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N.B. The latest patch 16 also contains the following changes.

*** Changes in patch 15 d.d. 01-09-2007 *************************************
-BACKUP: If PRO-GEN was installed in a directory that had a 'long filename', the Backup/Restore function did not work properly.
-BACKUP: If the Restore function should overwrite an existing file, that file was erased first. If the Restore then failed, the existing file was already erased so all data would be lost. Now the existing file will be erased after the backup-files are checked.
+BACKUP: Now uses a newer LHA version: LHA 2.55.
+Textreports: The Info-fields of Husband, Wife and Relation can now be printed together just before the line "From this marriage..."
+General: changes to run on VirtualPC for use on Windows X64 versions.
+List: The 'View' screen can be ended with the same V-key.
-Printout: in some cases the characters Ç, Ä and Pt were not printed correctly. The PGcourier font has been changed to correct this.

*** Changes in patch 14 d.d. 06-03-2007 *************************************
+Changes to allow PRO-GEN to run on Windows VISTA (32-bit):
    +Installation: the DOS installation software has been replaced with a Windows installation program that will work on Windows Vista.
    +Settings: the keyboard-layout can now be changed within PRO-GEN.
    +Settings: the window size can now be changed within PRO-GEN.
    +Utilities: in the 'Update' section a function to 'Read program settings from previous version' has been added.
    +The directory PG30\TEMP will now be used for temporary files.
=HTML/CSS reports: links that point to a location in the same file will no longer have the filename specified in the 'href=' link.
-HTML/CSS reports: The 'base filename' is required. It may not be empty anymore.
+Selection: The 'Search in all fields' function now also searches the name of father/mother or husband/wife.

*** Changes in patch 13 d.d. 12-12-2006 *************************************
=Installation: PRO-GEN will now install in 'Window' mode instead of 'Full screen'.
-Textreports: Bookmarks that will not be used are now left out. In some cases this will prevent problems because there is a limit of 16379 bookmarks in MS-WORD.
-Filename: The PRO-GEN filename may only use A-Z, 0-9 and - or _ characters.
+HTML/CSS reports: PRO-GEN will now generate a GENDEX.TXT file.
+Selection: Option to 'Search in all fields' added.
+Descendants: an new report is added 'Schema indented per generation'.
-GEDCOM: Some tag's were not shown in the screen where fields are linked to GEDCOM tags.
-Data verification: Files containg more than 32000 relations could cause an error.
+Utilities: under 'Miscellaneous' an item is added to 'Print the F-key texts'.
+Circular chart: Option to use only 4 generations added.
-Circular chart: The border around the first page used a different linewidth than the border on the other pages.
-Modify list: Since Patch 12 an error appeared.
-Pedigree: An error in Patch 12 could cause some persons to appear multiple times in the report na dcould cause an error in the selection function.
-Textreports: The age was not printed if only the burial-date was entered.
-Textreports: Sometimes the occupation of the parents was not printed.
-HTML/CSS textreports: If the output is split into smaller chunks, the table tag of the children section was not closed properly.
+HTML/CSS textreports: Every person has an extra 'id=' tag. This can be used to specify custom CSS styles for specific persons.

*** Changes in patch 12 d.d. 08-05-2006 *************************************
+Output to disk: the last reply to "Do you want to open this file?" will be saved as default for the next time.
+Storage: the limit of 250.000 persons is raised to 2.000.000.
+General: support for the use of long filenames added for output to disk and for GEDCOM and ASCII import/export.
+CSS and HTML-reports: files will be generated with lowercase names.
+CSS-reports: new 'Disk output driver' added for creating HTML-output that uses CSS formatting. In the resulting output many CSS-class-names have been added to the text.
+HTML/CSS-reports: if users put modified files in the directory OUTPUT, these files will be used instead of the same file from the GB directory. This allowd users to create mofifeid versions of templates without having to overwrite the original files.
+Textreports: extra styles have been added for block-info, titles, time, religion and headerlines.
-Textreports: if the report had 60 generation, an error could appear.
-VTX: #10$ did not work correctly with SELECT ... and MARK ... commands.
-Start: if PRO-GEN was used on a PDA an error would appear in patch 9 was installed.
-Circular chart: if printoption 'Use a different date format' was used, the order of the 'brothers and sisters of the proband' could be wrong.

*** Changes in patch 11 d.d. 06-09-2005 *************************************
-PRO-GEN Import/Export: info-texts that have all text on one long line will generate a memory error less often.
+KW-HTML: Date fields that have been entered as a !-character will not be printed anymore.
-Textreports: an 'Out of memory' error will occur less often.
-Descendants: if there were more than 8191 persons within one generation, an error would appear.
+VTX: a CONST value no longer needs to be unique. De last value will be used.
+Installation: A new version of PGIT is included.
-General: if config.nt contains the line 'files=20' this line will be replaced with 'files=40'. Dit is an issue in the German XP version.
-WP-reports: after installing Patch 10, a report in WP format could cause an error.
-Textreports: after installing Patch 10, following error message could appear: 'Subscript out of range in module ALGEMEEN at address ....:05CA'
-Textreports: after installing Patch 10, generating a textreport for the second time would state 'from this marriage .. children' instead of reporting the children-details.

