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OGS 2016 Conference Blog Compendium - Blog entry by lkessler - 5 Jun 2016
#OGS2016Toronto – These are all the blogs I know of that have posts about the superb conference I just attended in Toronto. I’m only including blogger posts, not the official conference site posts. If there are any I’m missing, please let me know and I’ll update this list. Updated to include posts to ...
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26 Hours in Toronto–The OGS 2016 Conference - Blog entry by lkessler - 5 Jun 2016
Wow! #OGS2016Toronto - What an experience! This was a superb conference. My time there was so chock full that I barely had time to breathe. I met and talked to so many people, but even so, there were so many more I would have liked to talk to. I only made plans a couple of months ago to go to the Ontario ...
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Behold’s Genetic Relationship Notation (BGRN) - Blog entry by lkessler - 22 May 2016
Update: August 12, 2018: This notation has been revised.
See my blog post: BGRN Revised.
I’m leaving this older post here for historical context.
Yeah, I know. BGRN is a horrible acronym. So if you can get to the end of this post and can think of a better thing to call it, I’ll ...
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DNA or Bust - Blog entry by lkessler - 7 May 2016
It was Judy Russell @legalgen on our recent Unlock the Past Genealogy cruise who implored me to get my 93 year old uncle DNA tested while I still can. Judy made me realize that it was necessary. I have always understood the importance of DNA research as a valuable science to help discover relationships that ...
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OGS Conference, Sunday June 5, Toronto, Ontario - Blog entry by lkessler - 7 May 2016
@OGSConference. I had noticed that the Ontario Genealogical Society was holding their annual Conference in June. The Sunday program had several speakers I really wanted to hear. Lara Diamond will be talking on “Movement Between Towns in Eastern Europe” and “Jewish Genealogical Research in Ukraine”, and ...
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Unexpected BNF - Blog comment by lkessler - 3 May 2016
Oh no! I didn't realize that Tim had discontinued VGedX. But it's much worse. When I went to check his site, I now see that Tim shut down completely last month. Not just VGedX, but his entire GigaTrees site and all his other great utilities including Vivify, Bonkers, CENtar, G-List, Splatter, Stat Range, The ...
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Unexpected BNF - Blog entry by lkessler - 2 May 2016
Just before I released the last version of Behold a month ago, a user asked if there was a way to display all the burials and nothing else. They wanted to check out all the cemeteries in a city they were going to. I thought Behold could do that already. In the Organize Tags page, I allow selection of which ...
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SQLite for Genealogy Software - Blog comment by lkessler - 25 Apr 2016
That's funny. I notice I have Family Book Creator in GenSoftReviews, and even wrote in its description that it is a plugin for FTM. And I did read Tamura's article, but obviously I didn't register that FTM had a plugin capability. So much of the article was about Ancestry that I must have been thinking ...
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SQLite for Genealogy Software - Blog comment by lkessler - 25 Apr 2016
Keith:
Thinking about this further, I've come to realize that thinking that the encryption of the SQLite database makes your data secure is quite inaccurate. In fact, anyone can read a Family Tree Maker database file by simply copying it to their own machine and opening it up in their own version of Family ...
SQLite for Genealogy Software - Blog comment by lkessler - 7 May 2016