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Well, it's now June and I haven't got Version 1.3 out yet. --Sigh-- I've been busy with DMT and I've got new and exciting things coming with it. But Behold is still a priority, and I resolved at New Year's to have Behold Version 1.5 out by the end of the year, so 1.3 will have to come before that.

Hi Deck, Yeah. I have the 1.3 version in development with a few features to finish off plus documentation update prior to release it. That's about a month or two of work. But I've been kept very busy with some exciting DNA work that I've been doing and I put Behold down a few months ago to finish off a new ...

Unfortunately, the companies find many people purchase DNA tests specifically for their ethnicity results. So they greatly advertise this and get testers. Some get good information. Others don't. This is not a science but is an approximate art. They should at least be telling you this in advance ... but then, ...

There are other calendars as well, such as the Chinese or Hindu calendars. GEDCOM doesn't even address those. What I think is most important is to make sure what people use and need the most works, and works well. Few people use other calendars in combination with Gregorian. If they do, they'll usually have a ...

Dave, Yes, the month numbers can be reused. And you're correct. This system will not sort correctly between calendars. I developed it mainly as a way to efficiently store GEDCOM dates in Behold, and figured out an easy way to also enable it to sort properly within a specific calendar. For anyone else reading ...

Michael, The concept was that the Tags page in the Organize window allows you to select what GEDCOM tags would display or be hidden. So deselecting SOUR in theory should hide all the sources. I'm not sure how well that works any more because many years and versions have happened since the Tags page was ...

... and then if you would, please send me the GEDCOM Famiy Historian produces from this file.

Colin, The best file 5.5.1 test file I know of are the 3 files at http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/GEDCOM_Musterdatei/Musterdatei that are in 3 different character encodings. All genealogy software should support all 3. The files also contain lines that test the organization's GEDCOM-EL extensions. All the ...

Colin, Grrrrr. I was hoping not to have to. What does Family Historian do when it encounters a 5.5.1 file now? All PAF exports are 5.5.1 and RootsMagic and etc. So I couldn't see Simon not having it programmed in. Louis

Colin, The idea is that these messages are designed to point out "likely" problems. Things you'll want to check. They should not be wrong more than 5% of the time or they are too loose. If fewer than 5% of probates occurs after a year, then it is set at about the right level, because you may have a few of them ...