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So let’s see what’s happening: +1 Behold just received an Honourable Mention in the Best New Genealogy Product category of Tamura Jones’ GeneAwards 2012. +1 Just compiled the 19 programs receiving the GenSoftReviews Top Rated Genealogy Software awards for 2012. -1 My Dad’s 88 and not doing so well in ...

I’m not happy. It is unfortunate, but I feel I’ve dropped the ball this year with Behold, and let both users and myself down. It started off great, with Version 1.04 released in January after a flurry of activity that followed the 1.0 release just a couple of months earlier. For the next few months, I was ...

The Dec/Jan 2013 issue of Internet Genealogy magazine includes as its title article: “Genealogy Software Update – Six popular program reviewed”. Tony Bandy, a regular reviewer of genealogy software, provides mostly positive comments of all the programs in the mini-reviews in his 7 page article. The ...

The current release that I am working hard to get out will include two new major features: 1. Life Events, and 2. Consistency Checking. Consistency checking was one of the important things missing from Behold. I felt it was very necessary to have it prior to going further. Today’s article by Tamura Jones: ...

I just came across this: Michael Hait’s vision in his April 2, 2012 blog post. Well, let’s see how Behold is doing. The software would have two separate, but interconnected, modes: Evidence and Conclusion. Switching between the modes for data entry would have to be seamless, and there would have to be the ...

We got there! Even though it was only 58 days, it seemed like an eternity. But the Genealogy community showed its mettle and showed how much they want this Q&A site. First there there was the Definition phase where 40 sample questions were needed that would define the type of questions this site would ...

The Q&A site is 97% on its way to Beta. You’ve still got time to sign up and join in on the Beta before it starts if you hurry. Here’s some of the reasons the 256 committers to date have said they’re excited about the site:   Avid Enthusiasts and Prosumers (whatever that is) have said: "Great ...

Two weeks ago, I posted about a proposal to create a new Genealogy Question and Answer site. Today, the Definition Phase of the proposal was completed. Now the new site is in Commitment Phase and is looking for people willing to commit to use it. If you’d like to participate (like me), I encourage you to go ...

Where do you go now if you have a question about Genealogy? Is there one convenient place where you can ask a question and almost immediately get answers from people trying to help you? Before you read the rest of this post, if you feel you’d like to have such a site, then go right over to the Genealogy ...

I don’t know what they’re trying to prove, but for the last month or so, the Behold User Forum has been getting a spam attack. It started with a message every few days, slowly growing in number and frequency. Today I found six spam messages posted. I’ve been manually deleting the messages one by one, and ...