Redesign of the Source View, clips, transcriptions, Analysis View, signature analysis

• The Source View has been completely redesigned:
  • New layout that allows for new features in the current and the upcoming releases.
  • Several improvements to the File Viewer:
    • Supports next/previous page navigation over multiple documents.
    • Has been allocated a larger screen area.
    • Greatly improved file cache, fixing bugs that some users reported about thumbnails not being displayed correctly.
    • Added hotkeys for navigating through the pages of a document.
  • Improving the Information Panel:
    • Adding a person automatically focuses the Claims Panel, enabling you to start typing right away.
    • Added several hotkeys for adding and focusing the different persons and relationships (mainly using the Ctrl key).
  • A complete redesign of the Claims Panel:
    • The different tabs have been replaced by one complete form containing all the claims.
    • Improved layout optimizes the use of screen real estate.
    • Focused claims are now highlighted with a green border.
    • When the Source View is opened from the Person View or the Analysis View, the corresponding claims receive focus automatically.
    • Improved the performance of the Claims Panel.
    • Added several hotkeys for focusing and adding claims (mainly using the ALT key).
• Introducing the concept of clips:
  • Allows the researcher to connect a claim to the corresponding part of the document (called a clip).
  • Supports both rectangular clips and multiline clips.
  • Clips help to further improve the process of extracting information from a document.
  • Enables a researcher to annotate clips and manage connected claims using the Clip Panel.
• Introduces the new Transcription Panel ^{[AW], [IvG]}:
  • Allows transcriptions per page of a document.
  • Transcriptions allow rich text editing, including bold, italic, underline and lists.
• Also introducing the new Analysis View ^[AW]:
  • Replaces the previous Analysis dialog.
  • The new layout displays the source reference and corresponding clips ^[MHa] directly next to each piece of evidence.
  • Groups the evidence per conclusion for improved analysis.
  • Allows the user to navigate directly from the Analysis View to the corresponding Source Views.
  • The proof argument now allows rich text editing, including bold, italic, underline and lists.
• Added support for signature analysis:
  • Also introducing the new signature fact in the Claims Panel, which allows the researcher to add a clip of a signature to a person.
  • Added the new Signature panel to the Person View.
  • The new Analysis View is also specifically designed for signature analysis.
• Improvements to the search capabilities:
  • Now also searches in proof arguments, transcriptions and file names.
  • Improved design and performance of the search results pane.
• Fixing several bugs reported by users:
  • Improved age calculations for complex ages like '5 months and 2 days' ^[MHe].
  • Fix for the bug that sometimes prevented the correct displaying of thumbnails ^{[TM], [PB]}.
  • Fix for the formatting of the Dutch name Machielsen (which was formatted as MacHielsen) ^[PB].
  • Added a settings button to the GEDCOM export dialog ^[MHe].
• And as always many performance improvements and bug fixes.

A service release

• Improved the quality and speed of the auto correlation algorithm ^{[EF] [YZ]}.
• Improved formatting of given names ^[DM].
• Added the source type 'Ship's Manifest' ^[FJ].
• Added church marriage to tool tip if civil marriage is not present ^[EF].
• Fixed 2 bugs in the import/export of sources ^[AW].
• Added REPO tags to the GEDCOM export for public archives ^[DM].
• Fixed bug that prevents Centurial from starting up in very rare circumstances ^[VC].

• Further improved the performance of the Auto Correlation algorithm. Fixed bugs in generation number and auto arrange for imports through the browser extension.

