Ahnenblatt, a commercial Windows genealogy program, has received two updates in the last week, to Ahnenblatt 4.21 and Ahnenblatt 4.22. Ahnenblatt 4.22 is a minor update – just a single bug fix for plausibility checks, based on my rough translation, concerning branches of your tree that ended.
Ahnenblatt 4.21 on the other hand added a new plausibility check for too many biological parents (an issue that can happen when merging files and people if a duplicate person with different parents is found), and optimized the GEDCOM import of several other genealogy programs. Duplicate people are now handled better or “stricter”, and there are more checks (names of parents, place of birth, etc.).
For in-depth release notes, see this page (in German, if you do not speak/read German, you can use your browser’s translation service if avaiable):
Version 4 – Changes in detail – Ahnenblatt
This is a free updated for current Ahnenblatt 4 license owners. You can download a free demo version here (registered users will be able to unlock it with their paid license):
https://www.ahnenblatt.de/download/
There are also additional graphic packages (backgrounds/frames) at the link above.
The notes below have been translated from the original German through Apple’s Safari/Siri translation service, so apologies for any errors. They correspond with Google’s translation as well.
| Changes in Ahnenblatt 4.22 – February 2, 2025 |
| Fixed: Plausibility check: with certain data constellations a protection violation occurred |
| Changes in Ahnenblatt 4.21 – February 2, 2025 |
| New: Plausibility check: too many biological parents are now reported |
| Optimizations in Ahnenblatt 4.21 |
| GEDCOM import: further optimized for Ages! |
| GEDCOM import: further optimized for EasyTree / My family tree 2 (Mein Stammbaum 2) |
| GEDCOM import: further optimized for GENprofi GEDCOMs |
| GEDCOM import: further optimized for GENprofi GEDCOMs (total export in extended GEDCOM format) |
| GEDCOM import: further optimized for GenPlus GEDCOMs |
| GEDCOM import: further optimized for MyHeritage |
| GEDCOM import: further optimized for webtrees |
| Merge people: detection of duplicate people further optimized |
| Fixes/Corrections in Ahnenblatt 4.21 |
| “Short for birth name” is only initialized after loading a language |
| File under the main menu “File” can only be opened after the first loading of a language |
| Demo version: when ending, the information that more than 50 people are not saved is not saved, then Ahnenblatt no longer ends if you click “continue testing” in the license dialog |
| Family book: Data protection option was partially not taken into account |
| Lists: Last names were no longer in bold |
| Lists: Call name was not underlined |
| Navigator: “Profile picture” in the upper left corner showed “Image not found” if a person does not have a main image and the first file under “Media” is a non-image |