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Gedcom Start Center + gedcom_serpro-setup.exe
Gedcom Conversion
Gedcom Reduction

Gedcom Sorting
Gedcom Structure Analysis
Gedcom Validation

In case of changing only parts of the language files, a small letter will be added to the version number of the program. Such modifications will not be listed in the following version history.

Gedcom Start Center + gedcom_serpro-setup.exe

In case of new versions of the Service Programs within the "gedcom_serpro-setup.exe", small letters will be added to the version number of the setup-file and the modified version of the affected programs will be listed.

1.4.0 - 06.09.2010: Modified: Gedcom Conversion 2.5.5, Gedcom Validdation 2.3.3
1.3.3a - 07.06.2010: Modified: Gedcom Conversion 2.5.4a
1.3.3 - 01.06.2010: Separated the user guide for the Gedcom Service Programs into 4 parts. "Help" button for loading the User Guide part 1 established. All programs affected.
1.3.2 - 01.04.2010: Gedcom Reduction 1.1.1, Gedcom Validation 2.3.1, Gedcom Structure Analysis 1.4.0.
1.3.1 - 21.03.2010: Gedcom Conversion 2.5.3
1.3.0 - 01.03.2010: The update function now checks also the availability of new user guides.
All Gedcom Service Programs.
1.2.1 - 10.01.2010: All Gedcom Service Programs.
1.2.0a - 02.12.2009: Fault in license management corrected.
Gedcom Conversion 2.5.0a.
1.2.0 - 01.12.2009: New button for "Gedcom Reduction".
Gedcom Reduction 1.0.0, Gedcom Conversion 2.5.0, Gedcom Sorting 2.3.2, Gedcom Structure Analysis 1.3.0, Gedcom Validation 2.2.3.
1.1.1 - 15.10.2009: Gedcom Validation 2.2.2.
1.1.0 - 01.10.2009: Button "User Guide" replaced by "Update" via Internet.
Gedcom Conversion 2.4.0, Gedcom Structure Analysis 1.2.0, Gedcom Validation 2.2.1.
1.0.2 - 01.09.2009: Gedcom Validation 2.2.0, Gedcom Conversion 2.3.2, Gedcom Sorting 2.3.1, Gedcom Structure Analysis 1.1.1.
1.0.1 - 29.06.2009: Gedcom Validation 2.1.0a, Gedcom Conversion 2.3.1.
1.0.0 - 11.06.2009: 1st publishing:
Includes Gedcom Validation 2.1.0, Gedcom Conversion 2.3.0, Gedcom Sorting 2.3.0, Gedcom Structure Analysis 1.1.0.

