Change Log

What Is the Change Log?

Filtering the Change Log

Controlling the Size of the Change Log

What is NOT Recorded in the Change Log

What Is the Change Log?

The Change Log feature helps you to keep track of and locate the changes made to a family file and make it easy to navigate directly to the record and field that was changed.

To show the Change Log, choose File > Change Log from the main menu at the top.

You can also click Logs in the navbar and then choose Change Log.

When the Change Log appears, remember these two important tips:

Here is an example of a Change Log:

The Change Log has four columns...

The Change Log is sorted by Date; however, it's easy to filter the log to show specific information, as explained next.

Filtering the Change Log

One powerful way to filter the list is to Right-click or Control-click any entry in the list. When you do this, a pop-up menu will appear.

This menu makes it easy to search for...

To show changes to all records; or, to show only changes to people, families, sources or deleted records, use the Show menu in the upper-left corner of the Change Log window.

You can also look for particular people/families in the Change Log by using the search box at the top.

Controlling the Size of the Change Log

Clicking the Tools button (in the lower-left corner) will open the Change Log Tools window. This window provides the means to reduce the number of entries in the Change Log. It may be desirable to trim the log if, for example, you've imported 100,000 entries in a GEDCOM file and you don't really need to have a record of those 100,000 changes to your family file.

Deleting entries in the Change Log does not impact the data in your family file.

What is NOT Recorded in the Change Log

To keep the Change Log focused on people/families/sources, the following items are not recorded in the Change Log...

More Details About the Change Log