Brothers keepers updates

To read about changes in BK 7. Translators click here for Word6set 1. Version 7 has a new file structure to allow for more fields and longer fields.

All data that you entered into version 6 will transfer into BK 7. Version 7 does not use Btrieve for the database. Some users have had trouble with Btrieve or wbtrv The FindAGrave web site has links to million grave sites mostly in the USA and more memorials are being added every day. When you click the button in BK it opens your own web browser and goes to the site and starts a search.

If you do not want to see the findagrave button in BK, then click Options at the bottom right and turn off the option for FindAGrave. The new button only shows up if your screen display size is by or larger. Fixed: On May I fixed a small bug in the FindAGrave field were sometimes it was giving a new person a memorial number from a previous person. Fixed a problem on the List, Witnesses report where some witnesses were incorrectly listed as godparent.

Change: On the main BK screen, if you have more than one language file loaded for BK, you can click the button at the bottom to immediately change to the other language without going to the list of languages to pick from. Fixed a problem with Windows 10 users after a Windows 10 automatic update where BK was not able to determine if a folder or file existed. That caused errors when trying to create a new folder.

Fixed a problem on the Descendant Circle chart that happened in certain languages only. It may take some translators a few weeks to make a new translation. Normally you do not need to know the family number for a couple, but if you need it, you can turn on that option. This was on version 7.

One for Color for generations, and one for Table of Contents. Hold ALT and click the S column to add the previous source to this event. It will return and show the source name above the grid so that you know you added the correct source. Now it works both ways. Click Options at the bottom right if you want to turn off that new button. One option is to always open pictures with your default Windows program instead of the BK picture viewer.

The other option is that when you click a N column to enter the first Event Note, it will automatically go into Edit mode for a new note instead of you having to click the Edit button above the text. It was by last name in BK 6 and now BK 7 does it that way also. This is only for the English language version of the program. Fields to See sample reports on the BK web site for an example. This problem started in the previous update with the new feature of scrolling pictures.

I needed to move those buttons to the bottom instead of the top. Siblings born on the same day or 1 day apart. Also fixed an error message sometimes when adding a spouse. Pick from the top menu Edit, Mark this pereson as private, then pick one of the four types of privacy. If a person is marked as private, then the information for that person will not be printed on several of the reports.

The privacy will work on any report that currently has the option to exclude data for living people. The data for private people will be excluded on those reports even if you are not excluding data for living people. Use this to make changes to your existing custom events and facts. That is CTRL plus semicolon. If you put field number two times on your fields to include, it will print the second occupation also. Hopefully this will stop some errors when printing reports when data is in one of those folders.

Let me know if that helps or not if you are someone using those folders. Now users can also add a Custom Fact. The difference is that a Fact has a Description and not a Location. These new custom facts can be printed on Group Sheets and Book reports.

There are still some more changes to be made to the program before they work everywhere, but you can give feedback to John Steed if you have any problems. If things are slow already, do a File, Re-Index database.

Then with this version, the database indexes should stay more balanced to prevent a slowdown when adding new people. That error is fixed in this Sep update. I thought it was fixed in the Sep version, so if you still have the error, get this Sep version.

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