Gedcom Conversion

2.5.5 - 06.09.2010: Error during release of a ged-file corrected.
Improved transfer (more data) of source records into embedded text.
Optimized conversion of data records into embedded text of source and note data.
2.5.4a - 07.06.2010: Index error during elimination of empty CONC/CONT lines corrected.
2.5.4 - 01.06.2010: "Help" button for loading the User Guide part 2 assigned.
As 4th separator for the numeric date the space " " is accepted.
Modification of the preparation of the date structure: new option for converting of e.g. 1730/32 in "BET 1730 AND 1732", new option for converting of e.g. MAY 173_ in "BET MAY 1730 AND MAY 1739", in both cases the date may be transfered to a Gedcom conformable format. Sequence of conversion of the current groups 3.1 and 3.2 reversed. Sequence of the text options within group 3.1 changed (Date options will be modified at the latest). All text phrases of the date will be changed to upper case. Because this will be done already during reading the ged-file, it has to be considered during defining the options for text changes.
2.5.3 - 21.03.2010: Option added to delete within location names text phrases enclosed in braces. Available braces are " ( < [ { ".
2.5.2 - 01.03.2010: Adaptation to Win7, modified the conversion of the filename and the handling of the log-file.
2.5.1 - 10.01.2010: As new option the coding of the ged-file can be modified from ASCII, ANSEL and ANSI to UTF-8. Detection function for coding modified.
Option for conversion of the date structure extended to 3 date formats ("DD.MM.YYYY", "MM.DD.YYYY", "YYYY.MM.TT") and 3 separation characters (".", "/", "-"). Preparation of date values improved: For suspicious data the original value and the used value will be listed at the log-file. Then corrections can be made in the genealogy program accordingly.
The license owner will be listed at the head of the screen.
2.5.0a - 02.12.2009: Error at "Remove path ..." corrected.
2.5.0 - 01.12.2009: Extended the "Structure Options" and expanded the "Move Text" option to 4 lines per definition.
Main screen restructured and the tabs increased from 3 to 5.
The ocdd files renamed to gcsd - will be done by the program automatically.
2.4.0 - 01.10.2009: The capability of option "Move Text" enhanced.
The options split into 2 tabs: "Structure Options" and "Text Options".
New structure options added: "Delete empty CONC/CONT lines". "Delete spaces at line end", "CONC" following "NOTE" > "NOTE", "Delete path info in FILE", "NOTE record > Text" and "SOUR record > Text".
New text option added: "Delete line blocks starting with ...".
For details see the user-guide.
Option "Insert ocdd-filename" the part of the ocdd-filename left of the point will be inserted to the filename of the modified ged-file. This shows by which ocdd-file the ged-file has been converted.
2.3.2 - 01.09.2009: To protect your data and PC setup following folders for writing files are no longer accepted: folders starting with "C:\Programme\" or "C:\Program Files\" and the program folder.
2.3.1 - 29.06.2009: As new option multiple FAMS lines, as partly created by the "Ahnenforscher" program, can be eliminated.
Sprachdateien angepasst.
2.3.0 - 11.06.2009: Activation of the full functionality of the program by the OFB license or a separate (low cost) license for all Gedcom Service Programs.
2.2.0 - 25.04.2009: Option "Move Text" implemented to allow a flexible modification of the structure of ged files across up to 3 lines each. This allows to change relations assigned from a person to an event. Hiermit können u.a. Beziehungen, die einer Person zugeordnet sind, einem Ereignis zugeordnet werden.
Adjusted language files.
2.1.0 - 01.12.2008: All ANSEL coded ged-files in general will be converted to ANSI.
Optional conversion of ocdd- and ged-files. In this case a pop-up screen will show up asking if the results should be processed and stored in UTF-8 code, if the text definitions contain characters which only can be handled by UTF-8 and ged- resp. ocdd-files are coded in ANSI or ANSEL.
The modified ged-file will get as adder to the filename a "_a" if stored in ANSI or "_u" if stored in "UTF-8" instead of "_m".
Adjusted language files.
2.0.3 - 01.11.2008: Delete all leading spaces at start of every ged-line.
2.0.2 - 25.07.2008: See 5.2.1 - OFB.
2.0.1 - 05.03.2008: Extended conversion capabilities for the characteristics of the Gedcom export of the programs "FTM", "Gen+" and "Omega"; language file adjusted.
2.0.0 - 28.02.2008: OFB Development environment changed from "Visual Basic 2003" to "Visual Basic .NET 2008" - details see above at "OFB"; can only act jointly with OFB version 5.0.0 or higher; the program now allows the direct definition and their storage by ocdd-files without manually entering the data to an text editor; therefor user interface completely revised; programm icon modified; extended conversion capabilities for the characteristics of the Gedcom export of the programs "TNG" and "Omega"; language file adjusted.
1.03 - 13.01.2008: Extended conversion capabilities for the characteristics of the Gedcom export of the programs "Ahnenblatt", "GenProfi Stammbaum" and "GES-2000"; language file adjusted; ini-file instead of registry entry.
1.02 - 20.12.2007: Modified language file integrated.
1.01 - 04.12.2007: Language file established.
1.0 - 01.12.2007: 1st publishing.