*** Changes in patch 10 d.d. 04-06-2005 *************************************
+GEDCOM import: If the GEDCOM file does not explicitly state the used characterset, PRO-GEN will ask the user to choose one.
+KW-HTML: the 'Pedigree chart for HTML' can now use 4 or 5 generations.
+Configuration: more than one custom color-setting can be used.
+Selection: selection of 'Marked records with partners' extended with extra options for the selection of parents, children, etc.
-Textreports: an 'Out of memory' error will occur less often.
=Textreports: bookmark names for RTF and WP output have changed.
-PDF circular chart: use of parenthesis in the footer culd cause an 'out of string space' error.

*** Changes in patch 9 d.d. 21-02-2005 **************************************
-Textreports: When using 'privacyoption 2' and a marriage place was missing, sometimes 'relation' was reported instead of 'married'.
-General: Use of the 'Windows system restore' function could damage a PRO-GEN data file.

*** Changes in patch 8 d.d. 24-11-2004 **************************************
+List: Selection tools added for marking duplicate records.
+List: Special listformat added for viewing duplicate records.
-Relation chart: using 'insert', 'Add partner and marriage' could sometimes corrupt an indexfile.
-PRO-GEN import: using the option 'Search within the import file for duplicates' did not always merge duplicate marriage records correctly.
=GEDCOM: changed the behaviour of the Insert-key in the screen where fields are linked to GEDCOM tags.
-VTX: In report 'Male descendants' the persons without a 'Standard number' will not be printed separately anymore.
+VTX: The index-bookmarks in WordPerfect reports are extended with date and time.

*** Changes in patch 7 d.d. 01-08-2004 **************************************
-PGREPERT.VTX: Numbers of the children were not alligned correctly.
+Textreports: In WP-format the cross-references have now unique codes. Now you can concatenate multiple WP-reports without problems in the cross-references.
+Textreports: In the pedigree textreport the female ancestors now use the 'main person' settings instead of 'partner of main person' settings. The 'partner of main person' setting is now used for partners from other marriages who are not ancestors.
+Installation: New version of PGIT.

*** Changes in patch 6 d.d. 06-07-2004 **************************************
-PGZOEK: Surnames were sometimes stored in uppercase.
-PGZOEK: Non-PRO-GEN files will not have the text "(1)" added to the name.
-Main menu: In the 'Male Descendants' report you may now select a woman as starting point.
-General: The number of the latetst installed patch is now added to the version number; f.i. 3.0b-p6
-Selections: If the selection uses a VTX-file, the function MAINRECORD did not give the number of last selected record.
-PRO-GEN Import: When searching for duplicate persons within the import file, duplicates could be missed when the import file contained deleted records.
-PG-CHECK: Solved error when checking a file without marriage data.
+Text reports: Relation chart report can now be integrated in text report.
-PDF circular chart: If the birth_place is known but the birth_date is not, the christening_date should have been used. Also for death/burial and civil/church marriage.
-Family sheet: When stored in RTF format texts that wrap to the next line were not getting the correct style.
-Descendants report: A report containing more than 32000 persons generates an error.
+HTML pedigree chart: The field patronym will now give an extra line in the index.
-HTML pedigree chart: The patronym was printed two times if the surname field was empty.
-HTML-output: When the file was split sometimes an 'out of string space' error occured.
-HTML-output: WHen the file was split, the last used directory was not stored if that directory already existed.

*** Changes in patch 5 d.d. 29-07-2003 **************************************
+Male descendants: Option to create a 'Descendants by name' report.

*** Changes in patch 4 d.d. 03-07-2003 **************************************
+PGZOEK: Search program added.
+Configuration: Option added to create PGZOEK files automatically.
+Utilities: Export of ASCII files for PGZOEK added.
-Text reports: HTML links were not created at 'married before with'.
-Text reports: The index of WORD XP did not work correctly when a place-name started with a space.
+Circular chart: Fontsize and position op marriage data has been improved.
-Text input: When text in an info-field was deleted, the last screen-line was corrupted sometimes.

*** Changes in patch 3 d.d. 02-01-2003 **************************************
=GEDCOM: Filename input-field can now use only uppercase.
+GEDCOM: Data using EVEN TYPE can now be assigned separately.
+CHECK: Search for duplicate records is quicker now.
=BACKUP: Blocksize reduced for Windows 2000/XP.
+Text reports: first character of name-prefix will now be uppercase when printed at the beginning of a sentence.
+Familybook: option added to print info-fields.
+Familybook: option addes to print all date-fields.
+Circular chart: Character for relations changed (x=civil, =church, &=other).
+Circular chart: Now up to 10 generations.
+Circular chart: Option added to include places.
+Circular chart: Optionally in color or gray.
+General: Command-line option /REC= added.
=Pedigree: 'Czellitzer'-numbers changed to 'Kekule numbers with separation-dot'.
-Search: After a syntax-error in the search-condition, the error-message dit not disappear.

*** Changes in patch 2 d.d. 06-06-2002 **************************************
-Selection: Selecting the 'All related persons' didn't work correctly when EMS memory was used.
-Reports: The numbers 'Consecutive numbers' didn't work correctly with numbers greater than 32767 when EMS memory was used.
-List-reports: When a 'starting page' was entered all previous pages were printed also.
+HTML-output: Lines in the name-index will no longer split on the dash between birth-date and death-date.

*** Changes in patch 1 d.d. 24-03-2002 **************************************
-HTML-output: When the output is split the links in the page-header did not use all lowercase characters.
+HTML-output: The texts "First, Previous, etc." and also the text "Nameindex" will now change according to the selected outputlanguage.