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Jill Ball proposed another meme for genealogy bloggers for them to share the how and why they do their genealogy blogging. I enjoy a good meme. They are fun to do and interesting. I’ve done a couple of genealogy memes before: What I Do – in July 2010 proposed by Thomas MacEntee, and My Tech-Savvy ...

It happens to me every so often. The papers and things to do and things to file start piling up on my desk. I attempt every so often to organize them and they end up on the floor in piles. The piles get kicked over or thrown into the closet to be put away later. My binders of reference material need be be ...

In October, an Australian publishing company, Citrus Media, will be publishing Australia’s first ever glossy genealogy guide. This will be a 100 page magazine aimed at beginners and Australians, as a resource to help them begin their ancestry journey with advice on software, research resources, real life ...

You can hear rumblings from the GEDCOM volcano of genealogy bloggers. On August 1, James Tanner wrote Sharing Data Files or What Happened to GEDCOM? He says most genealogists are not aware there is a file compatibility issue until they are personally faced with the problem. Dear Myrtle wrote Genealogy data ...

I’ve talked in the past about how I plan when I add editing, to make Behold one of the first genealogy programs to allow you to enter your sources directly, without the need to hook them up to the events that are attached to people. You’ll be able to add your conclusions from these sources at a later time. ...

A few weeks go by with no blog post, so it’s time to update. Haven’t worked on Behold in the past few weeks. The main reason is that I was writing an 8 page “Genealogy Software Reviews” article for the Australian publisher Citrus Media who in August will be publishing Family Tree Magazine, a 100 page ...

The RootsTech 2014 Call for Presentations is now accepting presentation proposals until July 8. From those proposals, speakers will be selected to present at RootsTech 2014 from February 6-8 in Salt Lake City. I really enjoyed RootsTech 2012 when I went. They did not accept me as a speaker for that, but I was ...

You may have noted my thinking that source-based data entry is the best way to enter your genealogy data … even though there are few if any programs that currently support doing it that way. What I have also believed and may have posted elsewhere, but have never blogged about until now, is that you should ...

Note: This article has been submitted to FHISO’s Call For Papers as CFPS 78. Contents Abstract Introduction 1 Separation of Sources from Conclusions 2 Citations and Formatting should NOT be part of the Standard 3 Places must be a Top Level Record 4 Treat Events and Facts the same 5 The Data Model ...

I made a few small fixes to version 1.0.5 that I released a few days ago. Most of you won’t notice anything different. Note that if you already installed version 1.0.5 and use “Check Online for New Version” on the File Menu, it will not find version 1.0.5.1. That is unfortunately a remnant from the beta ...