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New features in AGS/Omega 2.8.15

Changes

Suppression of the marriage symbol in evaluations made configurable (#578).

New features in AGS/Omega 2.8.14

Fixed bugs

Fixed a bug where a parent could no longer be changed in conjunction with a saved answer.

New features in AGS/Omega 2.8.13

Fixed bugs

Fixed a bug where large documents (over 65,535 characters) were saved in a truncated form after being edited.

New features in AGS/Omega 2.8.12

Fixed bugs

Fixed a crash when creating registers for ancestor lists with more than 63 generations in a rare constellation.

New features in AGS/Omega 2.8.11

Fixed bugs

The optimal position of an added child with the other parent is now also correctly determined if the person has no children yet, but the other parent already has children from other spouses (#566).
The alternative field order for data entry now works correctly and is also correctly described in the program help (#567).
Fixed a bug where changes to fields on the tab were not considered when saving if the changed field was the active field after triggering a message during the automatic plausibility check (#569).

New features in AGS/Omega 2.8.10

Fixed bugs

Fixed a bug where genealogical special characters in URLs were replaced by symbols in evaluations (#561).
Fixed a crash that occurred when saving a marriage. Now, the error message (#553) is displayed instead.
The quality of a marriage date is now displayed in the marriage list on the index card (#555).

Changes

In the overview of links, the filename of the affected file is displayed if errors occur (#558).

New features in AGS/Omega 2.8.9

Fixed bugs

Crash caused by insufficient error handling for corrupt directories fixed (#547).

Changes

Sorting the marriages and/or children of all persons in a list of persons (#545).

New features in AGS/Omega 2.8.8

Fixed bugs

Fixed a rare bug where "between and" dates could not be entered if only a year was entered as the second date.
Fixed a rare bug where, after switching to an "between-and" date, the data was marked as unsafe.

Changes

File names that are invalid or begin with $ or ~ will no longer be included in backup copies of files and will not be restored from existing backup copies.

New features in AGS/Omega 2.8.7

Fixed bugs

Fixed a bug where the religion of children's wives was displayed in reports even though the religion display was turned off (#540).
Corrected incorrect indentation of children in numbered evaluations in HTML format.

New features in AGS/Omega 2.8.6

Innovations

Settings for the output of linked partners in parent blocks have been expanded, so that they can now be displayed not only with full or reduced information, but also not at all ( Omega settings | Evaluations | Parent block | Partners in parent block | Linked partners ).
A new setting controls whether the reference to other children under a different number appears in the child section of reports or not ( Omega settings | Reports | Child section | Reference to other children ).
The placement of sponsors now follows the settings in all evaluations. The special treatment for ancestor and family tree lists has been eliminated.

Fixed bugs

Fixed incorrect display of the text “Evaluation(s)” above Paten in the footer (#531).
Fixed a bug where the godparents of all children were listed in the footer block, even if not all children were listed in the children's block (#532).
Fixed a crash caused by unbalanced tables during evaluations.

New features in AGS/Omega 2.8

Evaluations

The changes and new features result from the completely revised program help in the sections Evaluations and Omega settings for evaluations .

Fixed bugs

The setting " Shorten names of linked people" was always enabled.
The setting "Different surnames - Show differing surnames" did not detect deviations in all cases. For children, when this option is enabled, all surnames will now be displayed only if at least one of the child's surnames differs from all of the parent's surnames by at least the specified number of letters.
Notes in the children's section of the family newspaper were displayed in the text even though they were switched off.
Contrary to the description in the program help, the compressed register for spouses does not group together different spouses with the same name, but rather reduces the information displayed for the spouse in the register by the specified location.
Missing back-numbering for daughters without a known father in ancestral lists.
Additional information about grandparents in ancestor lists was not completely abbreviated, even though the grandparents appeared under their own number.
The confessions were in the language of the user interface and not in the language of the evaluation (#174).
Inconsistent formatting, missing non-breaking spaces and unnecessary spaces have been corrected.

