Welcome to our Christmas 2024 Newsletter

HRE Development:

As we look back over the year, we see that the inclusion of the processes and structure to add and edit people into the database has gone really well. After all, once the TMG data had been imported, the database has to be able go beyond that seed. Because HRE is designed to be used for many history research purposes, it is important to maintain some flexibility in structures, and that has made testing a bit more difficult but leaves the software open to future extensions.
However, we released a version of HRE including all Person and Event add/edit/delete functions to the Alpha test group in October, with several further test versions released to them as issues were resolved, ending in early November.

Our current focus is on cleaning up all the remaining issues exposed by this test phase as well as addressing the many requests for improvements and enhancements that came from the testers.
A MAC version has been released to testers, and the bug discoveries are being worked through. After that is completed we will address the final TMG import phase for Sources, Citations and Repositories.

HRE presentations:

  • We presented HRE’s development status at the November RUG meeting and will give a further update to RUG in mid-2025
  • This presentation was repeated at the TMGDU (Australia/NZ TMG users) meeting in December
  • A recording of the RUG presentation is available on the RUG website at https://www.rootsusers.org/ under ‘RUG Meeting Presentations’

Subscribers:

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Final Greeting

The HRE team wishes all our readers a happy and safe Christmas, and may all your family research “brick walls” be closer to demolition in 2025.