Ideas under consideration for the future: The list below describes our goals, and should not be considered a commitment. Meanwhile, we will continue to add in the missing pieces and when the program is fully functional and tested, it will be officially released. While these developmental versions are not yet ready for actual research use, it is a great way to have your feedback and ideas reflected in future releases. Send email requests to if you are interested in receiving further information. We continue to invite current Clooz 3 users to join in this testing effort. It did however provide a glimpse of the new features we are very excited about, and it was well received by the testers.
This developmental release was only a partial implementation of the full set of Clooz functionality required for official release.
On December 1, 2019, the first developmental version of Clooz 4 was released for early testing to a small group of Clooz 3 users. In the meantime, Clooz does operate fine on Mac computers under virtual Windows environments such as VMWare Fusion and Parallels.
It remains possible that there may be a Mac OS X version further out in time, but for now, the initial implementation of version 4 is now focused entirely on Windows. Unfortunately, after years of effort we came to the conclusion that a Mac OS X version of Clooz was beyond our limited resources. Our original goal was to support both Windows and Mac OS X computers (without special virtual Windows environments). Since 2014, we have been working on a total rewrite of the program to support more flexible development of document templates and use of document data. Clooz 3.6 (July 2019) – Maintenance release fixing a number of minor issues.Improvements to the Composite view filtering and sorting capabilities. Clooz 3.5 (Oct 2015) – Import/Export capability with Family Historian.
Clooz 3.3.5 (April 2014) – Imports from RootsMagic, The Master Genealogist and GEDCOM files were added.Media Location Tool for fixing broken media file links when moving to a new computer. Clooz 3.3 (Oct 2013) – Expanded Legacy Family Tree interface allowing Clooz documents to be exported to Legacy and create events for people in the Legacy database.Clooz 3.2 (Feb 2013) – The Composite View (hierarchical display of documents & people).Clooz 3.1 (2012) – Exchange people and sources with Legacy Family Tree databases.Here are just a few of the highlights during the lifetime of Clooz 3: A steady stream of new features and capabilities in Clooz has continued since then. It’s been nearly eight years since Clooz 3.0 was first publicly released in July 2012.