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Can GEDCOM 7.0 Succeed? - Blog comment by lkessler - 22 Jun 2021
cconser: I am strongly of the opinion that formatting and punctuation have no place in GEDCOM. GEDCOM is for transferring data. Formatting and punctuation should be left up to your software. It should decide how it wants to display something. You should not force anything on it.
See my article: ...
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Can GEDCOM 7.0 Succeed? - Blog comment by cconser - 22 Jun 2021
Thanks again. My main problem with GEDCOM's source tags/fields is that genealogists use such a variety of sources that it is nearly impossible to anticipate them using a few fields - even given the flexibility of the PAGE tag. The biggest restraint for me is formatting and punctuation. For example, layered ...
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Can GEDCOM 7.0 Succeed? - Blog comment by lkessler - 21 Jun 2021
cconser: I wrote a bit about it in my 2015 article: Is GEDCOM Good For Sources? https://www.beholdgenealogy.com/blog/?p=1480
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Can GEDCOM 7.0 Succeed? - Blog comment by cconser - 21 Jun 2021
Thanks for this analysis. Please tell me where can I find out more about the proper implementation of the PAGE tag.
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Can GEDCOM 7.0 Succeed? - Blog entry by lkessler - 15 Jun 2021
It’s been just over a week since FamilySearch released the official version of GEDCOM 7.0. See my article about the announcement. Now we probably will go into a period of silence, where nobody hears anything more about GEDCOM 7.0 for a while. The expectation is that all the developers are hard at work ...
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GEDCOM 7.0, Official - Blog entry by lkessler - 7 Jun 2021
FamilySearch released the official version of GEDCOM 7.0 today. You can find it at https://gedcom.io selecting “Specifications” from the menu. The standard is available as PDF or as HTML pages. The PDF is 96 pages, compared to Version 5.5.1 which was 101 pages. The specifications page also has a link to ...
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That’s not very Smart of you, Microsoft - Blog entry by lkessler - 7 May 2021
I’ve been an Independent Software Vendor (ISV), i.e. single developer operation, for over 15 years. I have had my products Behold and Double Match Triangulator available for download for the many versions of each of them. I never put adware, spyware, viruses or anything bad in my programs. I pay money each ...
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My Top 10 DNA Matches at Each Site - Blog entry by lkessler - 1 May 2021
Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge for this week is: I thought I’d do that, following Randy’s template: A) On AncestryDNA, I have 149,270 matches. My Top 10 matches are: * First cousin, mother’s side, 1,047 cM, in tree * First cousin, mother’s side, 914 cM, in tree * ...
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Using Behold as a Data Viewer for a WikiTree GEDCOM - Blog entry by lkessler - 13 Apr 2021
It’s been a while since I’ve put my full effort into getting Behold to that next level that would include GEDCOM export and editing. In fact, I have to admit that I really haven’t made a lot of changes to Behold except for bug fixes and a 64-bit executable since 2017. What I did start doing in February ...
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Can GEDCOM 7.0 Succeed? - Blog comment by cconser - 22 Jun 2021