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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 ...
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SQLite for Genealogy Software - Blog comment by lkessler - 24 Apr 2016
Thanks for your comments Keith.
Then I suppose you'll never use a tool like RootsMagic, because its database is open and someone might get the .rmgc file from your computer and read it. And you'll never make a GEDCOM of all your data and never send that data to anyone (at least not with your living people ...
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SQLite for Genealogy Software - Blog comment by lkessler - 7 May 2016