Version 6 is Coming! (December
9th)
Family Historian 6 is due for release on December
9th. It will be a big and exciting release, packed
with enhancements and great new features. There
are far too many features to cover in a single
bulletin (and in any case, we want to keep some
surprises for the day), but just to whet your
appetites, we are including a sneak preview of a
just a couple of new features below – Map Windows
and Witnesses.
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Christmas Gifts, Advance Orders
and Gift Packs
Family Historian makes a great Christmas gift.
Some resellers (such as MyHistory and S&N
Genealogy Supplies) are taking advance orders of
version 6 now. Another option is to buy a download
gift pack. The price for a version 6 download gift
pack will be the same as the current price for a
version 5 download gift pack. If you buy a pack of
3 licences or more, you can save £8 on each
licence (or the equivalent in your currency). For
each licence you buy, you can print off a
certificate to give to the intended recipient
which they can then use to activate their licence
and download the software. Each certificate is
made out in the name of the recipient, and
includes your own personal message. The new gift
packs will be available on or before the release
date.
Anyone who has purchased a full copy of version 5
since October 15 can apply for a free upgrade to
version 6 when available (conditions apply).
Please see www.family-historian.co.uk/apu6.
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Feature Preview 1: the New Map
Window
Family Historian 6 will have a new workspace
window called the Map Window. You can use it to
map the locations of all the places and
events in your projects. You can even
view family movements over time, using the Time
Slider. You can choose any combination of people
and events, and filter on event types – and use
the same or different markers. Click on a marker
to view all the events that occurred there in a
popup window. This means that you can show all
your ancestors’ birth places marked in red, and
all your spouse’s ancestors’ birth places marked
in green, for example. Moving around the map, and
zooming in or out to see more or less detail, is
easy and fun. And you have a choice of two
different map styles.
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Feature Preview 2: Witnesses
Up to now, if you wanted to record that two
people got married, you would create a marriage
event for the two people. But there was no way to
record all the other people who may have
participated in the same event – such as the
bridesmaids, the best man, the ministers and the
guests. These are all what we call 'witnesses'.
Now in version 6, you can record as many witnesses
as you like for any event or attribute. The
program comes with many standard roles for these
witnesses (such as 'bridesmaid', 'best man' and so
on), but you can create as many new roles as you
like, and each role can have as many people as you
like. You can use this capability in many ways.
For example, you could use it to record the fact
that a group of people all lived together, if you
wanted to. The practical effect is to provide
richer and more fleshed-out reports, and a richer
experience when browsing, because witness details
can be accessed when viewing an event from the
point-of-view of any of the participants.
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