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While preparing my presentation of Reading Wrong GEDCOM Right for the Gaenovium Conference, I wanted to see if I had in my collection of over 600 test GEDCOM files some early GEDCOMs from the pre-GEDCOM 5.0 era. I searched my files for some of the pre-GEDCOM 5.0 tags outlined by Tamura Jones in his GEDCOM Tags ...

Lots going on in the technical genealogy world, and so much incorrect thinking in my opinion. The major online services are quietly going about their business: Ancestry, FamilySearch and MyHeritage (which now includes Geni) are the big three, but there are scores of others such as GeneaNet and WikiTree. ...

The official announcement is out. And I now can announce that I’ll be flying to the city of Leiden, Netherlands in early October. Gaenovium will be a small one day conference on October 7 for genealogy technology creators, so it will give me a wonderful opportunity to meet, share, discuss and argue with ...

This is starting to get ridiculous. I’ve spent the close to 2 years trying to design and implement all the complexities of 3 new features that I think will be really important to help you with your genealogical research, which I’ve called: Ages Everywhere, Life Events, and Who’s Alive at Events. The work ...

How many have you even heard of? Over at GenSoftReviews, where I maintain a website allowing users to rate and review their genealogy software, I’ve compiled a comprehensive list of the genealogy programs that is approaching 800. In the last month alone, I’ve found, or people have told me about 14 16 new ...

One thing I’ve tried to do with Behold is optimize its speed. I want it to load your GEDCOM and display the Everything Report for you as fast as possible. I’ve worked hard to do this and have made it a program that is notable for its loading speed. Every version prior to release, I check both the speed and ...

I’ve saved all my important emails since 2002. This is my 2nd or 3rd computer upgrade since then. The other times, I was able to transfer my email easily into the mail program on my new computer. But I ran into a slight glitch this time. My old computer was Windows Vista and my email program was Windows ...

Ready for an adventure? Anything that should be easy usually isn’t, especially when it comes to computers and hardware. A new computer is expected to result in a boost to productivity … but only after the dust settles. Why is there always so much dust? The first step is setting up the hardware. I thought it ...

11. When you’ve still got Windows Vista. 10. When your monitors are so old that one flashes for 30 seconds when it starts up and the other’s color doesn’t match. Yes, you could simply get new monitors if this is your only problem. 9. You can’t connect to your home network because every time you try to ...

I have been busy the past couple of years. Busy trying to assemble my thoughts about the genealogy software of today and the software for tomorrow. I’ve had my eyes open and I’ve been listening intently. The winds are changing somewhat and course corrections for all developers are required if they want to ...