• Updated the look of the site to conform to my other websites.

• Went through all of the external code modules from start to finish, renaming all module-level and local variables according to standards...couple of bugs fixed right away where global variables were being corrupted by small routines supposedly using a local variable....Just the forms code to go through now!
• GEDCOM Import is now working again (minor problems with the AWK control).
• Got the Print parameters window working (sort-of) as well as the Descendant Box Chart preview window.
• Started looking into the MDI window handling as Genesis threw up a couple of crashes when working with several windows open (are you telling me that you guys have actually been using this like this?).

• Family Add/Modify appears to be working OK now. This really is better than that 'other' genealogy program - even with this limited functionality!
• Toolbar buttons are now working again, with Notes, Biography, etc buttons staying depressed while the forms are open.
• Options are now loading and saving again, only this time using the Registry (the code used was a hang-over from the Windows 3.x days of using .INI files and didn't work reliably).
• Attributes are now loading into the Add/Modify form using the new grid control. Found that the new grid control allows the use of pictures as well, so I may use it for other list-type displays).
• Found that the Child list does not format the data into the columns as it once did. This is due to the use of 16-bit windows functions. Will consider replacing all lists that need data formatting into columns with the new grid control.
• GEDCOM Export appears to be working now

• Tried out most of the functions and, surprise, surprise, some of them simply crashed!
• Spent a while orienting myself as to the state of the code as I had left it the last time I was actively developing it.
• All global variable declarations amended to naming conventions.
• All database creation code amended for DAO 3.5 standards and tested OK (it creates databases that allow data to be stored and retrieved...I'm impressed, it actually works!).
• Tried out the functions again....less flaky and, yeah - if I do say so myself - it's much better than that 'other' genealogy program...keep watching this space.

Having been encouraged by the recent on-line activities of the Public Records Office, I wanted to get back into my family history again. Because I have found that the 16-bit version of Genesis was extremely flakey under Windows 98 (at least on the PCs that I have access to), I decided to be a traitor to my own cause and try out another well-known family-tree program.....Yeugh!! Oh my God! I can't believe that I actually paid £20 for this!

I reached for the Start Menu, loaded VB6 and opened the rather dusty Genesis source files...it must be better than what I've just witnessed! So: I resumed development of the 32-bit version today!

If you have the original installation diskettes for V0.826, please e-mail me, as I would like to post the full installation version here for downloading.

Work has begun on the new version of Genesis. This will be a 32-bit-only version. See next version page for details.