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Whew. You had me worried. First about merging for the sake of merging, and second about wanting a refund ... also just kidding.My problem with side-by-side merge/display programs is that they need to have selected fields to compare: Name, Birth date, Birth place, Wife, Children, etc. There is a lot they can't ...

Now you've reached into something that I feel very strongly about. I am and always have been dead set against merging other people's data into your own. I am shocked at how much importance is seen in being able to do this. This has caused a horrible problem: a proliferation of "junk genealogy" where little is ...

No. I'm actually 3rd in line as well. My older daughter is at camp. But she got to take the 2nd copy that we bought. I have to have the book finished in the next few days when she's back for break so that we can all discuss it together. I would have been 4th, but Mom's willing to read it later.

Ahhh, the mind of a programmer! My current Blog at: www.lkessler.com/behold/behoblog.shtml only has 1 occurrence of "shower" in it, but my pre-alpha Blog: www.lkessler.com/behold/behoblog2.shtml has eight! A really good entry was my one from December 26, 2002. Louis

Ha ha! Mother's Day would have been a snap compared to this weekend. It's hard to stay awake and work after you've eaten as much as we did.

I agree with you 100% re sources.One clarification: With Behold, you still won't enter the data by source. It will still be entered by person and by event into the Everything Report.But the difference (in my early concept) is that there will be a "current source" window always visible at the bottom of the ...

Of course, my sample of GEDCOMs is not statistically random and is a bit biased towards older ones. But none-the-less, I would agree with your conclusion.To top this off, of the 17 GEDCOMs, 5 of them have very few sources, less than 1 source per 2 individuals. 6 of them are what I would call marginally ...

I'm not sure how knowing the active individual would be helpful in the Organize functions, except for Instant Organize. In that latter case, if you hover over the Instant Organize button, then you will see who that person is as a tooltip and in the status bar.Other than Instant Organize, what is it you see that ...

Good question! It is decided on the basis of who has the most significant collection of ancestors in the file. Auto Organize will always come up with the same primary family, unless the people in your GEDCOM significantly changes.You can quite easily select different people to center the report on. This is done ...

So far I've only entered a few of the more common tags into Behold as default tags. I did plan to enter the rest of them for the release of version 0.99 beta, although now that you mention it, I could move that up a bit in the schedule.In the meantime, you can enter any tags you use that are currently ...