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Reading GEDCOM – A Guide for Programmers - Blog comment by lkessler - 22 Oct 2023
Bob (Coret):
Main reason is that 5.5.1 is supported by 98% of genealogy vendors, whereas the number who have implemented some form of 7.0 can be counted on one hand. There are many reasons why I don't think 7.0 will ever take hold. See my newest blog post Is Updating the GEDCOM Standard Necessary?
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Is Updating the GEDCOM Standard Necessary? - Blog entry by lkessler - 22 Oct 2023
The GEDCOM Standard was first developed almost 40 years ago as a way to store genealogical data and transfer it between programs. It was developed about the same time the first genealogical software programs were developed. The early programs developed a basic structure for genealogy, and the standard ...
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Is Perfect GEDCOM Reading and Writing Necessary? - Blog entry by lkessler - 16 Oct 2023
My answers might surprise you. Reading Perfect GEDCOM In my previous article Reading GEDCOM – A Guide for Programmers, I outlined a general technique that a programmer of a genealogy program could use to read GEDCOM. Basically, the programmer should read each line in using the generalized definition of a ...
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Reading GEDCOM – A Guide for Programmers - Blog entry by lkessler - 12 Oct 2023
I’m back hard at work on Behold, trying to finish off the many features I’ll be including in Version 1.3 when it’s ready. Some of the changes for Version 1.3 made me take a look again at Behold’s GEDCOM import. Behold currently is a flexible GEDCOM reader. That is, it will accept almost anything that ...
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Update to Ancestry DNA’s Parental Matches - Blog entry by lkessler - 22 Aug 2023
Today, Ancestry sent me an email saying they updated the parent group assignments of my DNA matches: Ancestry calls this technology SideView, and I first wrote about it last December in my article Evaluating Ancestry DNA’s Parental Matches where I compared Ancestry’s assignments to other methods and ...
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Access Violation Error -- Won't Load GEDCOM Data - Forum post by lkessler in Report a Problem - 13 Jul 2023
Jimmy and I are now continuing this via email. For those that are interested, I suggestiedhe upload to my Google Drive account. I created a directory for him and shared it with him. That didn't work since it said he didn't have permission to upload. But he was able to upload to his Google Drive and I got it ...
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Behold Future Plans: No Editing - Forum post by lkessler in General Discussion - 12 Jul 2023
Klemens,
To finally respond to your thoughtful comment (wow - can't believe I missed it for this long), I too am disappointed that there is no genealogical word-processor-like editor that can edit people-based or source-based. I would have bought it and started using it as well.
When I started using MyHeritage ...
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Access Violation Error -- Won't Load GEDCOM Data - Forum post by lkessler in Report a Problem - 12 Jul 2023
Hi Jimmy,
I just now tried downloading my GEDCOM from Ancestry and the current version of Behold 1.2.7 loads it without problem. So there must be something in your newer Ancestry data that gets into your GEDCOM that is causing the problem.
Would you be willing to email me your GEDCOM and I'll see if the ...
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The End of GenSoftReviews - Blog entry by lkessler - 20 Jun 2023
Everything has its time. And the time for GenSoftReviews is up. GenSoftReviews is a site that was at www.gensoftreviews.com that I ran from 2008 until today, to allow users to come and review their genealogy software. They could rate the software from 1 to 5 stars and leave a textual review with a suggestion ...
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Is Updating the GEDCOM Standard Necessary? - Blog comment by lkessler - 23 Oct 2023