Changes

The Omega settings for evaluations have been rearranged.
The display of the combined date formats */˜, †/□ and S⚭/K⚭ has been optimized:
- If the data is identical, the date will only be displayed once.
- For dates that are identical except for the day or the day and month, only the differing day or the differing day and month is displayed separately.
- If a date does not specify the day, month, or year, both dates are displayed in full for clarity, unless they are identical.
For any free text, spaces, line breaks and control characters at the end are not output.
Children with NN status are no longer considered in evaluations (since AGS 2.6 they can no longer be recorded and are not displayed on the card; when saving persons with NN children they are silently removed).
In the case of mothers appearing under their own number with children without a known father, a reference to the family is made if other legitimate children of the woman appear there.
Register headings are not displayed if the register is empty.
When cross-referencing multiple ancestors in ancestor and family tree lists, the reference is now a clickable link and more information about the person being referenced is displayed.
Registers are no longer limited to a maximum of 1,000 entries.
A bookmark is written for each heading, which is displayed in a table of contents (when outputting to an RTF file).
The number of initial letters used to structure alphabetical lists and in the table of contents of local family registers and indexes now depends on the number of entries: one for under 1,000, two for under 10,000, and three for 10,000 and above (when outputting to RTF file).
When the "Bold Numbers" setting is enabled in the Omega settings for evaluations | numbering, only the numbers themselves are highlighted in bold, not the parentheses or separators.
In ancestor and family tree lists, both the father and mother are numbered in a parent block. However, in the family blocks where this father or mother appears as a child, only the cross-reference to the lower number is shown (#78).
Cross-references to multiple numbers are now always sorted in ascending order.
The "Mark members" setting has been replaced by the option to optionally create a directory of members of a report, containing either all or only the numbered persons in a report.

Innovations

The report assistant remembers the last used evaluation format.
A log of the creation process is generated. After successful creation of a report, the log can optionally be displayed and, for numbered reports, optionally attached to the report. The log is in the language of the user interface.
People in numbered evaluations can be counted (#114).
Optionally, of the event pairs */˜, †/□ and S⚭/K⚭, only one with the highest data intensity is shown in order to achieve a shorter report (#508).
Ancestor and family tree lists optionally include a register of multiple ancestors.
Optionally, cross-references can be issued for none, only for the first, or for all further occurrences of a multiple ancestor in ancestor and family tree lists (#494).
The number of occurrences of the same multiple ancestor in ancestor and family tree lists is limited to 100. This prevents problems if the user has accidentally entered a person as their own ancestor.
The list of abbreviations can be supplemented with your own abbreviations (#140).
Place names can be abbreviated. The abbreviations are taken from the place name database. The abbreviations appear in the abbreviation list (#246).
The place index displays the documents for places, including the links contained therein (#232).
Multi-part local family history books are now possible, with each part created from its own index of persons. The parts have a continuous, shared numbering system and common indexes (#481).
Any list of persons can now be included as additional registers in a local family register (#481).
The string used to separate the two source references in combined date references is configurable (#355).
The alias for unlinked children in the children block can alternatively be displayed in the footnotes (#317). This setting applies exclusively to the alias for a child in the children block who does not appear as a parent in another family block. For children who appear as a parent in another family block, the alias is not displayed when the child appears in the children block, but only when the child appears as a parent in the parent block.
The difficult-to-understand setting "Children | Force all children" has been removed. Since AGS/Omega 2.7, family blocks in the local family register that are founded by women with children without a known father now include references to other children under different numbers.
The difficult-to-understand setting "Children | Only with matching signature" has been removed. Besides reducing complexity, this is based on the consideration that the local family register prioritizes the entire family, as far as it is known and recorded, rather than the specific place of origin of children in cases where a family has children in both included and excluded locations.
The information for a marriage in the parent block can optionally be displayed either on two lines (1. marriage with annotation, 2. spouse's name) or on three lines (1. marriage, 2. annotation, 3. spouse's name). This does not apply to the spouse's other marriages, which are always displayed on one line (#438, #463).
Information about a child's marriage in the child block can optionally be displayed in one line (1. marriage with note and spouse's name), two lines (1. marriage with note, 2. spouse's name), or three lines (1. marriage, 2. note, 3. spouse's name). This does not affect the spouse's subsequent marriages, which are always displayed on one line (#438, #439).
There is a new setting called Partners in the Parents block | Linked Partners with the options (A) Name and cross-reference or (B) Full data.
Depending on the setting, the extramarital partners in the parent block can either be sorted chronologically after the birth of the (first) extramarital child between the marriages, or they all appear at the end (#460).
There is also a register of members of an evaluation, which can be optionally switched off or contain either all or only the numbered persons of an evaluation.
Spouses of persons listed in the Register of Spouses can optionally be shown (#84). In this case, the usual list of references is omitted, and instead, the numbers next to the respective spouse are shown.
Document 1 and Document 2 can now optionally be displayed as endnotes instead of only not at all, in the text or as a footnote.
There is a new setting to optionally display footnote numbering in bold in the footer (#284). This does not affect references to footnotes following persons in the parent or child footer, which are always displayed in normal font.
There is a new setting to optionally highlight the endnote numbering in bold.
There is a new setting to optionally highlight the heading Anmerkung(en): in bold in the footer (#284).
There is a new setting to optionally highlight the heading Anmerkung(en): in the footer in the alternative font size.
There is a new setting to separate footnotes in the footer by a vertical space.
There is a new setting to separate endnotes by adding a vertical space.
There is a new setting to optionally display the headings in the children's block in the alternative font size.
For children without a name in the children's block, Sohn , Tochter " or Kind will be shown instead of "NN".
The data protection functionality has been fundamentally revised and expanded (#271, #273).
New setting for lists to always display marriages indented on new lines.
The display of vital data and relevant location in lists has been adapted to the display in the personal directories (#144).
There is a new setting to separate footnotes either with line breaks, as before, or now also with spaces. This saves space in reports.
Instead of only being able to turn separator lines between structural elements in the family block on or off, the vertical spacing for most structural elements can now be individually adjusted between 0% (no spacing) and 200% (two lines) of the normal line height.
The card description can optionally precede an evaluation.

