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Not so Simple Mail Transfer Protocol - Blog comment by sachin - 31 Mar 2016

Hi Louis, First of all the very best for your business. Let me quickly introduce my self, I am Sachin Co-Founder of Pepipost. While investigating through the twitter post of Zvovu, we found that their account was dis-approved by our compliance team. The reason behind this was that their domain was not ...
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Looking for a Genealogy Program that Will Be Around for a Long Time - Blog comment by lkessler - 29 Mar 2016

Kevin: That's an awesome example of preservation gone very wrong. There are some great comments on that article as well. Speaking of time capsules, 10 yrs ago I submitted my name and it's on the NASA New Horizons spacecraft that flew by Pluto last year with the names of 434,737 others. ...
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Looking for a Genealogy Program that Will Be Around for a Long Time - Blog comment by kbroutley - 29 Mar 2016

The reference to the time capsule, combined with the fragility of paper reminded me of this: http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/enormous-time-capsule-opened-sucks-1732915118 Multiple backups, multiple formats ... Keep up the good work! Kevin
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Ancestral Birthplace Chart - Blog comment by lkessler - 28 Mar 2016

Uwe: True country-wise. But if I did it by town name, it would be boring again.
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Ancestral Birthplace Chart - Blog comment by uwem - 28 Mar 2016

Louis, I believe that the above is a very unfortunate way to display ancestral birth places. It doesn't take into account that countries come and go, that territories change hands through wars, that political structures are turned upside down. A lot of background information is lost this way since you do ...
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How to Program Dates for Genealogy - Blog comment by lkessler - 9 Mar 2016

Thanks, Mervyn. That helps my understanding. Quaker dates are not supported by GEDCOM, so they'd have to be put as a date phrase in parenthesis. But a smart program would be able to interpret them from the date phrase.
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Unlock the Past Genealogy Cruise 10 Blog Compendium - Blog comment by lonetester - 8 Mar 2016

Great work Louis. So much to read!
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Unlock the Past Genealogy Cruise 10 Blog Compendium - Blog comment by rjseaver - 8 Mar 2016

No problem. Good job, Louis!
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How to Program Dates for Genealogy - Blog comment by mjashby - 4 Mar 2016

Quote: "I’ve never seen a Quaker date" Put simply, Quaker dates do not use month names and usually appear in Quaker records in the following format: 3 vi 1790, which equates to 3 August 1790, i.e. Quakers don't (didn't) accept the general use of month names except for September to December as the months ...
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Sort of a Date - Blog comment by lkessler - 21 Feb 2016

Dirk, I'm currently away at the Unlock the Past genealogy cruise. I'll check the issues you pointed out when I get back. Louis