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... or other aspects of genealogy (e.g. GEDCOM, organizing your source material, source-based genealogy, or life-events) that I believe genealogists should learn about or at least be aware of. This particular ship has a 320 seat conference room assigned to our conference that can be divided into 4 rooms, allowing concurrent programming. There will be excellent ...

... files. … and then editing … directly into the Everything Report … and then source-based data entry … and then evidence/conclusion support … and then picture support I’m getting ahead of myself again. But the possibilities are really endless. Sorry about this post, but from time to time, I have to burst out about my excitement. I’m getting there.

... for me were the reactions I got whenever I said that Behold in version 2 will support source-based data entry. I even got applause at the discussion panel for that. The feeling I got at the conference is genealogists universally think that sources and citations are the current weakness in genealogy software. People need new and better tools to enter them, deal with them, ...

... of export to GEDCOM 5.5.1 in version 1.5, editing in version 2.0 which will introduce source-based data entry, evidence/conclusion support, and future Mac, iOS, Android and Unix versions, and it sounds pretty impressive … even to me. We drew for the two winners of a free lifetime license, and one was a Mac user who gave it to her friend (a Windows user). I stuck around ...

... were lots of questions. I was surprised when I mentioned that I planned to implement source-based genealogy data entry and it resulted in a significant amount of applause. I will have to move that up a step in importance in my future plans. At the end of the panel, Russ Worthington, one of the originals of BetterGEDCOM made his way over to us, and we all had a nice talk. ...

... it. I don’t know what I can do to make that easier. Same with the idea of using source-based data entry rather than people-based. But for the few that did get it, they were quite impressed. One who didn’t understand did say that she loved my enthusiasm. I’ll keep experimenting and see what I can do to express the concepts better. Other than my two users, I did not ...

... are soon to be lifted with Behold. But that is only the beginning. Virtual merging, source-based data entry, and evidence/conclusion support are three more concepts that will equally rock the genealogy world like editing on the Everything Report shall do. Maybe I should have entered just the Instant Organize function of Behold into the contest. Maybe I should have entered ...

... or people) and their number. This will, in version 2, be the essential part of the source-based data entry system (if you choose to use it) that Behold will have. You’ll enter your source, and the references within the source, and you’ll create the events that the source reference provides for you, and they’ll get linked semi-automatically to the people and places ...

... the evidence you used and the conclusions you formulated. Solution: Behold's source-based data entry is the first step. Each source you use becomes evidence - evidence you use to formulate a conclusion. While you enter your sources, Behold will make it easy for you to add your conclusion information to your family information while quickly linking it to the ...

... effort by other genealogy software developers to promote that. So this will be source-based genealogy data entry. But there's more ... Each individual will now start getting "loaded" with the events that pertain to them. You'll get different and conflicting information about the same event. The second step is the conclusion process. Behold may warn you about the ...