What's New

A plain-language look at recent improvements to Family Tree Analyzer.

26 July 2026

On the Colour Birth/Marriage/Death report, a missing Baptism or Burial record is now shown the same way as a missing Birth or Death date — clickable so you can search for it — instead of a grey "no record" cell you couldn't act on.

The Dashboard's Location Quality score now breaks down into its five separate measures — known country, known region, birth location, death location, and geocoding — each shown with its own real count and a direct link to the matching list, instead of one combined percentage that could look confusing.
The "reconnecting" message you might briefly see during a site update now explains what's happening, instead of looking like an error.
The Colour Birth/Marriage/Death report's Filter list now includes "No Record (Grey)", so you can build a list of individuals with no baptism, no burial, or any other missing record type — not just missing dates.
Signed-in users can now ignore a Data Error that isn't actually a mistake (with an optional note explaining why), so it stops cluttering the list. A "Show ignored errors" checkbox lets you review or restore them later.

Added a free historical map for the United States (USGS topographic surveys, 1884-2006) to the Locations Map, Timeline Map and Lifeline Map, alongside the existing historical maps for Scotland and Great Britain. A year slider lets you narrow it down to a specific era once you've zoomed in to your area of interest.

Fixed the Error Type filter on the Data Errors report needing two clicks outside the menu to close after picking your error types — one click now closes it as expected.
The Dashboard's summary cards, deep-dive cards and Top Countries panel now correctly respect your chosen relationship-type filter (e.g. Direct Ancestors only) when you click through to a detailed report, matching the behaviour already used elsewhere on the Dashboard.
The Data Errors report now has a link on every row to jump straight to the facts for that person or couple — handy for errors like "Children Status Total Mismatch" where you need to see the family to work out what's wrong.
Fixed the Colour Census report wrongly marking some people as missing from a census when they were actually abroad at the time — this happened when someone had two location facts recorded in the same year (e.g. leaving one country and arriving in another), where the wrong one could be picked as their location on the census date.
Added a new Parent Age Report (under Other Reports) showing the spread of ages at which parents in your tree had children, as a chart plus a numeric table, split by the child's gender and filterable by relationship type.

Fixed a background check that could repeatedly fail to remember a location should be skipped, if that location's name has an accent — it could keep retrying the same one on every tree reload instead of remembering it was already handled.
Fixed drag-and-drop on the Upload page — dropping a GEDCOM file onto the drop zone now actually selects it, instead of only highlighting the box.
Fixed a rare crash that could interrupt an upload while the progress log was updating.
Fixed some unusually messy locations in a GEDCOM file being able to stop other, perfectly good, locations nearby from being saved.
Fixed the Report an Issue form crashing instead of showing an error message when it couldn't reach our issue tracker.

Fixed an issue on our new server that could occasionally make the site unavailable or disconnect you mid-session.
Fixed the "Last updated" date shown at the bottom of the sidebar being very hard to read in light mode.
Fixed a background startup check that could log a harmless error when a country name has an accent (e.g. Côte d'Ivoire), and made related startup errors easier to diagnose.
Improved how we deploy updates and apply database changes behind the scenes, making releases more reliable.

The Lost Cousins Website Sync page is now available to everyone — log in, check what's already on your My Ancestors page, and find records you could add. Uploading records straight to the website is still being tested and remains coming soon for now.
Checking your My Ancestors page now matches each entry against your own tree by census reference and name, showing a green tick (linking to that person) if matched, or a grey question mark if it couldn't find a match.
If you're signed in, confirmed matches from your My Ancestors page are now remembered, so your Lost Cousins reports stay accurate the next time you load your tree — no need to check your My Ancestors page again every session.

Tree Health's Family Structure score no longer counts spouses married into the family as missing parents — their parents are rarely researched, so this was unfairly lowering the score and cluttering the "missing parents" list with in-laws instead of your own relatives.
Refined how Tree Health scores are calculated to give a fairer, more accurate picture of your tree's completeness.

Added Lost Cousins reports: see which relatives are already entered on the Lost Cousins website and which are still to add, for each supported census year. A Website Sync page that uploads your census entries directly to your My Ancestors page is being tested and coming soon.
The On This Day page can now show notable historical events from Wikipedia for the selected date, alongside your own tree's events — turn it on in Settings.
Colour Census now explains why a search link isn't available for certain census years/providers, instead of a cell just doing nothing when clicked.
The Report an Issue form now includes the page's current filter/search settings alongside the page address, to help us reproduce problems more quickly.
Colour Census now reminds you to log in to your chosen search provider in a separate tab first, so automated searches work first time instead of landing on a sign-in page.
The Getting Started guide now covers more genealogy websites for exporting a GEDCOM file, plus free options for starting a tree from scratch if you're working from paper records rather than an existing family tree.

Signing in with Google now lets you choose a different account, instead of always using whichever one your browser is already signed into.
Fixed an issue that could stop some Google accounts from being able to sign in at all.
Your Improvement Plan's census and date suggestions now take you straight to the right search tool for that person, instead of just their record page.
GEDCOM files with formatting problems now upload more reliably — the system automatically retries with more tolerant handling and lets you know when it does.
Fixed an issue where uploading a very large family tree (tens of thousands of people) could fail with an error instead of processing normally.

Added quick links from the Loose Births, Loose Deaths and Loose Info reports straight to a person's full facts.
Improved the accuracy of the Tree Health census coverage and date precision scores.

Added interactive Timeline and Lifeline maps, showing where and when your ancestors lived across their lives.
Added a choice of historical map styles.

Added Census Search, World Wars, On This Day, Duplicates and Loose reports as new ways to explore your tree.
Location matching on the map now works specifically from your own tree's places.

Added sign-in with Google, so you can save your tree and come back to it later without re-uploading.
Added the Privacy Policy, Terms of Service and Instructions pages.