Compliments, and a wish list

[chris andrews]

I've only just started using the package but I am impressed. 
It is very helpful in manipulating my trees, and I am glad I paid for the upgrade.
It's a sophisticated programme which helps me a lot.

I've used it a lot since I purchased it. All genealogists would benefit from owning.

The "help" tab asks us for a wish list.

Things that are on my wish list are as follows, but in saying this, as I am new, they may be there already, and I haven't been clever enough to use them. Nonetheless, my wish list:

1. The ability to print EVERYTHING in a GEDCOM, not just around an identified home person.
    That makes it very easy for me to work out the isolated people not connected to any tree.
    They could appear as isolated families, unconnected, of their own, so it is simple to edit my tree.

2. When I do a descending or an ascending tree, I would really like ALL spouses to appear as a separate tree entry with their partner.
    That way, several sequential marriages for one person become obvious.

3. As a consequence of (2), on an ascending or descending tree, I would often like to add the ancestors/descendants (including siblings at each generation)  of each spouse and this would be great.

4.  This may be a hard one, but I'd love a facility to compare TWO gedcoms and to find for me individuals in common between the two.

Many thanks for the great programme.
Good wishes for future updates.
I'd be happy to pay a fee for a subsequent update that might include these features.

Chris Andrews

[Arkluz Software]

Thanks for your enthusiastic compliments!

1. I am considering a feature based on the filters pane, where you would apply some filters to every person in the database, and see a flat list of persons matching the criteria. There would be a few more criteria, e.g. the number of parents, or of partners (which may be different than the number of marriage events that is currently available). Would this match your request?

2. On a descending tree, all spouses of each descendant are already shown (with a branch for each child the spouse had with this descendant). If you want to see the previous/subsequent partners of these spouses, and their children (which are therefore not descendants of the root person), or if you want to see previous/subsequent partners in an ascending tree, use the "other family members" option in the person description pane; they won't appear as leaves of the tree (and won't have any branch displayed), but they will be mentioned in the details of their spouse.

3. The tree grows in a single direction, either ascending or descending, and branches only show ascendants, descendants, or spouses of descendants. I have no plan to change that, as this would become really very complex.

4. comparing (and merging the differences) databases is complex and beyond the scope of this app.

Updates are and will remain free; users are however welcome to make additional supportive purchases at any time from the application menu :-) (you can't currently purchase multiple times for the same amount, but you can choose a different price).

Thanks!

[Arkluz Software]

This has been implemented in version 3. Isolated persons, as well as groups of persons with no connection at all with the rest of the database, are automatically detected and displayed. You can also perform a filter, or a selection of filters, on the whole database, e.g. to search for incoherences like improbable age at marriage, child birth, or death.