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Stanczyk: I read your blog posts about your impressions of RootsTech and your writings about the GEDCOM standard with much interest. Too bad you hadn't heard of me or Behold prior to the conference, or I would have made a point of meeting with you. Louis

Stanczyk: There are as many "answers" as there are people. We each have our opnions. That's why a standard is so tough - because everyone has to compromise. The difference with SQL is that enhancements can often be added to specific implementations without worry. Usually the SQL code does not get ...

Brett, I think who wins as the future GEDCOM is very much up in the air. There have been dozens of proposals to date that never caught on. And there's several new initiatives now, and each may get to some point of usability, or may not. People don't realize how much time and work it takes to develop a new ...

I intend to keep up with the development of any new standard. I'm involved with BetterGEDCOM and GEDCOMX and am staying up-to-date with all the progress towards a new GEDCOM. Writing the input and output for any new standard is not difficult, and that could be done in not too long a time, maybe a month. But ...

Thanks, Kulath, With the new BetterGEDCOM and now GEDCOM X work being done, I'm trying to stress that they attempt simplicity rather than complicated models attempting to include everything. They attempt to include everything because they think that this will allow the data to be transferred, but by doing so ...

Brett: Thanks for posting this here. If I may add for the readers a few important things that you pointed out to me in your emails to me about this: FTM 2010 could not read this file because it says it is GEDCOM Version 5.5.1 and FTM gave the message: "GEDCOM file must be version 5.5 or greater". Hmmm. ...

Thanks goulooze. Feedback is good. Beer is good, too.

Brett: I'm still making my last few changes to the event sorting. I have to put the children in birthdate order, and the spouses into marriage order. I'll be embedding them into the right place (date-wise) amongst all the events of an individual. Doing so just makes adding the consistency checking very ...

Thanks for that, Brett. You'll be interested to know that as a result of your earlier email to me, I reinvestigated consistency checking. With the addition of true date parsing and my implementation of that in version 1.0.1, this is now quite possible, and the setup of Behold makes it rather do-able. If I ...

Andy, Then it must be that FTM must have special code to fix the Member Tree "mess". I notice amongst my 683 test files, I only have 2 that indicate they are from Ancestry.com Family Trees. I'll take a look at those and I'll download a few more from Google using the search: "sour ancestry.com family ...