• Introducing the person timeline:
  • As part of the Person View, it shows all main events in the life of the person and all close family.
  • Includes date, relationship and age for each event.
  • The timeline is scrollable, zoomable and can be used for navigation to family members.
  • Finally occupying the middle column in the Person View, a space that has been reserved for this purpose ever since v1.0.
• Introducing kinship paths and terminology:
  • Specific support for English, Dutch and German naming systems.
  • Support for terms like grandmother, nephew or great-grandparent of ex-partner.
  • Used in the new timeline to express the relationship between the person and the event.
  • Used in the Network Diagram to express the relationship between each person and the proband.
  • Introducing indicators for direct ancestors and descendants of the proband in the Network Diagram.
  • Display of relationship degrees, generations and Ahnentafel numbers.
• Improving the GEDCOM export:
  • Introducing the new GEDCOM Export dialog.
  • Allows to select the export mode: best conclusion, all conclusions or all evidence ^[PB].
  • Include or exclude living people. ^[AW]
  • Optionally export all multimedia files ^[DM].
  • Opt in/out for the export of birth and death date estimates ^[DM].
  • Introducing the default GEDCOM path setting.
• Usability and user requests:
  • Refactored the status conclusion algorithm, adding support for 'residence since' or 'occupation until' ^{[IvG] [BvA] [AW]}.
  • Improved the tool tips for persons and relationships to include icons ^[AW].
  • The Information Panel now uses the same name format as the Network Diagram ^[KH].
• Bug fixes:
  • Major performance improvements for larger research projects, sometimes reducing wait times by as much as 7 (!) seconds per transaction.
  • Fix for bug where biological parents with unknown gender were displayed incorrectly ^[MH].
  • Improved the date range scoring in the Auto Correlate algorithm.
  • Fix for bug that made the information rectangles in the Network Diagram disappear ^[PB].
  • Added support for formatting family names like McCartney or MacDonald ^[DM].

• Introducing support for adoptive and foster parents.
  • Changes to the Claim Panel to allow the entry of adoptive, foster, or biological (the default) parents.
  • Improvements to the Network Diagram for displaying adoptive and foster parents and children.
  • Added support for adoptive and foster parents to the Person View and Relationship View.
  • Expanded the GEDCOM export to include the PEDIgree tag.
• The Network Diagram now shows visual clues if additional ancestors or descendants are present (but not visible) ^[AW].
• Usability and bugfixes:
  • Fix for issue where opening the context menu in the Information Panel required 2 clicks instead of 1.
  • Bug fixes for the existing web scrapers.
  • Fix for bug where a child that dies several hours after birth was displayed as stillborn ^[PB].
  • Improved support for the _RUFNAME tag in the GEDCOM export.

• Added the Patronymic field.
• Extended the GEDCOM export with _RUF, _ROEP, _PATR and Ondertrouw tags and events.
• Several minor bug fixes and improvements.

• Introducing the new Correlation Panel.
  • Replaces the previous Correlation dialog.
  • Shows more relevant data, right next to the Network Diagram.
  • Enables the user to go through the results of the auto correlation algorithm step by step.
  • Improved usability.
• Many new improvements to the auto correlation algorithm.
  • Improved handling of siblings with the same name.
  • Enhanced analysis of baptism and birth dates.
  • New targeting algorithm based on the existing relationships in the network, improves the mapping between multiple generations of persons with the same name.
• Happy to implement several more user requests.
  • New fields Nationality ^[MB] and Marriage Notice ^[PB].
  • New vital status Stillborn ^[PB].
  • New source types Business or Institutional Record ^[EF] and Photocopy.
• Introducing the new free Trial and paid Personal editions of Centurial.
• Improved usability and styling.
  • Reviewed the View Source, View Correlation and View Information options throughout the UI, with View Information now auto-selecting the corresponding node in the Information panel.
  • Improved display of collapsed toolbars ^[ME].
  • The Notes field in the Source View now remains visible even with long source citations ^[MB].
  • Network Diagram is now kept centered.
  • GEDCOM export now also contains sources with regards to events like OCCU, RESI and EDUC.

• Miscellaneaous bug fixes, including the auto completion list of the Source Dialog, conclusions for dates, and the GEDCOM export.

• Improvements and bug fixes for culture handling, web scrapers, the network diagram, setup, network shares and performance.

