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Tony, I mostly agree with you. 1. My paper is regarding source references only. When footnotes/endnotes are used for other purposes such as supplementary information, then you are correct that they use a different structure. I would suggest that they can be easily handled by using a note subordinate to a ...

You're a bit early. I've got my development version of Behold reading GEDCOM 2.0 right now and will display the data in the file, but Behold is not yet a GEDCOM writer and will not be able to export the data to GEDCOM 5.5.1 yet. That will come. It's not quite as easy as changing tags. The linkages of ...

Mervyn, Point well taken. But my rant worked. And it only took a day! :-) These distractions (BetterGEDCOM, FHISO, Gaenovium, etc) are causing delays in the short run for Behold. But this work will allow me to have a positive effect on the future of genealogy for all genealogists, even more-so than ...

Brett: Regarding this issue, also see our conversation in the Behold Forum we had about two years ago: http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=132 I now believe the "any case allowed" only pertains in GEDCOM to selections from a set of "standardized or controlled line_value choices", which is ...

Brett, I think I had it earlier and may have taken out because of a possible misinterpretation by myself regarding "All controlled line_value choices should be considered as case insensitive". But rethinking, I believe that statement refers to line_values that are selections from a list of items. A date is a ...

Tony, I liked Outlook Express when I used it, but it is now getting very old. Back in 2007, I switched from OE to Microsoft Mail when I went to Vista (the computer I just replaced). I'd suggest getting those emails out of OE while you still can - if you still can. I'm also not sure why my country detector ...

All good things take waaaaay too long.

The Lynn file is a real file with over 90,000 people in it. This size can often happen when people merge other people's research into theirs (something I don't recommend). However, you can also achieve such sizes by loading multiple GEDCOMs at once, as Behold allows (but few others do). Multiple files will play ...

I agree that a few pieces of paper are easier to scan quickly than digital documents, just as physical books are more pleasant to read than digital books. But a good digital organization system (by source) combined with a good full text search engine is hard to beat when it comes to locating lots of stuff, e.g. ...

Taco, Thank you for your detailed reply. Let me try in return. 1. If a hundred family historians came to one incorrect conclusion, it's probably because 99 of them copied it from the first. 2. I'd say less than 1% of genealogists want to "publish" as in journal type of publishing. I think the ...