I have looked at CFTW3 Beta1 with interest. There are many new and good ideas in the program, maybe a hundred. I have found some ten details, where I think that I can propose some improvements. 0. Opening Screen I propose the field OPEN to be renamed to f.inst. BROWSE, this may help against misunderstandings about its use. 1. Navigation The new version depends too much on the mouse, - I hate mices. A mouse may be useful for some editing, reordering or drag and drop functions. All normal selections should be possible by means of simple keystrokes. Use single keys whenever possible, f.inst. ESC instead of ALT-C. INSERT instead of ALT-I, PageUp/Arrow UP instead of ALT up etc. The keys should be consistent throughout the various screens. 2. Family group. I do not see any information in the blank area between Marr and SEX. I like to have information about adoptions or relation parents/children directly on the family screen. The pop up screen Parents shows all the parents, but I would like to be able to see the relation to the child. 3. Ancestors tab This screen is overwhelming and confusing in case of large databases. It shows a mix of natural and adopted parents, but not who is who. I very much prefer the traditional Pedigree Tree. But why can we not have both? 4. Story tab. I do not quite see the use of this, apart from being a debugging tool. What is the intention? Is it a preview of a printout? The Misc.Data are often not shown. 5. Edit Individual. The switching to the Edit screen flashes. I again see a blank area between Event and Sur without any information. A lot of my Placenames has disappeared, they are erroneously converted to Adresses in the conversion from vers.2, - please do not do that. I would like the screen to show if an Event is marked Sensitive. 6. Edit Event. The Misc.Data does'nt show up in the story. I expected that the purpose of the Free Format was to provide a modification of the standard format for this specific event. The actual function is not much different from what the Misc.Data does, so is it really needed? 7. Name Search. I have many persons with the same name. The new display makes it too difficult to find the right one, - vers.2 was much easier to use. The screen should show at least birth/chr. and placename, possibly also death/buri. The IRN is of secondary importance and could very well be moved to the new information field. The namedisplay does not always start with the Key person. 8. Wittness Event. This is a most interesting new facility, but... I am offered to register that person A witnessed an event at person B, but that is really NOT what I need to do. I want to register who witnessed the event of person B and that is not quite the same. A typical case is Witnesses to a Baptism and there may be as many as 5-7 Witnesses. These people are furthermore often known by name only and it is not always easy at the first moment to identify them precisely. 9. Adress. The Address construction is a dangerous thing. Genealogy programs handles ADDR in different ways, often in a wrong way. The Gedcom standard does NOT have any Event called ADDR. Address is according to Gedcom an Event Detail describing an Event, and it will therefore occur on level 2, not on level 1 in a Gedcom file. ADDR is in Gedcom at equal level with PLACE and they are both used in exactly the same way. This means that the correct way to place the Address information in CFT is in the Edit Event window in parallell to PLACE (there is in fact space for it!) 10. Sources. I am glad to be able to register more than one source. But I am confused about the new Source details. What I would like to see is a Source information which in accordance with Gedcom is divided into two parts: - The Source Record itself with a Source Descriptive Text - Details about the Source as related to the specific Event. The Event will have a pointer to a Source Record placed in a Source List. Following this pointer is a Note field with details related to both the Source Record and its specific use for this Event. This Source Note will give supplementing information about the Source, but it belongs to the Event, not to the Source. Example: The Birth points to the Source Record "Personal Records" The Source Note field contains "Birth Certificate" and it tells how the Source Record relates to this specific Event. Erik