recording

The default last name for newly registered parents or children can be configured in the Omega data entry settings (#455, #504).
If the mother is newly registered as a person whose father is not specified, then the child's surname is used as the default for the mother.
After adding a child to a person, a toggleable prompt appears asking whether another child should be added (#496).
Commas at the end of last names, first names, professions, and places are ignored during input. It is still possible to have commas within a name (Adorf,_House_7).
Warning messages before deleting people have been strengthened to alert the user to the destructive and irreversible nature of this function (#500).
Fixed a bug where the purpose of the selected person was not displayed in the person selector when choosing a new spouse.
Fixed a bug where changes to only trailing spaces and blank lines in documents were not recognized and saved on the index card.
Fixed a bug where the qualifiers ?, v, e could not be entered in English or French when entering a date in that language.
Fixed a bug where the qualifiers ?, v, e were ignored when entering a marriage date.

Seek

Search for people with specific free text entries, also in sources .
The person search function allows you to select which free text fields to search.
Search for people in all files in one data source (#454).
Macros can be used in the quick search field below the directories for last names, first names, places, and professions. For person directories, the macros for last names are used (#375).

GEDCOM import

A directory of new people imported during a Gedcom import will be created.
The ability to view and edit Gedcom files in the Gedcom Import Wizard has been removed (#501).

Omega Classic

The ability to open and edit a file in Omega Classic has been removed.
All user interface settings for Omega Classic have been removed.

Miscellaneous

The name of the currently used card file is displayed above the detail view of directories as well as in the title of the card file and card viewer (#511).
Marked spouses and children are displayed as marked on the index card (#466).
Spouses and children on the index card can be selected from their context menu.
It is now possible to scroll and browse through directories using keys in the search field (#484).
Backups of card files can now also be restored to a new card file (#461).
When links on the index card are accessed, the links in the documents to the locations listed on the index card are now also displayed (#232).
In the pedigree chart, optionally only one of the event pairs */˜, †/□ and S⚭/K⚭ with the highest data intensity is shown in order to achieve a shorter chart (#352).
New functionality to search for people with NN spouses.
No more crashes if the BTR.INF file containing the list of person directories is corrupt.
Improved handling of loading errors on the index card.
Fixed a crash that could occur when the map viewer was reopened.

