.20j1 - December 2001 **** - Set child ordering on GEDCOM output to be oldest first - Made Picture events sort by date in web output - Added choice of retaining citations when source deleted - Improved handling of relationship invalidation on Group View - Improved index.htm for better web robot indexing - Web generation now stops when family table error recognized - Added output of surnames.html for Surname Helper (website) inclusion - On Repository delete, announce how many sources linked to it - On WebSite changes generation, include files with changed background - Improved Database Compact & Repair **** 4.21 - January 2002 through 4.21f - September 2004 **** - Added Picture View text generation of included persons - Added GEDCOM input line text to Import error message - Added warning before GEDCOM import into existing file - Added better import support of PAF _UID and _AKA tags - Allowed for pasting parent link on Group View - Changed MatterWare business address **** 4.22 - January 2005 through 4.22e - August 2006 **** - Added Forward button on all Views - Added choice to sort Children births with Family events in Web output - Added choice to sort Pictures with Person events in Web output - Added choice to limit Picture size in Web output - Ordered Person links on Picture web pages by birth date - Supressed Web output of person details if Living **** 4.23 to 4.23c - July 2007 to December 2008 **** - Added option to open PersonView when GroupView child or parent not found - Added VerboseDate to DecForm, GroupReport and IndReport - Set off web picture description, place and occasion fields - Added “Show Only Relations” to PictureView - Improved editing ability in EventView Places - Interpreted more extensive date modifiers Family Matters 5.xx Beta **** 5.00.01 - March 2017 **** - Use of Access 2010, 2013 and 2016 replaces Access 97 - Picture View shows picture and associated data on the same landscape-oriented page - New List View replaces Person List and Family List and associated reports - Added birthday list - Incorporated Help, Manual and Hints into new HelpView - All form views and report-previews remember their last size and position - Output reports in PDF and other formats - Removed FMsample example database - Mouse scroll wheel allows scrolling within large text (aka memo) fields - Family Group report options moved to Print Form - Showing verbose date on picture report - Menu bar and button bar (somewhat) integrated into Microsoft "fluent" ribbon **** 5.00.02 - August 2017 **** - Fixed “Can’t save the position of a maximized window” error - Fixed EventForm Type mismatch, sorting, surname apostrophe errors - Fixed PrintForm surnames apostrophe error - Fixed CitationView Type Mismatch error - Incorporated old Order.txt, License.txt, and EULA.txt files into Help **** 5.00.03 through 5.00.08 - May and June 2020 Beta **** - Family Matters program storage within Documents structure on Windows 10 - Incorporated old Versions.txt file into Help - Mouse scroll within memo and notes fields - Increased Chooser width on all forms - Fixed GEDCOM export System Resource Exceeded error - Fixed GEDCOM export Max Locks Per File error - Bolded names when direct ancestor or descendant on Group, Person, Descendant, and List views and reports **** 5.00.09 through 5.00.12 - September 2020 and June 2021 Beta **** - Fixed GEDCOM import errors - Addressed Access unable to convert Access97 MDB database to ACCDB **** Known Shortcomings **** New versions of Microsoft Access cannot covert older database files. Work-around is to utilize an intermediate version to convert, or to contact MatterWare for assistance. The menu-bar and button-bar as not as integrated into the ribbon as I'd like. They are located in the ribbon-tab identified as Add-ins. Some GEDCOM data not imported satisfactorily. Created NEW data file that overwrites existing file raises permissions error. Work-around is to repeat the NEW file process. If you have the entire new installation set of Family Matters, you will need to have Microsoft Access 2010 or later, or download the free Access Runtime from Microsoft's website. To update, registered or unregistered, just COPY the following files into your Document structure (perhaps "C:\Users\UserName\Documents\Family Matters\") Famat500.accde (or other .accde file) FMempty500.accdb ReadMe500.txt