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Thank, Dirk. I've now fixed this in the article. I likely will change the double dates to 1 character when I implement Behold's own external file format. If and when I do, I'll try to remember to update this article.

Very likely! I missed that because GEDCOM 5.5.1 does not refer to "U" as "UNKNOWN" but as "Undetermined from available records and quite sure that it can’t be". GEDCOM 5.5 only allowed M=Male and F=Female and had size 7. It did not allow U or Unknown. But GEDCOM 5.4 allowed M=Male and F=Female and ...

cp: I have about 4 books on genealogy numbering in my library, including one by Richard Pence which Mark Forkham refers to. Like Mark, I'm not really enamored by any of the traditional numbering systems, especially when you are combining going up the tree and going down. Mark's is a good attempt, Thanks ...

Thanks for the ideas, Rob. I was thinking about using lower case for descendants and upper case for ancestors as you suggest. Instead of "?", I was thinking of Z and z. And that would be good for an extension of this notation. But my specific purpose for this notation is to identify the DNA relationship. For ...