New features in AGS/Omega 2.7.8

If no duplicates are found in a person directory during the duplicate check , a message is issued instead of creating an empty person directory (#479).
The keyboard shortcuts Ctrl +← and Ctrl +→ have been removed from the navigation buttons on the tab to allow word-by-word navigation in the input fields and documents (#379, #485).

New features in AGS/Omega 2.7.7

Fixed a bug that caused macros to be lost after a new installation or update of Omega.

New features in AGS/Omega 2.7.6

When a list of persons is copied from one card index to another ( Omega import ), it now remains in the original card index instead of being removed.
Fixed a bug where all marriages copied from one database to another ( Omega import ) were always technically defective and were removed during a database check .
It prevents the user from creating more than one marriage with the same spouse by merging people.
When merging individuals, marriages that were deselected are no longer assigned to the other spouse as a marriage with NN , but are completely removed.
The selection screen for marriages when merging persons now also displays marriage dates and locations.
Fixed crash after merging people from the card (#472).
Workaround for a rare crash when opening a file in the classic user interface if that file was not previously opened in the integrated user interface (#467).
Workarounds for rare crashes (#468, #469)

New features in AGS/Omega 2.7.5

The title of the family tree in the document viewer is now correct.
In the case of multiple ancestors, each Kekulé number is only displayed once in the footer of the pedigree chart .
The single-line header text is now also optionally displayed above a family tree (#465).
The selection field for the evaluation format in the evaluation assistant now always displays all evaluation formats when expanded, without the need to scroll (#464).
The warning message before deleting all persons from a directory has been made clearer.
Fixed a problem where a toolbar in the map viewer would become confused at certain zoom levels of the Windows display.
It prevents the person selector from being used to create a link to a deleted person .
When entering a new location in the "Locations " field on the index card , the option to enter details about the location is now also offered.
When recording or changing a marriage , the civil marriage date is immediately the active control element for input.

New features in AGS/Omega 2.7

Omega Classic in DOSBox is solely for performing evaluations, CSV exports and GEDCOM transfers, as well as card index checks, repairs, and conversions. Please use only the integrated AGS user interface for all other Omega functionalities, and especially for data entry.

If you have previously worked with Omega Classic, please read about the differences between Omega in the integrated user interface and Omega Classic in the classic user interface.

Changes

The map viewer has been technically revised.
The Omega settings have been partially regrouped.
Almost all functionalities available in the integrated user interface have been removed from the classic user interface.
The family tree (diagrams) has been removed from the classic user interface.
For functionalities that are currently only available in the classic user interface, menu entries have been added to the integrated user interface, directing the user to use the classic user interface.
Omega in the classic user interface no longer discards person directories created in the integrated user interface that no longer fit in memory, but simply does not display them (#385).

Extensions

Lists of persons

Individual or multiple people can be copied or moved from one directory to another using the mouse.
Entire contents of person directories can be copied or moved to another person directory using the mouse.
Individual persons or groups of persons, as well as entire contents of person directories, can be copied to another file using the mouse ( Omega import ).
Person lists can be emptied .
All persons in a directory can be deleted at once.
A new person or a new person with parents (child, father, mother) created from a person directory will appear not only in the person directory "All Persons" but also in the person directory from which they were created (#437).
When the person selector is used to select a person, the person to be selected can be viewed beforehand on a tab via Open in the person's context menu (#361).

