The following RootsMagic news, posted by Bruce Buzbee, is from December 14, but it’s still timely for those of us so busy with Christmas that we haven’t followed the latest news, let alone downloaded our updates.
This update adds several requested features and fixes a number of issues. If you have the RootsMagic News screen come up when you start RootsMagic, it may have already notified you of this update. If not, you can do “Help > Check for Updates” from the RootsMagic menu to download and install this update. Note: We updated the list below to include a few issues we fixed in the 4.0.9.9 update.
You can also download the update from http://www.rootsmagic.com/updates/rootsmagic.
Here are the new, fixed, and updated items in this update:
- Fixed problem with crashing under Windows 2000
- Place details display for birth/death in info view at top of main screens
- The rearrange children list now displays/sorts by christen date if no birth date exists
- Added Last edited date as optional column in customizing People View
- Added the newly updated FamilySearch (as of 14 Dec 2010) website to WebSearch
- Searching by age at marriage/family events works correctly now
- Fixed several problems with Family Origins importing
- Added some minor enhancements to duplicate search
- Fixed problem with footnotes sometimes printing wrong on Research Notes report
- Private notes in PAF import are now privatized up to the next blank line
- Fixed FTM import of citations with no master source and no footnote text
- Fixed FTM import when multiple birth facts exist
- Source (and detail) text and comment editors honor the font size selected for note editing
- Minor fixes in website creation
- Can now filter the NFS list based on named groups or ancestors of a person
- NFS can remember users login and password, and can automatically login to NFS
- Added numerous minor enhancements to NFS functions
- Fixed a bug which crept into 4.0.9.8 which kept RM from saving an event in the edit screen unless you clicked the “Save” button. Version 4.0.9.9 once again saves event data as soon as you move on like it used to. (4.0.9.9)
- Fixed bugs in several of the lists (4.0.9.9)
- Fixed an incremental search issue (4.0.9.9)
- Fixed an occasional bug when printing Family Ordinance Requests (FOR) (4.0.9.9)
