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Louis Does the GEDCOM character limit include the TAG? If no, would this be suitable for vs and date? VERS xx.x.x mm-dd-yy Brett

OK, so I did jump too early. I have validated through the above and also Genealogica Grafica and GenMatcher. I will report all errors in an email. In the meantime, the one error of most interest is: Invalid content for DATE tag: '28 APR 1997' is not a valid <DATE_VALUE> This does not error in Behold. ...

After several years, much assistance from Behold's great GEDCOM validation, advice from Louis and support from Darrin and the User Group of The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding (TNG), I now have a GEDCOM exported file which meets 5.5.1. What a pleasure it was to see 'No problems to report.' in the File ...

Format members Occasionally you do not know a complete date, such as: 13 (Date only known) 13 APR (Date and month only known) APR (Month only known). What/how do people code this in their software? Do they: Key it in the date field? Include it as a note? Some other option. Thanks Brett

Well, that did not go that well. Tried adding Name, no problem, but the software does not give oportunity to put type: 0 @I91@ INDI 1 NAME Ann /Guest/ 2 GIVN Ann 2 SURN Guest 1 NAME Letitia Holland Hmmm. Off to the developer I guess.

Thanks Louis. I will update my data by removing Alias and use Also Known As.

Louis Below is an error from the log file. Are you able to explain what is incorrect, so I can refer the export to the software developer. Extract from GEDCOM 1 BURI 2 DATE AFT 26 JUN 1826 2 PLAC Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia 1 ALIA Letitia Holland 1 NOTE State Records Authority NSW: 2 CONT 24 Oct ...

Thanks Louis I am not in a rush, I was just wondering. I saw you busily working on "life events" into the individual profiles, on your future page. Keep up the good work.

How is Version 1.0.5, planned for February 2012 progressing Louis?

Don't worry Louis. Found it under Future Plans - valid GEDCOM 5.5.1, even from invalid input.