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#AFT v1.2

    27-Nov-93 13:27:26
Sb: #AFT v1.2
Fm: Gary Hines 72060,742
To: Andrew Hounsell 100015,3026
Andrew, I have recently downloaded your AFT genealogy program, v1.2, and am very impressed with the ease of data input and the speed and flexibility of the tree display. I have a few suggestions for improving the program: 1. Add marriage date and place to GEDCOM export and import. This will be very useful to those who want to use a GEDCOM file exported from AFT to feed utilities for printed output such as ahnentafels and pedigree charts. 2. Fix bug in GEDCOM export of DATEs. This problem occurs when a record is being output for an INDIvidual for whom the birth date or death date is unknown. A date is output from a previous INDIvidual's record, and this date appears as both a birth date and death date. It behaves as if the DATE field is not being cleared as a new INDIvidual's record is being assigned. Better yet, if it is easy to discern this, you could suppress output of DATE fields when they are unknown, instead of outputting blanks. (Note that this problem does not occur for PLACe fields, only for DATEs) 3. In the tree display, sometimes a second spouse is not visible and can't be selected. They are out of view on the right. Is there a way to allow scrolling when someone is out of view? (A workaround is to use SuperHiRes screen mode and resize the window larger, but please save my eyes!) Thanks again for a great program.