* Gedcom Census 5.4 Now Available

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Gedcom Census 5.4 Now Available

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This is the latest version of the free utility designed to be used with Family Historian, but not officially endorsed by Calico Pie Software. Gedcom Census was described in a review in the May 2006 edition of Your Family Tree magazine (http://www.yourfamilytreemag.co.uk) as 'a useful add on that every user should have'. Since the first version was released in January 2004 there have over 9400 downloads of Gedcom Census from the FHUG website.

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Use Gedcom Census to record census entries that apply to your family. Gedcom Census will create appropriate sources, census events, occupations and births and will allow images of the census to be linked. All of this information is recorded using the Family Historian GEDCOM format and can be included in Family Historian reports, queries, trees, etc. Gedcom Census has comprehensive help documentation and features to make it easy to use and to accommodate different methods of recording census entries.

Gedcom Census is free to use but I am very happy to accept donations via the options within the application and would like to thank again all those users who have made donations so far. They have certainly encouraged me to continue with development.

This new Gedcom Census 5.4 is now fully Windows Vista compatible and also has some bug fixes:
  • In Windows Vista, Gedcom Census didn't always spot when the GEDCOM file has been saved in Family Historian and so didn't reload the file. This has now been fixed.
  • The help file has been updated to work with HTML Help so that it can be used in Windows Vista.
  • On the census flag form, if the flag name was chosen before the flag date an error occurred with the saved flags.
  • When a flag name is created an associated flag code is generated. Previous versions of Gedcom Census did not appreciate that this code had a maximum length and other rules which have to be followed. Flag codes should now be generated correctly.
  • Finally tracked down a problem which had been reported a couple of times regarding flag creation. If flagcheck ran when the program started it could add or remove flags. Then if flagcheck was run again manually it would spot the same problems again as the file hadn't been reloaded. Gedcom Census will now reload the file if changes are made using flagcheck during startup.
  • The source text popup window (accessed by clicking the tall/narrow buttons to the right of the source text and source note) now word-wraps.
  • Added an additional cancel button on the Census Images screen to enable the saving of the census to be cancelled and return to the main census editing screen.
  • Fixed an error which occurred if Flag Check finds a census entry with no place recorded and it isn't clear by the census date which flag should be applied (e.g. UK 1901 or Canada 1901 as they are on same date).
You can download Gedcom Census 5.4 here:

GedCom Census 6

Nick Walker
Gedcom Census Developer
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