• Totally refactored the dislaying engine of Centurial, allowing for running Centurial in multiple languages and culture specific display styles.
  • Refactored the whole of Centurial to make every last piece of text translatable.
  • Introducing support for specific cultures, improving the way names, dates and numbers are displayed.
  • Many improvements to the evidence summaries in the analysis dialog.
• Presenting Centurial in het Nederlands:
  • Fully translated into Dutch by native speakers Kees Hessels and Marc Engel.
  • Includes specific Dutch features, like name sorting (Gogh, van), roepnamen, and special initials (Th. van Gogh).
• Presenting Centurial auf Deutsch:
  • Fully translated into German by native speakers Benjamin Keune and Martin Hawlisch, and Marc Engel.
  • Includes specific German features, like Rufname, display of underlined Rufname (Vincent Willem van Gogh), and name sorting (Leyen, von der).
• Introducing many new user settings:
  • Settings for culture, language, calendars and name formatting.
  • Advanced display settings for the network diagram.
  • Introducing the ability to change the default project path.
• Improvements to the network diagram:
  • Improved animation and performance.
  • Navigate backward and forward through the persons history.
  • Direct navigation to the proband.
  • Now automatically centers around the active person.
• Includes requests by many users including [MHe], [IvG], [MF], [EF] and [AW].
  • Inclusion of local cloud storage folders in the File System dialog.
  • Added the day of the week to date conclusions.
• Bug fixes and performance improvements.

• The bulk of this release is about a major overhaul of the inner workings of Centurial.
  • Preparing Centurial for future development.
  • Improving the loading times of projects slightly.
  • Fixing many, many issues along the way, including styling, GEDCOM import, auto correlation algorithm and performance.
• Improved support for the clipboard:
  • Copy and paste sources and files over the clipboard.
  • Copy source citations and conclusions to the clipboard.
• Introducing the Centurial Data Exchange Format:
  • An XML based format for exporting and importing data from/to a project.
  • Allows the user to import data in not-GEDCOM sources (user converts the data to XML, then imports the XML into Centurial).
  • The format is used for clipboard actions, import/export and the web scrapers.
• Fixing bugs and issues reported by users [MHe], [IvG], [MF], [MHa] and [AW].

• Fixed several smaller bugs.

Search, Filter, Auto Correlator, Time of Event and more.

• Introducing searching and filtering in Centurial Projects:
  • The Find dialog (ctrl+F) allows you search in all persons, relationships, evidence and sources in a project.
  • Supports searching with wildcards and regular expressions.
  • A filter is added to the Source List and the Person List, allowing you to filter the lists as you type.
• Many improvements to the Auto Correlation algorithm:
  • Indirect evidence is applied to the source information before correlating, improving the auto correlation.
  • Auto correlation now validates generations before and after correlation, prevents messing up generations.
  • Added new indirect evidence rules, extrapolating the birth date of a persons based on their parents^[DvO] and partners.
  • Many micro optimizations, all together improving the auto correlation success rate from <90% to >95%.
• Added the time field to each event, allowing you to gather evidence on the time of day at which events took place.
• Enabling Aero snapping for the Centurial main window, including a new Source Editor layout for side-by-side extraction of claims.
• Many smaller new features:
  • Added source references for partners in the person evidence view.
  • Implementing the vacuum^[MH] option to remove unused project space, effectively shrinking the project file.
  • The claims text editor now supports copy/paste of parts of the text.
  • Introducing the Extensibility Dialog.
• Fixing one or two bugs, and improving several typos.

• Fixed some more bugs.

• Yet another improvement to the GEDCOM import (thank you user [jw]).

• Another one bites the dust (thank you [aw] for reporting this one).

• In case anyone's wondering, I'm on a little crusade of my own trying to get rid of all them annoying bugs. This versions fixes some more of them.

• The more users, the more bugs are unveiled. This patch fixes many of them, including those reported by [bej], [mh] and [rm].

