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It’s impossible to get a standard agreed on that is complete enough to include everything needed in an unambiguous way that every programmer will include and implement perfectly. While I reluctantly agree to the above, I would be hoping that any standard developed and accepted by a reasonable number of ...

All this is somewhat too technical for a mere genealogist as myself. I appreciate the advantage of a standard 'protocol' for transferring information between programs. But I am at a loss as to why GEDCOM X may end up being the only format in the running for this standard. Originally, I thought GEDCOM X ...

"it is helping me decide just what it is that genealogists really need in life events that will help them visualize the life of their ancestor." While I agree with you, do you really think FTM thought of it this way or more a "this is how I think a genealogist' wants to work? Seems if it is so hidden, it is ...

If the mother remarried and the new husband adopted her child to join her as a legal parent, then you want that presented appropriately. You don’t really want to see 2 families with the mother listed twice and her as adopting her own child. The mother is only one person. This something I asked about some ...

I assume this applies to BET, ABt etc in that they can be Bet, bet etc but compared upper or lower cased. Brett

So what does: values should be converted to all uppercase or all lowercase prior to comparing. actually mean? Is this when: 1. comparing two dates within a program, such as to work out age or 2. two supposedly identical GEDCOMs are compared for differences? If 1 above, how does a user know it is being done ...

Louis What do you make of Tamura Jone's comment (http://www.tamurajones.net/SiblingTortureTest.xhtml): None of these produced any errors or warnings, except Behold 1.04. Behold warned that the date 13 Apr 2012 is non-standard, and should be 13 APR 2012; the warning is that the abbrevation should be in ...

As usual, you have explained it to the degree it is no longer a thought to consider. Patiently waiting for that next version. Brett

New: Add date consistency checking, that verifies event dates by comparing them with each person's birth and death dates and placing a message in the Everything Report next to the suspicious date. Louis Is it possible to display this in the log file as well as/instead of please. Brett

This looks very promising Louis. Brett