Family Matters
Copyright 1995 - 1999 Ray Nicklas dba MatterWare
All Rights Reserved
10 January 1999

Version Release Information:

**** 1.00 through 2.00 - Mid 1994 through Sep 1995 ****
- Development, beta, and widely distributed release

**** 2.01 Oct 1995 through 2.42 April 1996 ****
- Incorporated MS Access Jet 2.5 Service Pack upgrade
  including OLE 2.02
- Free-formatted dates with year only, month & year, etc with
  qualifiers Abt, Bef, Aft, Est, Cal, and Int
- Added print selections by Current, All, or Family Surname
- Added Descendancy Form and Report
- Remember Form Size and Position menu item added
- Added Descendancy to show burial info if no died info available
- Recognize children without parents on GEDCOM import,
  and created dummy parent and family record
- Enabled GEDCOM import of verbose FTW pseudo-tags

**** 3.0x - Sep - Nov 1996 ****
- Added built-in support for unlimited events
- Added Event View form for event summary and seek to other forms
- Changed functionality of "Nav" forms to be "View" forms
- Added access to Notes and Events on Fam View Form
- Replaced Ind Nav Link and Delete/Unlink control with 
  Group Form button ribbon and Ind View Delete button to make Link,
  Unlink, Delete, and Family Create actions more straightforward
- Re-designed Pedigree Form for lower resource utilization,
  simplified use, and primary/spouse link/unlink
- Enhanced date calculations so (for instance) Aft 1880 sorts after 31 Dec 1880
- Added Group Form action button enabled when multi-spouses present
- Added date qualifiers Bet, FromTo, From, and To capability
- Consolidated menus and distributed functions; added Database menu
- Changed Family Group Form double-clicks to buttons, for clarity
- Clarified GEDCOM file-name browse button
- Added GEDCOM import capability of older GEDCOM from PAF 2.00
- Added Report Menu for instant previews
- Added new List reports (Ind, Fam, Event)
- Improved report preview/setup/print scheme
- Set button text color to windows system color
- Considerable functionality added to Pedigree Form

**** 3.10 - Jan 1997 ****
- Added HTML automatic Web Site generation
- Added Chronicles database, replacing and expanding To-Do
- Fixed GEDCOM Fam Event output on date ranges
- Ignored incoming GEDCOM events with just a "N"
- Fixed sometime Ind View group-seek error
- Improved Child data on Family Group Report
- Family Group Form startup defaults to Home Family

**** 3.20 - Mar 1997 ****
- Added Source Repository database, form, and report
- Added GEDCOM import/export of Chronicles and Respositories
- Added Quick-Print on Family Group, Pedigree, and Descendancy forms
- Added Back functions to Ind View and Fam View
- Fixed Death_Event_Already_Exists error
- Fixed Family Quantity count error
- Fixed Event Dictionary open error
- Fixed FamilyQuan error on manual GroupForm person creation
- Added Soundex codes to Family Group View Form and Report
- Added Soundex code to Individual Reports
- Added Event View Form Surname and Event-type selections
- Added Quick-Print to Event Form, with report content controls
- Added ability to edit Place Names on Event View Form
- Fixed Web site generation when null surname
- Added This-Surname and This-Soundex choices to Descendancy
- Fixed a web site generation gendex.txt generation bug

**** 3.20b - Apr 1997 ****
- Fixed database upgrade bug
- Fixed GEDCOM address import bug
- Improved GEDCOM import from Expert Personal Roots
- Fixed another Family Quantity count error
- Fixed Snapshot when file already exists

**** 3.21 - June 1997 ****
- Removed unregistered web generation family-quantity limitation
- Replaced RelationForm with built-in Relationship calculation
- Added Relationship Calc Tool, and Set_All_Relationships capability
- Fixed 'Data too long for field' error on Repository GEDCOM import
- Fixed From/To and Between dates GEDCOM import
- Significantly improved speed of GEDCOM import and export
- Added 'Tools' menu; moved items from deleted 'Database' menu
- Added Soundex_of_surname calculation tool
- Added elapsed calender time date calculation tool
- Fixed Group Form add father/mother parent link error
- Added Soundex code to Ind View Form
- Removed spouse surname from family sort specification
- Add Group Form Quick-Finder and GO button
- Fixed Chronicle HTML file name numbering error
- Added parent birth dates to Ind View Form
- Added Source Data Form and Report and GEDCOM I/O
- Added flexibility in person-indexing WebSite output
- Added ability to filter WebNotes from GEDCOM output
- Added Meta Keyword string for WebSite output pages
- Added choice of home page file name (index.htm, frames.htm, etc)
- Added Express vs Step-by-Step WebSite generation choice

**** 3.21a - July 1997 ****
- Fixed Web gen where some persons would inadvertantly be marked Living

**** 3.30 - August 1997 ****
- Allowed up to twenty family records prior to registration
- Final fixes on Ind / Death_Event linkages
- Fixed Source Form record sorting
- Allowed Full Permissions to database for third party developers
- Fixed sometimes Chronicles Report initial blank page when large records
- Added Sort_Family_Records Tool for event-based (i.e., marriage) sort
- To assist Form space use, added Date_Field_Width to be set in preferences
- Removed IndView GroupSeek message
- Added Quick-Print to Ind View form
- Added birthdates to Pedigree person-selection lists
- Added birthdates to Event View person list
- Added new sort selections capabilies to Event View Form
- Added event groupings capabilies to Event View Form
- Added automatic fill-in of likely child surnames
- Added scaling and auto-scaling of Pedigree Form to preferences
  and screen size separate from other form scaling and settings
- Added Family Matters Hints display at startup
- Improved GEDCOM import for FTMfW @NOTES and Family Origins long SOURces
- Added support for Old Style, New Style, and double-dating
- Fixed "can't convert" date error concerning month of June

