When you open your FTM 2012 next you will see an important update that not only fixes a number of bugs, but has added some new reports and functionality

The Build number is 21.00.580

Some of the goodies include.....


Ability to sync accepted and rejected hints between FTM & Ancestry

Option to include/exclude Ancestry media in synced trees

Undocumented Facts Report (Very big cheers it is great!!!!)

Outline Descendant Report, Option to list only direct descendants between an ancestor and one descendant (More big cheers it is great!!!!)

Task List, Options to include/exclude task attributes and reclaim space for items excluded

Data Errors Report, Added option to list event dates that are not valid

Ability to select multiple facts in the source citation link dialog

New Family View report Presents the ancestors, spouse, & children of a person (similar to the Family View in the People workspace)

Fact Merge Ability to merge multiple instances of the same fact type for an individual

Support for adding a spouse that is not a parent of the children listed (when adding a spouse to a single parent in the family view)

Report Enhancements

General Report Issues (These improvements affect multiple reports)

General speed improvements especially in cases where notes and/or sources are included

Saved charts & reports are now listed alphabetically

Individuals To Include dialog opens with the current person selected in the list

Relationship Chart

- Father and mother are both included (at top) when relationship goes through a set of parents

- Added option for using short place names

- Added option for automatically resizing text to fit

Individual Report

- Clearer notation in instances where a spouse is listed with no children

- Added option to include/exclude lifespan in Individual Summary header

- Added option to include/exclude individual summary on subsequent pages

Notes Report

- Added support for allowing notes to span across page breaks

Data Errors Report

- Added option to include only preferred facts

Family Group Sheet

- Added media for the selected person to the family picture dropdown

- Improved spacing and label consistency

Media Item Report

- Added option to include/exclude media notes

- Added option to include/exclude media links

Photo Album

- Improved space recovery when including date/description

Media Usage Report

- Added options to include/exclude caption, date, description, category, note

- Optimized dynamic sizing of media according to media information included

Documented Facts Report

- Added option to include/exclude citation notes

- Added option to include only preferred facts

Undocumented Facts Report

- Added option to include only preferred facts

Calendar Report

- Added option to adjust font size (five predefined sizes)


John D