Major performance improvements when using the FamilySearch integration
Several bugs fixed
15 Jul 2021
9.3.1
Minor Bugfixes
15 Jul 2021
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
12 Nov 2020
9.2
Native version for Apple Silicon on Mac
Major user interface update for macOS Big Sur
18 Aug 2020
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
21 Jul 2020
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
15 Jun 2020
9.1
Colorize Black & 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
01 Apr 2020
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
24 Oct 2019
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
23 Sep 2019
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
02 Sep 2019
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
23 Aug 2019
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
21 Aug 2019
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
19 Aug 2019
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
13 Aug 2019
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
11 Aug 2019
9.0.3
Charts can now display the cause of events in addition to the description, date and type
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
07 Aug 2019
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
05 Aug 2019
9.0.1
Order of place name components in reports fixed
User interface customization is now retained after relaunching MacFamilyTree
Localization improvements
30 Jul 2019
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
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