News

Interviews

Hear Liz Kerstens in two interviews she's been in regarding Clooz Version 2:

• The first is an interview by Drew Smith of GenealogyGuys.com (click here)
• The second is by Dick Eastman of Eastman's Online Genealogy Newletter (for interview click here). 

What's New in Clooz 2.1

The new version includes, in addition to the existing templates of version 1.23: 

• 1911 Canadian Census

• 1831-1901 French Censuses

• 1819 German Census (Mecklenburg Schwerin)

• 1801-1900 Norwegian Censuses

• 1836, 1921-1945 Newfoundland Censuses

• 1906 NW Provinces of Canada Census

• Agricultural, Buildings, Business, Mortality, and Manufacturing censuses for Canada (where available)

• 1850-1885 US Mortality Schedules

• 1850-1885 US Agricultural Schedules

• 1850-1885 US Manufacturing Schedules

• 1880 US DDD Schedule

Under census substitutes, in addition to directories (of which there are now four types--religious, farm, school, and population) and Irish Valuation, there are the following forms:

• Tax Record

• Irish Tithe Applotments

• Voters' List

Under documents, in addition to the existing selections, there are also:

• Birth Record

• Deed

• Marriage Record

• Naturalization

• Passenger List, Early

• Passenger List, Later

• SSDI

In addition to photos, there is an entry for Maps.

The source templates are designed following the writings of Elizabeth Shown Mills in her book Evidence!

And, there is a Research Log.

In addition to your People list, you can add businesses to a Business list. And, there is a Building form that you can use to document house histories.

The program has been completely rewritten in Visual Basic .Net, but still uses a Microsoft Access database to store your data (and a Legacy Family Tree database is also used for storing data—there are actually two databases for your data now). Your data currently in your database will be completely imported into the appropriate places in the new program, although you may need to do some tweaking for some of the new forms. And, most significantly, there is a GEDCOM import. No more ASCII text imports.

Reviews

Clooz 2.0

Gordon Gray reviewed Clooz 2.0 in the November/December 2006 issue of Digital Genealogist.

Diana and Gary Smith reviewed Clooz 2.0 in the July/August/September 2006 issue of Genealogical Computing.

Barbara Schenck reviewed Clooz 2.0 in the July/August/September 2006 issue of the NGS NewsMagazine.

Clooz 1.2

Dick Eastman reviewed Clooz in the 24 July 2000 edition of Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter.

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