recording

The editing of locations, including the calling up of the map viewer in the index card and in the marriage editor, has been completed (#372, #404).
The spouse in a marriage can be changed without having to remove and recreate the marriage (#367).
The automatic completion of last name, first name, place and job title on the index card can be optionally switched off (#401).
For faster data entry, it is possible to choose directly on the record card whether the child to be added should be created as a new entry or selected in the person selector (#417).
If a person's children are automatically or manually re-sorted on a record card , the sorting order can now be automatically adjusted for the other parent as well, upon request. This function can also be accessed separately (#402).
In the editor for editing the marriage of the parents of a child newly created via the function "New Person with Parents ", the child is displayed (#423).
Improved proposal for the insertion position of a child with the spouse if the spouse already has a child with no known parent (#408).
When slowly hovering the mouse over locations on the card index, a tooltip with further information about the location appears (#372, #407).
The position of the input field for professions in the order of entry on the index card is configurable ( field order ) (#371).
Using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + U , the source view can now be conveniently switched on and off on the tab (#99, #350).
Before a newly entered person is saved, a duplicate check is automatically performed. This check can also be performed later at any time from the menu of the record card.
When a child is unlinked from the record card , the child is also unlinked from the other parent upon request (#422).
If, when creating a new entry for a person and their parents from a list of persons, the father is skipped, the person's surnames are pre-entered under the mother (#341).

functions

Duplicate checking is available in the integrated user interface.
Plausibility checks and duplicate checks can be optionally deactivated .
Plausibility checks and duplicate checks can be performed for a person from within a directory of persons.
The plausibility check takes into account the maximum age of the mother at the birth of a child (#427) and a maximum lifespan of 120 years (#354). It also checks whether the previous spouse died before remarriage (#354).
One person can be merged into another person to eliminate duplicates.
There is now a fourth setting for searching for people by date: exactly (as entered) (#421).
In the dialog for searching for people, not only the Tab key but also the Enter key now switches from one input field to the next (#380).
A new setting specifies that deleting a person will also delete that person's marriages, instead of merely setting the deleted spouse to NN in them (#403).
The first page of the assistants can be hidden (#417).

Evaluations

In the pedigree chart, the Kekulé numbers of identical ancestors (double ancestors, multiple ancestors) are shown below the pedigree chart (#324, #446).
In the pedigree chart, lines indicate that the father, mother, or both of the person furthest to the right are also recorded (#324).
In the pedigree chart , the Kekulé numbers are placed before the name so that they are not cut off in the case of very long names that do not fit in the box, but remain visible.
The evaluation format "descendant sequence" has been renamed "descendant list" .
The display in the descendant list has been changed so that children are now always shown next to the first descendant listed, and not next to the father. This applies to entries where both the father and mother are descended from the subject (#445).
For the sake of clarity, in all numbered evaluation formats, the spouses of a person in the parent block are now also displayed whenever the same person reappears in a parent block (#290).
When a person's details are abbreviated in reports, the notes and documents are also omitted.
The register of wives has been renamed the register of spouses and now lists both wives and husbands in all numbered evaluation formats . This applies in particular to the descendants list, where both men and women can create entries (#436).
All numbered report formats now contain clickable links when output to RTF files, allowing navigation through the report by clicking on the numbers. The table of contents now lists only the section separators and no longer the numbers (#414).
For individuals of Jewish, Muslim, and Buddhist faiths, an alternative death symbol can optionally be used in the evaluations (#373).

corrections

The quick search for people in a directory of people now also works for people whose last name begins with a lowercase letter (#442).
The quick search for Kekulé numbers in person directories sorted by Kekulé numbers now works (#434).
When searching for a person by location or text, a person's marriages are now also included (#452).
If the privacy setting results in the suppression of a date, the leading "e" is now also suppressed in calculated dates, while the characters "?" and "v" remain, as these can also refer to the location. Additionally, any remaining superfluous commas are omitted (#433, #448).
Godparents were incorrectly not displayed in the ancestor list under certain settings (#357).
Fixed a bug where strict data protection regulations caused marriages of children to be completely omitted from evaluations if only the date was not to be shown.
The continuous editing mode and automatic saving of changes now also work in the map viewer (#443).
Fixed a bug where, when restoring files to an initially empty data source, only the first file and none of the subsequent restored files were displayed (#440).
The keyboard shortcuts on the index card now work (#426).
Fixed a problem where, after installing the demo card file into the default data source, only the demo card file and no other cards were displayed in the default data source due to a prompt at program startup (#383).
Fixed program crashes caused by duplicate entries in person directories (#431, #435).
Fixed premature random termination of Gedcom import .

Known errors

This version of Omega cannot properly handle write-protected files.

New features in AGS 2.6.8/Omega 5.696