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And I know that the raw AncestryDNA from my friend was indeed downloaded in 2017. I am no expert here, so must be missing something!

So... you are saying that DMT can't use Ancestry DNA data because it can't be downloaded. But two weeks later you say "At AncestryDNA, you need a 3rd party tool to get your DNA matches downloaded. I used the the DNAGedcom client tool.". So, if you can download it, can DMT use it?

I went through the complete original list (not looked at the ones that missed your first pass yet) and the only one that went 'pow' for me and my workflow was VyTräd - how to truly organise your electronic genealogy documents in a truly expandible hierarchy. Pity it didn't make the final ten.

Hi Louis - I've used the exact same PDF program (firstly the free reader and then the editor) as it was the only one I found that could easily custom scale when printing a PDF. So an A3 to A4 print at exactly 71% rather than a 'fit to page' would retain exact scale when printing architectural plans (assuming ...

Although, again, not directly relevant to DNA, there does seem to be a bit of reinventing the wheel on how to record complex 'transverse' relationships here. My favourite is Mark Forkheim's system from over ten years ago... http://www.forkheim.ca/family/num3.html http://www.forkheim.ca/family/num2.html

Hi Louis, Sorry for the delay - this was one of those threads that disappeared and I couldn't get back for few weeks. So I've just downloaded the three files and tested them on FH5.0.9. Ascii and UTF-8 loaded fine (with a slew of 5.5.1 derived exceptions). The unicode file wouldn't load at all, but FH6 is now ...

I'll test - would be good to know. Do you have a test 5.5.1 file to hand? The two that come with Behold are olde stylee and customised for PAF and Legacy.

Yep, that all sounds good Louis!

Hi Louis Yep, Behold will do it right. I was more concerned with having a 'correct' gedcom now, and adding the underscore myself was a simple step to 'regularise' it. If it created problems in FH then I wouldn't bother. Will Behold will offer the choice of gedcom 5.5 or 5.5.1? I don't know if FH will accept ...

Hi Louis - thanks for your thoughts. Most probates are certainly within a year, but... Probate is one of those things (especially if there is a second one) that can occur many many years after the event. Doing a straw poll in just my 'to hand' records, I've got 1) died 1854, probate 1865; 2) died 1873, probate ...