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Hi Louis Very impressed with the new version so far! Worth the wait! One little wrinkle (rather than bug) is in how probate is being handled (you may think I've got a fixation with probate as it was me who suggested in March 2012 that it usually came after death :) ). Anyway this is a typical message I'm ...

How about having the plain behold-setup.exe zipped into a file with the version? When you unzip, it general creates an outer folder with the version and the file within is as as virgin as you intend. Some people are nervous of downloading exposed 'exe' files anyway!

Hi Louis and Arnold I've been using Family Historian heavily (pending Behold!) and with one small caveat* it's gedcoms are accepted by Behold without any errors or cautions. FH uses Gedcom as its file system so there is no conversion to think of. Cheers, Colin * FH allows you to create custom events and ...

Interesting thoughts, as usual My solution is to record and process all my sources and reasoning in a dedicated program (I'm actually using GenQuiry, but did look at Evidentia as well). Such a program can be used in so many different workflows, but my aim is to end up with a single 'conclusion' document that ...

Well, you are both right, you are both wrong! Bad design does hold back otherwise good feature enhancements and lead to allegations of bloatware. But... extending your argument, you might as well have one MS Office program that does EVERYTHING!!! so long as it has a Ribbon to just show the most common ...

I noticed your recent blog post regarding correct ordering of dates (eg burial after death - which behold does correctly out of the box). Can I note that probate also must happen after death (and almost always after burial/cremation - I can only think of very esoteric reasons that would invert that!). Behold, ...