**** 3.30a - September 1997 ****
- Fixed paste of relationship when field is null
- Fixed tab after new spouse surname error
- Fixed edit_without_update error on database update
- Fixed Spouse unlink inability on Group Form
- Fixed installation vs default directory error
- Fixed missing Chronicle Link in web Family Index
- Fixed output Web of very long (over 32K) note or chronicle
- Fixed Chronicle record report pagination

**** 3.30b - September 1997 ****
- Fixed inabilty to disable Hint Form
- Fixed Notes GEDCOM output when line over 70 chars without break
- Fixed Chronicle report when no location and/or no description

**** 3.30c - October 1997 ****
- Removed duplicate initialization in Hints, to speed starting
- Fixed Name_not_found_error when upgrading database from 3.10
- Fixed Group Report preview current or surname error
- Fixed errors after sex_not_specified message during gedcom export
- Fixed PrintTocInd_Invalid_Use_of_Null error during web generation

**** 3.30d - November 1997 ****
- Fixed Domain Function error on Source PrintForm PrintButton activation
- Fixed Form_AfterInsert error when creating family for new child 

**** 3.31 - December 1997 ****
- Set Child LikelySurname to be properly set under add'l circumstances
- Set FamilyQuan (for GroupForm button) to be properly set under add'l circumstances
- Fixed Go_To_New activation from Records menu
- Fixed GEDCOM Export for phantom families with multiple children
- Fixed Pedigree Report preview for specified surname
- Added report of path error if editor not found
- Set group View to display most recent family after family delete/unlink
- Fixed family View Notes action on down arrow
- Allowed new parents family to find multiple children of same parents

**** 3.31a - December 1997 ****
- Fixed report to user during GEDCOM export when gender is not specified
- Added heading titles to Group and Person Reports
- Moved parent information on reports to below relationship, as on screen views
- Computed soundex when LikelySurname used on added children
- Eliminated blowup when group, Fam, or Ind viewed deleted records

**** 3.31b - February 1998 ****
- Clarified New database File dialog
- Increased surname length on Person and Group Reports
- Accepted non-US Windows95 month format for date calculator
- Fixed date year web output, when only year specified
- Fixed error when Go button clicked on deleted records
- Fixed RelationshipButton "Couldn't Update" Ind and Group error
- Fixed GEDCOM export DescripText not found error
- Fixed GEDCOM Repository reference in Source export record error
- Fixed Ind and Fam List reports when surname specified

**** 3.31c - April 1998 ****
- Fixed sometime dimmed death displayed on Pedigree
- Fixed sometime ghosted events and children on blank records
- Fixed sometime dimmed death displayed on Pedigree
- Ignored KindredKonnections _KKNB GEDCOM tag with binary content
- Some improved GEDCOM name importing

**** 3.31d - August 1998 ****
- Some more improved GEDCOM name importing
- Fixed LineNo 230.001 name not found when upgrading from level 2.00
- Fixed tab to next Group Form record
- Fixed family info not output to web site when no children

**** 3.31e - September 1998 ****
- Fixed sometimes "death event already exists"
- Fixed date bug allowing > 4-digit year
- Fixed registration crash on too-long KeyCode

**** 3.31f - October 1998 ****
- Some minor cleanup during 4.01 testing

**** 3.31g - December 1998 ****
- Fixed soundex handling of Lloyd and Pfister

**** 3.32 - January 1999 ****
- Updated copyright notice to include 1999
- Added ability to recognize dates missing qualifier/year space like "C1900"
- Fixed International date local month string processing longer than 3 characters
- Improved display of date text entered in error

**** Notice ****
This 16-bit version of Family Matters is continuing to be supported. 
Bug correction and minor enhancements will continue for the foreseable
future. However, major new features and innovations will be limited
to the 32-bit version, designated Family Matters 97. If you are registered
for this version, then you are automatically registered for Family
Matters 97. Visit MatterWare's web site at http://members.aol.com/matterware

To update from previous versions, just COPY (please don't run SETUP)
the following files into their designated directories:

Path and File Name		Version Last Updated
------------------		--------------------
\FAMAT\FAMAT.HLP		3.30
\FAMAT\PRINTME.WRI		3.30
\FAMAT\FAMAT200.MDB		3.32
\FAMAT\FMEMPTY.MDB              3.30
\FAMAT\LICENSE.TXT		3.32
\FAMAT\ORDER.TXT		3.32
\FAMAT\README.TXT		3.32
\FAMAT\VERSIONS.TXT		always (you're reading VERSIONS.TXT)
\FAMAT\FMDATA\FMSAMPL.MDB       3.30
\FAMAT\swu2016.dll		3.10 (introduced in 3.10)

Files from FMxxx1.ZIP that are NOT needed in \FAMAT for Version Upgrade
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admin.inf   famat.ini   setup.inf   setup.ini   setup.lst   setup.stf
