New Features
Your copy of Parish Record Keeper will update itself to Alpha 3.10 automatically — there is nothing to download or install by hand. Below is a short overview of what this version brings, with a link to the full documentation for each feature.
The Server Actions Panel
Everything the "workspace" page of parishrecordkeeper.com does in a browser can now be done directly from inside Parish Record Keeper: publish a new master datafile, rebuild the online search database, hand in a version for the administrator to merge, download the master or a queued version, or clear the workspace on the server — all without opening a browser.
It is built for parishes with a slow or occasional connection: uploads and downloads run in real chunks with a visible progress bar, a failed chunk is retried instead of losing the whole transfer, and a large master file can be sent in the background so the computer stays usable while it goes up. Sign-in is remembered per datafile, and the start screen quietly shows whether the current datafile is registered and connected to its workspace.
Read the full Server Actions documentationFind and Merge Duplicate Church Records
Over the years the same person is often entered twice — a family re-registered at a new station, a register typed up a second time, or two parishes synced and the same person arriving from both sides. This new tool searches the whole set of church records, scores every likely pair on how alike they are, and lets you review and merge them two at a time — or let the safest, highest-scoring pairs merge automatically.
Nothing is guessed blindly: the search leans on your own Synonymous Names table to handle spelling variants, weighs dates of birth and baptism entries far more heavily than names alone, and remembers every pair you mark "not the same" so it is never offered again. A merge carries children, contributions and family files across correctly, keeps a full history of what was moved, and can be undone.
Read the full Finding Duplicates documentation