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Rather than replace the original, it would be of more use to compare it to what we've got now ... just 23 days later:

Dave: Thanks for your comments. The questions at Area51 are just proposed example questions, and yes you are correct, that finding other people doing similar research is not one of them listed. Personally, in addition to the other types of questions, I wouldn't mind seeing it used the way you suggest. If ...

Anquestory: I remember Everton. They had a very good magazine and did a lot for the genealogical community. As far as the Q&A site goes, once it's up and into Beta, it will be the participants themselves who judge the quality of your questions. Your question will be upvoted if good, and downvoted if ...

Terrific Nita! If you could sign up at the site Proposal site and vote for some questions, that will help get it to Beta phase and once in Beta we'll actually have a site to use. See my detailied instructions at: https://plus.google.com/106257958448273208907/posts/GAYKVrtMWGH Louis

Thanks Brett and Deckie, It's the display of data with the Life/Family events shown that I hope you'll like. When the data input finally comes, I'm sure that part will blow you and everyone else away. Source-based data entry on top of that should be just what's needed. I used slide rules, too. But I was ...

Tony: Behold does some of that already. If there are no dates, then births will come first, then living events, then the death, and then a few post-death events (burial, cremation). But in the long run, I think all dates (for at least births and marriages) should be estimated as best as possible and ...

Thanks Goulooze, Aldfaer's display is interesting. I somewhat like Aldfaer's summary of a person, e.g.: "Fekje Damstra, 88, 1867-1955 (x1887, 7k)" which means: "lived to age 88, born 1867, died 1955, married 1887, had 7 children". But the Persoon tab is a bit minimalistic showing only: "6 zus Leentje ...

Brett: The last few things I'm doing in this version are significant, so the next version will be called 1.1. Still a few nuances I'm deciding on whether to handle or not. Here's one example. Your mother divorces your father. But a few years later they remarry. That's usually two different FAM records. ...

Thanks Bart. I'll try.

Tamura is right. Bloatedness adds overhead in execution time and transfer time. If a standard is used for everything and that everything becomes 4 times bigger than it need be, then it's a waste. When online databases of millions of names are created, it will slow things down from 4 to 16 times. That will slow ...