Browser extensions and Extensibility

• Introducing the Centurial browser extension:
  • Import a web page directly from your browser into Centurial as a source.
  • Creates a source citation automatically.
  • Adds a screenshot of the web page to your source.
  • Attempts to import genealogical data using Schema.org Microdata.
  • Available for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.
• The web page is read using a web scraper:
  • Web scrapers allow for targeted import of data for specific web sites.
  • Currently available for Family Search, Wikipedia, Open Archieven and Genealogie Online.
• Introducing the Centurial extensibility architecture:
  • Allows code enthusiasts to develop additional web scrapers.
  • Added a framework to publish your extensions to Centurial users.
• Improving general stability, fixing several bugs and improving GEDCOM import.

A release full of improvements and feature requests by users.

• A major upgrade of the Source Editor screen:
  • Support for multiple screen layouts.
  • Claims are now automatically classified as primary, secondary or undetermined.
  • Improved the File Explorer:
    • Added support for EXIF and the rotation and flipping of images^[mh1].
    • Files can now be ordered using drag & drop.
    • If there is exactly one file available, this will be opened automatically.
    • Improved styling and user experience.
  • Improved the information editor:
    • Refactored and improved the adding and removing of persons and relationships.
    • Added templates for frequently used source types.
    • Added a selection box to easily select multiple persons.
  • Improved the claim editor:
    • Added new facts 'Religious denomination'^[ba/ig/mh1] and 'Cause of death'^[kh].
    • Added copy/paste^[ig/mh2] to the claim editors, allowing the user to copy data between persons and relationships, also allowing the user to copy information from other programs as well, including extensive date parsing.
    • Extended the Age input field to include months, weeks and days^[ba].
    • Status fields can now be synchronized with the source date.
• Improvements to the Person Evidence view:
  • Improved the display by grouping source references^[ba], for example ^[1-4] instead of ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}.
  • Source references like ^[1] now open the source by clicking.
  • Added year ranges to the display of statuses like residence and occupation.
  • Added a separate religion group panel.
• Added support for the Islamic, Hebrew and Swedish^[bs] calendars.
• Miscellaneous user requests:
  • The person list is now sortable^[ig].
  • When all information in the correlation dialog is merged to a single person, this person is selected in the Network Viewer^[ba].
• Various parts of Centurial are refactored, further improving performance and stability, fixing several bugs along the way.

• Further improvements to the GEDCOM import.

• Even more enhancements to the GEDCOM import.

• Several fixes and improvements regarding GEDCOM import and export.

• Fix for a bug introduced in v1.8 that causes Centurial to crash during project creation and directory browsing.

Centurial and the GEDCOM - part II

• Added GEDCOM import (as a project):
  • Imports data and sources into a new project.
  • Allows the user to import an existing research project into Centurial.
  • Supports GEDCOM v5.5 and v5.5.1.
• Introducing the new Quick Start dialog:
  • Create, Open, Restore and Import projects.
  • Contains a list of recent projects.
  • Download and open example projects.
  • Stay up to date with the news channel.
• Improving the project user experience:
  • Improved the performance and user experience for opening projects.
  • Upgraded the Project dialog.
  • Added the project description.
  • Introducing the default project directory.
• Many bug fixes and improvements in performance and stability.

Centurial and the GEDCOM - part I

• Implemented GEDCOM Export:
  • Exports all individuals, families and sources in a project.
  • Supports GEDCOM version 5.5.1.
• Added GEDCOM Import (as a source):
  • Import of small GEDCOM files (max. 247 individuals for now).
  • GEDCOM is imported as a single source.
  • Supports GEDCOM version 5.5 and 5.5.1.
• GEDCOM Import (as a project) is scheduled for Centurial v1.8.
• Added support for date ranges: before, after and between.
• Updates of the data model:
  • Added the Cremation event.
  • Renamed 'Matrimony' to 'Church Marriage'.
  • Added the gender 'Intersex'.
• Several bug fixes and small improvements.

A small service release.

• Improving the auto correlation algorithm:
  • Fuzzy name matching.
  • Aware of birth and death dates
  • Improvement passes based on the existing family relations.
  • Much better performance.
• Adding support of initals in the given names field.
• Fixing several bugs and styling issues.

• Fixing two bugs in the Source Dialog, one of which was introduced in the 1.5 release.

