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I think you should not let others tell you how to spend your free time, including me ;) As for the 1.1 update, the changelog is very impressive, and it will be a very big step forward to have "life events". If you think that a rudimentary editor is possible to add quickly, without it being in the way of the ...

Thank you Louis, that is really good news! Have fun with the documentation!

Well... I am listening, and waiting for a cool program that makes it easy to do just what you describe. Build it and they will come ;-)

Source-based data entry is definitely the only way to go! Custodian looks very powerful, it may be too much for a smaller family history research. I'll install the demo. For power users, the traditional view of a big screen with many fields (and templates!) might be the best. But I've been thinking that a ...

Interesting list. I agree with many points, but I think the twitter/facebook/etc connections are not top priorities. If you ever add anything like that, please make it optional. "Gamification" is kind of a trend, but I'm not too sure about it. I mean, genealogy is already a puzzle game for geeks, so all I can ...

Louis, thanks for checking. I can export Unicode GEDCOM from my program, so, for me, there is no need to hurry with a new version. Klemens

Hi Louis, currently, a group of German programmers are working to make their GEDCOM export and import more standard compliant and compatible to each other. They have not yet finished, but there is a GEDCOM test file that aims to use every tag that is defined in GEDCOM and every convention they have agreed on. ...

Hi Louis, I tried opening a GEDCOM file with umlauts in Behold 1.0.5.1. Instead of the umlauts, boxes were displayed. The file was UTF-8 with BOM. When I converted it to UTF-8 without BOM, everything was fine. Also, Unicode (UTF-16) was fine, too. Can you replicate this? Klemens