FTAnalyzer v4.1.1.0 now available

I've just uploaded v4.1.1.0 with a couple of tweaks to census references report. This allows you to mark suggested inconsistent census references to be ignored. So now you can see families where you have recorded different addresses for people in the same family, and ignore those cases where its two families on the same page.

Also fixed Isle of Wight recognition and added an At Sea category as a pseudo country so that you can record births/deaths/marriages at sea without Google complaining it can't find the address.

If you haven't used FTAnalyzer recently these are the new features and updated features added since v4.0. Quite a lot of updates as you can see so why not give it a whirl and try out the new guides to using FTAnalyzer too.

New Features
Scottish 1930 Parish Boundary maps are now supported
OS Open Data 50k Gazetteer can now be used to lookup placenames
Added support for various countries regions to be recognised - initially this is UK, US, Canada, Australia
Added an Inconsistent Census refs vs locations report
Added 1911 census families Missing a Children Status report
Added 1911 census families Mismatched Children Status report
Add recognition of Ignore for Children Status
Added support for Close GEDCOM file menu
Added Missing Facts Filter
Added Duplicate Facts Filter

Updates
Colour BMD report now has adjusted tooltips for over 90s
Locations sorting is now house number agnostic
Add version string to database export filename
Added Regions recognition and map historic to modern counties for UK counties
Added regions and alternate spellings recognitions for England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, UK Islands, USA, Canada, Australia
Locations tab Treeview and other locations sub tabs now display in bold recognised regions. This should help users tidy up regions
Recent Files menu now greyed out if no recent files
Added Canadian Province Postal code support
Added Support for Custom tag Military Service
World Wars results can now be limited to just those men with known military facts
Add Random Surname Census Search to Census Tab
Census refs visible on source facts report
OS Geocoding sets found location and type based on what was found
OS Geocoding also now uses Fuzzy search and identifies matches with OS Fuzzy search. This allows matches where the names are not exact.Added random surname select to Colour Census
OS fuzzy search now works on missing parish names
OS fuzzy search checks to see if within suitable distance of previously found Google partial/level mismatch
People form now allows shift double click to see family colour census report
Children Status picked up from NOTE tag as well as EVEN tag
Missing Facts report is now limited to a single report fact per person and double clicking an individual gives individuals facts
Add Children status family name column for easier sorting
Add check for children status total = alive + dead
Loose births makes sure the individual would be of marrying age
Loose births checks persons birth is before parents die

 

The registration period if its a quarter will be a range thus the calculation SHOULD take account of the range. So a birth Q1 is taken to be a 4 month range Dec-Mar. A father's death is ok if child is born within 9 months +/- the birth range. A mother death/child death should be within 1 quarter etc. If its not quite working that way let me know and I'll investigate but it seems ok so far.

 

The orange is used to indicate where you have entered a lost cousins fact but you are missing a census fact ie:the orange is a warning that something's not quite right. If you have no orange ones that's a good thing.

Hovering over any colour in the colour reports should pop up a tooltip to tell you what it means.

PS. Many thanks for the kind words.

 

The zero padding is for sorting regularity so that a1 doesn't sort next to a10 and a100.

eg: without zero padding sorting would give
a1, a10, a100, a11, a12, a13, a14, a15, a16, a17, a18, a19, a2, a20, ...

 

The zero padding fixes innumerable issues with poor GEDCOM IDs the a large number of programs out there don't actually tell you what the ID is or allow you to set it so for most users they have no control over IDs so the zero padding means that the IDs can be sorted. Without the zero padding these users would have numerous unsortable reports.

Unfortunately the auto updating is entirely down to how the Microsoft Click Once works, so sadly I have absolutely no control over that. The way Notepad++ and others work is that they have their own custom updating code which is possible because the software is hosted on the companies website. FTAnalyzer is hosted on Microsoft's free Codeplex site so I have to use what they make available or pay for a hosting site. As you might imagine for an entirely free voluntary program I'm not keen to pay for site hosting to add those sorts of features. If I hosted on a free site the issue is that I'd lose all the integration features of Codeplex. So when someone raises an issue on the site it shows inside Visual Studio the program I use to write FTAnalyzer so I can tag the issue against particular bits of code and mark things as fixed. On a different freeware site I'd lose that. Plus I'd have to write and maintain my own updating code which would include having to add in all the security features Microsoft's Click Once provides free of charge.

So sorry whilst I understand why it can be frustrating it isn't something I plan on changing.

 

I just leave mine running, and only close it once a week to check if there have been any updates

 

Sadly there are not likely to be any updates this side of Easter 2015. I'm in an extremely busy period at work and just don't have the energy to be bothered to do anything on a PC when I get home from work.

 

Personally, and I think I speak for many other users as well, we all appreciate how many hours you've already put in for free to develop an extremely useful and friendly tool that enables us to correct our family tree data, identifies missing data and allows us to view where our ancestors lived and moved around the world.

Thank you Alexander