Gedcom Reduction

1.1.2 - 01.06.2010: "Help" button for loading the User Guide part 3 assigned.
1.1.1 - 01.04.2010: Due to the new setup of the ged-file exported by FTM2010 (at the beginning of the family records all families with only one parent are located) the logic for reading the FAM data had to be modified.
1.1.0 - 01.03.2010: Search for event/fact-locations corrected and extended to all events/facts which are not standard (birth, christening, death, burial resp. marriage, divorce as well as living location and location of citizenship).
Improvements for the selection and the output of data: in addition to the found persons their parents can be selected and the output of family data and associations data can be switched on/off. If ancestors and/or descendants are selected, the number of generations for output may be specified.
Reconstructed the main screen. Adaptation to Win7.
Additions for "Selection of Persons": A 3rd date field can be selected, to allow a simultaneous selection of all 3 date fields. For persons, never married, the marriage date "0000.00.00" will be applied.
1.0.1 - 10.01.2010: The license owner will be listed at the head of the screen.
Preparation of date values improved: For suspicious data the original value and the used value will be listed at the log-file. Then corrections can be made in the genealogy program accordingly.
1.0.0 - 01.12.2009: 1st publishing.

Gedcom Sorting

3.0.0 - 01.06.2010: "Help" button for loading the User Guide part 1 assigned.
New options for sorting of tags within an INDI resp. FAM data record and a new tab for defining the sequence of these tags established.
Now all sorting methods can be performed in one run.
Created a gssd-file for saving all options and settings for later re-use and linked the file to the Gedcom Sorting Program.
2.3.4 - 01.03.2010: Buttons for edit of the origianl and the modified ged-file added.
The filename of the modified ged-file changed from "xxx_s.ged" to "xxx_sor.ged". Adaptation to Win7.
2.3.3 - 10.01.2010: The license owner will be listed at the head of the screen.
Preparation of date values improved: For suspicious data the original value and the used value will be listed at the log-file. Then corrections can be made in the genealogy program accordingly.
2.3.2 - 01.12.2009: Screen modified.
2.3.1 - 01.09.2009: To protect your data and PC setup following folders for writing files are no longer accepted: folders starting with "C:\Programme\" or "C:\Program Files\" and the program folder.
2.3.0 - 11.06.2009: Activation of the full functionality of the program by the OFB license or a separate (low cost) license for all Gedcom Service Programs.
2.2.1 - 07.02.2009: Modification for processing year values of DATE tags if the values are larger than 2147 by typo.
2.2.0a - 10.12.2008: Error correction for reading CHIL and FAMS data.
2.2.0 - 01.12.2008: Error during writing of modified ged-file corrected.
The modified ged-files will be stored in the same coding than the original file.
Additional Options for sorting of children within a family (CHIL rows) and marriages of a person (FAMS rows) according their date adcending.
The modified file will get "_s" as adder to the filename instead of "_m".
2.1.0 - 20.09.2008: Sorting method for INDI data records added. By this sorting 2 different ged-files may be compared easily by using the program "WinMerge" allowing to find duplicates or to simplify merging of persons.
2.0.2 - 25.07.2008: See 5.2.1 - OFB.
2.0.1 - 05.03.2008: "Help" button added.
2.0.0 - 28.02.2008: OFB Development environment changed from "Visual Basic 2003" to "Visual Basic .NET 2008" - details see above at "OFB"; can only act jointly with OFB version 5.0.0 or higher; all texts transferred to the language file.
1.0.1 - 01.12.2007: Backup file replaced by a target file with a modified filename of the source file; error correction.
1.0.0 - 01.04.2007: 1st publishing.

Gedcom Structure Analysis

1.4.1 - 01.06.2010: "Help" button for loading the User Guide part 1 assigned.
1.4.0 - 01.04.2010: Option to suppress the output of the quantity of tag combinations added.
1.3.2 - 01.03.2010: Adaptation to Win7, modified the conversion of the filename and the handling of the log-file.
1.3.1 - 10.01.2010: The license owner will be listed at the head of the screen.
1.3.0 - 01.12.2009: The TYPE xxx lines can be listed by their attributes xxx separately within the structure.
1.2.0 - 01.10.2009: SUBM records can be excluded from the nalysis by option, because they usually are not relevat for the analysis. Boxes for output modified.
1.1.1 - 01.09.2009: To protect your data and PC setup following folders for writing files are no longer accepted: folders starting with "C:\Programme\" or "C:\Program Files\" and the program folder.
1.1.0 - 11.06.2009: Activation of the full functionality of the program by the OFB license or a separate (low cost) license for all Gedcom Service Programs.
1.0.4 - 25.04.2009: Error correction for UTF-8 character set. The options switches added to ini file.
1.0.3 - 01.03.2009: Renaming of the log file.
1.0.2 - 07.02.2009: Attribute text of level-0 tags will be phrased.
1.0.0 - 20.09.2008: 1st publishing.

