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That's funny. I notice I have Family Book Creator in GenSoftReviews, and even wrote in its description that it is a plugin for FTM. And I did read Tamura's article, but obviously I didn't register that FTM had a plugin capability. So much of the article was about Ancestry that I must have been thinking ...

Keith: Thinking about this further, I've come to realize that thinking that the encryption of the SQLite database makes your data secure is quite inaccurate. In fact, anyone can read a Family Tree Maker database file by simply copying it to their own machine and opening it up in their own version of Family ...

Thanks for your comments Keith. Then I suppose you'll never use a tool like RootsMagic, because its database is open and someone might get the .rmgc file from your computer and read it. And you'll never make a GEDCOM of all your data and never send that data to anyone (at least not with your living people ...

Sachin, I was actually impressed by Pepipost's responsiveness on Twitter, and it very much seemed to me that your company is actively trying to engage with your customers and potential customers. I do have to admit that the one bad tweet I mention above did get me looking at the other services and I did try ...

Kevin: That's an awesome example of preservation gone very wrong. There are some great comments on that article as well. Speaking of time capsules, 10 yrs ago I submitted my name and it's on the NASA New Horizons spacecraft that flew by Pluto last year with the names of 434,737 others. ...

Uwe: True country-wise. But if I did it by town name, it would be boring again.

Thanks, Mervyn. That helps my understanding. Quaker dates are not supported by GEDCOM, so they'd have to be put as a date phrase in parenthesis. But a smart program would be able to interpret them from the date phrase.

Dirk, I'm currently away at the Unlock the Past genealogy cruise. I'll check the issues you pointed out when I get back. Louis

Thank, Dirk. I've now fixed this in the article. I likely will change the double dates to 1 character when I implement Behold's own external file format. If and when I do, I'll try to remember to update this article.

Very likely! I missed that because GEDCOM 5.5.1 does not refer to "U" as "UNKNOWN" but as "Undetermined from available records and quite sure that it can’t be". GEDCOM 5.5 only allowed M=Male and F=Female and had size 7. It did not allow U or Unknown. But GEDCOM 5.4 allowed M=Male and F=Female and ...