Changelog

Added · What's new

• •Family Research applications can now cover several lineages at once (up to four). Enter the surname for each lineage, and the total amount is shown on the application screen.
• •Each plan in the Family Research price list now has an "Apply with this plan" button. The application screen opens with that plan already selected.
• •Your details on the application screen are now filled in from your earlier applications and your registered information. You can edit anything that is filled in.
• •We published the "Our Commitment to Your Peace of Mind" page, which explains how your family's records are protected. A short guide to it is also on the home page.

Changed · Improvements

• •Applying for Family Research now starts after you sign in. If you are not signed in, the sign-in screen opens first, and if you sign in with your email address you return to the application screen afterwards.
• •We added an explanation to "Head of the current register" and made it optional, so you can apply even if you do not know it.
• •The label "Estimated fee" now reads "Amount due".
• •Your application history now shows every lineage you selected.
• •The FAQ entry about applying for several lineages now says "up to four lineages at once".
• •We improved how the home page looks in dark mode.

Fixed · Fixes

• •In dark mode, the questions in the home page FAQ were hard to read. This is corrected.

Security · For your safety

• •If the site is opened from an unencrypted address (http), you are now switched automatically to the encrypted connection (HTTPS).
• •After several wrong passwords in a row, login becomes unavailable for a while. This makes it harder for third parties to get in by trying again and again.

Fixed · What we corrected

• •Ancestors could not be added. If you have completed Family Research, you may now add ancestors from any person, not only from the topmost generation.
• •Message recipients always came back as "no results", so nobody could be selected. You can now search by name, nickname or email address, and the space between family name and given name no longer matters.
• •That search message appeared in Korean on the Japanese screen.
• •Two family buttons were highlighted at the same time. For a member who married into the family, their birth family now comes first and their spouse's family appears as a separate button.
• •Half-siblings — children who share one parent but not the other — appeared joined by the same horizontal line. Each parent couple now has its own line.
• •Nieces and nephews did not appear on the chart. Even when a sister has married out, her children are now shown on the same chart.
• •Couples are ordered correctly again. A person whose sex is not yet registered was pushed to the far right, which left the current spouse standing outside the former spouse.

Added · What is new

• •When you add a family member from "Family Data", the relationship is now required. Once chosen, the person appears on the family tree straight away.
• •Anyone without a registered relationship is now listed together at the top of "Family Data". Tap a name to add their relationship on the spot.
• •You can now delete a person from their own page. Until now deletion was only possible inside the family tree, so anyone not shown on the tree could not be removed at all. If the person has children, a dotted placeholder card remains so the lineage stays connected.

Changed · What improved

• •Anniversary reminders sometimes arrived twice with the same content. They were being sent from the server used before the migration, which has now been stopped. From now on you will receive one message only.

Added · What's new

• •We added this "Changelog" page. You can see what has changed on the site here at any time.
• •We added "How much does it cost to request family registers myself?" to the FAQ.

Changed · Improvements

• •Anniversary reminder emails now include the recipient's name, the original date of the anniversary (with the Japanese era year) and our contact details.
• •At the top of the column "The cost of creating a family tree" we summarised the fee per family register document and a rough total per family line. We also added a note about the nationwide issuance system that began in March 2024.
• •In the column "Will half of all family lines disappear in 50 years?" we added what happens to graves and family registers when a family line ends, and what you can do now.
• •The FAQ section on the home page now shows a selected set of the questions we are asked most often.

Fixed · Fixes

• •We fixed a problem where some members' story pages would not open.
• •The "page not found" message is now shown in Japanese.

Changed · Improvements

• •Dates such as a date of birth can now be entered in three separate fields for year, month and day. The day of the week is shown as you type.
• •Every screen where you enter a date — family records, anniversaries and events, your profile, Family Research applications — now works the same way.

Added · What's new

• •We added a word of welcome to the confirmation email sent when you register.

Changed · Improvements

• •Registration and password reset emails now arrive in the language you are using on screen (Japanese or Korean).
• •We gave our emails a design and typeface that read comfortably on any device.
• •The languages you can choose in the settings screen now match the languages this site supports.

Fixed · Fixes

• •Anniversary reminders are now delivered for each timing you chose on My Page, from three months ahead up to the day itself.
• •We fixed a problem where anniversary reminder settings could fail to save on My Page.
• •We fixed a problem where your name was not shown correctly in password reset emails.
• •We reviewed how enquiries and Family Research applications are processed so that they are received more reliably.

Fixed · Fixes

• •We fixed a problem where password reset emails did not arrive.
• •We fixed a problem where "Keep me signed in" did not work.
• •We changed how emails are sent so that long messages are no longer broken up part way through.

Added · What's new

• •We put in place a system that delivers notices to members reliably.
• •We added a page where you can choose for yourself whether to receive notification emails.

Changed · Improvements

• •On Japanese screens, kanji are now shown in their Japanese forms (for example 戸).

Fixed · Fixes

• •We fixed a problem where some members' names were not being shown.

Changed · Improvements

• •The "News" section on the home page now lists new columns and notices automatically.
• •The "FAQ" section on the home page now draws on the FAQ content.
• •We added "Home" to the menu.
• •We settled on familystorage.jp as the site's address.
• •We made it easier for search engines and AI to understand what this site is about.

Changed · Improvements

• •We settled on "Column" as the name for the blog.
• •We tidied up the look of the "About family trees" page.
• •Notices on the home page are now shown for one month.

Security · For your safety

• •We extended the protection against forged submissions to the sign-in and password reset screens as well.

Added · What's new

• •We added the "About family trees" page. It covers how to build a family tree, how to gather family registers, and a guide to the costs.
• •We began the column series "Tracing a family tree" and published six pieces.
• •The Family Map screen now shows its version number.

Changed · Improvements

• •In the Korean edition we changed "패밀리 맵" to "가계도 맵".

Fixed · Fixes

• •We fixed a problem where the AI Family Storyteller screen ran off the side on smartphones.

Added · What's new

• •We opened the fully renewed Family Storage as a beta test. The official launch is 14 September.
• •We prepared the "Family Map", which you can move with your finger on a phone or computer; the "AI Family Storyteller", which tells you stories based on your family's records; and "Anniversary reminders", which let you know about birthdays and death anniversaries.
• •You can also register with a Google or LINE account.

Changed · Improvements

• •We made pages load faster.