• Tidying up the Source List by grouping sources into source list entries:
  • Sources in the same private archive are grouped together.
  • Sources from the same website are grouped together.
  • Sources from the same record series, interview, newpaper, cemetery, etc. are grouped together.
  • All in accordance with Evidence Explained.
• Introducing the Source Explorer:
  • Explore and manage the sources in a single Source List entry.
• Allowing the user to reuse source information:
  • Easily add a source based on an existing Source List entry, both from the Source List and the Source Explorer.
  • In the Source Dialog, select an existing source from the auto complete popup.
  • The Source Dialogs displays which fields are reused by multiple sources.
  • Generally saves a lot of typing when adding a new source.
• Many improvements to the Source Dialog:
  • Simplifying the editor for personal names.
  • Introducing the date editors from v1.3 to the Source Dialog, including a short cut for the 'today' date.
  • Many improvements to styling and usability.
• The addition of many new source types:
  • Journal, magazine and newspapers.
  • Web page, database entry (called 'extract' in previous versions), blog, social media, wiki entry and html edition.
  • Personal Knowledge and interview are extended to support multiple sessions.
  • Private and public archive types are extended with fields like email, website, telephone, access data and opening hours.

• Fix for bug that causes Centurial to crash at start-up.

• Introducing the new Relationship Evidence view:
  • Analysis of partnership events like marriage, matrimony and divorce.
  • Overview of all the children that are a result of a partnership.
• Many improvements to the Network Diagram:
  • Persons with only one known parent are now displayed correctly.
  • If a person has multiple possible parents, they are displayed as a stack of parents.
  • Persons that appear more than once in the network diagram, are marked with an index number.
  • The Network Diagram now allows the selection of multiple persons by keeping the Control button down while selecting persons.
  • Partnerships now contain a desciptive tool tip and direct access to the relationship evidence view from the context menu.
  • The number of ancestor and descendant generations is now customizable.
• Improved the Person Evidence view:
  • Added support for the analysis of parents of a person.
  • Now lists the partnerships of a person.
• Added more indirect evidence:
  • Residence is derived from birth and death places and from the residence of parents and children.
  • The birth date is now derived from baptism date as well.
  • The death date is now estimated from the burial date.
• Added a Date Converter as a utility for finding old records.
• Improved support voor low screen resolutions by introducing scaling for resolutions beneath 1024x768.
• Fixed a couple of bugs and improved general performance.

• Improved the support for multiple calendars.
  • Added support for Gregorian, French Republican and Julian calendars.
  • Improved the entry and display of date values.
• Added the Status concept.
  • A status is a fact that changes over time, like an occupation or a vital status.
  • Added the Occupation, Residence and Education statusses.
  • When extracting information from sources, you can now also extract Age and Vital Status claims.
• Introduction of indirect evidence. Indirect evidence is evidence for facts based on other related evidence or conclusions.
  • When a source states the age of a person at a specific date, Centurial converts this to indirect evidence for the birth date of that person.
  • When a source states the vital status (alive or deceased) of a person, Centurial converts this to indirect evidence for the birth and death dates of that person.
  • Added indirect evidence based on human statistics, like the maximum human life span.
• Added age calculations for persons.
• Improved display of evidence in the person evidence view and the analysis dialog.
• Improved the multiple document interface of Centurial.
• Fixed several styling issues and bugs.

• Added several 'Learn more' buttons that link directly to the corresponding tutorial videos.
• Improved the person data display in the Person List and the Network Diagram.
• Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.

• Patch for bug that prevents some users from installing Centurial.

• Added some more events: Marriage Banns, Matrimony, Baptism, First Communion, Confirmation and Ordination.
• Improved the Correlation dialog.
• Added Backup & Restore functionality.
• Added the 'Marriage Booklet' source type.
• Fixed 2 bugs found by users.
• Many small improvements.

The first, fully supported Centurial release.

• Finalized the storage format for Centurial project files.
• Changed the Centurial project file extension to .cent.
• Extended the Help menu.
• Renamed 'mapping' to 'correlate'.
• Fixed some more bugs.