Gedcom Validation

2.3.3 - 06.09.2010: The number of listed potential duplicates may be chosen (was fix 100 in the past).
An optional Id-Field for the Validate result list of duplicates - in addition to the record number - may be defined, e.g. REFN.
2.3.2 - 01.06.2010: "Help" button for loading the User Guide part 4 assigned.
Correction at comparison of surnames in case of missing surnames, at comparison of dates of siblings and additions for parts of name text not to be used for comparisons.
2.3.1 - 01.04.2010: Due to the new setup of the ged-file exported by FTM2010 (at the beginning of the family records all families with only one parent are located) the logic for reading the FAM data had to be modified.
2.3.0 - 01.03.2010: New option to check date ranges (from/to date resp. missing dates) for birth, christening, death and burial established. Adaptation to Win7.
2.2.4 - 10.01.2010: The license owner will be listed at the head of the screen.
Preparation of date values improved: For suspicious data the original value and the used value will be listed at the log-file. Then corrections can be made in the genealogy program accordingly.
2.2.3 - 01.12.2009: The ovdd files renamed to gvsd - will be done by the program automatically.
2.2.2 - 15.10.2009: Correction for output screens for date and duplicate list.
2.2.1 - 01.10.2009: Boxes for output modified and index error for dates of events (EVEN tag) corrected.
2.2.0 - 01.09.2009: For date checking those dates found as faulty by the programm, but after manual checking would be correct, may be stored in a separate file - similar to the "No duplicate" process. During further analysis these dates will no longer be counted as faulty. For further details see the user guide.
File management for "No duplicates" moved from tab "Base options" to a new tab. In addition the content of the "No duplicate" and the "No date errors" file can be listed here.
Special characters of given names, surnames and location names may be deleted to enhance the searching of duplicates.
Tab "Check options" split into 3 tabs. Additional options for date comparisons added. Tab "Other options" added with further options for error and warning checking of the various names fields.
To protect your data and PC setup following folders for writing files are no longer accepted: folders starting with "C:\Programme\" or "C:\Program Files\" and the program folder.
2.1.0a - 29.06.2009: Improved the behavior of the buttons "Validate" and "NoDup".
2.1.0 - 11.06.2009: Activation of the full functionality of the program by the OFB license or a separate (low cost) license for all Gedcom Service Programs.
If during a manually comparison of duplicates found by the program someone discovered, that this is not a real duplicate, this result can be stored in a file. During an additional analysis this pair will no longer be counted as a duplicate, which saves a lot of work. For details see the Users Guide.
2.0.0 - 25.04.2009: Further refinement of monitoring and possible correction during reading the ged file:
For surnames, 1st names and location name certain text phrases pointless for a comparison may be defined which will be eliminated, e.g. "NN", "N.N." or "Living".
Questionmarks as part of the text of 1st names, surnames and location names may be optionally suppressed during reading.
Beside the phonetic comparison methode an exact 1:1 comparison can be done. During checking for duplicates the comparison of surnames and dates may be optionally deselected.
1.1.0 - 01.03.2009: More extensive control and possible correction during reading of DATE and PLACE attributes.
Found date errors now may be stored and listed like the duplicate errors. Some error corrections.
1.0.2 - 12.02.2009: Start of programm by double click on ovdd-file activated.
1.0.1 - 07.02.2009: A message will be written to the logfile, if during reading of a DATE value the year is greater than the current year.
1.0.0 - 01.02.2009: 1st publishing.