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"For example, let’s say your grandfather died in 1980 and you know he was 80 years old. You’ve looked through all the 1900 records and can’t find his birth certificate anywhere. Maybe the solution is to look through the 1899 records as well." However, depending on Records, lodgement etc, it could be ...

Thanks for the clarification. I will add this to my GEDCOM wish list.

Am I able to input an AKA under Name, to include a date and place known as that individual, and retain GEDCOM standard? My GEDCOM is exported as: 1 NAME Caroline Juliette Edmonds 2 DATE 12 MAR 1891 2 PLAC Sydney, New South Wales, Australia however this flags as an error, Unknown record found, in vGed 3.04. It ...

Louis Does the GEDCOM character limit include the TAG? If no, would this be suitable for vs and date? VERS xx.x.x mm-dd-yy Brett

OK, so I did jump too early. I have validated through the above and also Genealogica Grafica and GenMatcher. I will report all errors in an email. In the meantime, the one error of most interest is: Invalid content for DATE tag: '28 APR 1997' is not a valid <DATE_VALUE> This does not error in Behold. ...

After several years, much assistance from Behold's great GEDCOM validation, advice from Louis and support from Darrin and the User Group of The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding (TNG), I now have a GEDCOM exported file which meets 5.5.1. What a pleasure it was to see 'No problems to report.' in the File ...

Format members Occasionally you do not know a complete date, such as: 13 (Date only known) 13 APR (Date and month only known) APR (Month only known). What/how do people code this in their software? Do they: Key it in the date field? Include it as a note? Some other option. Thanks Brett

Well, that did not go that well. Tried adding Name, no problem, but the software does not give oportunity to put type: 0 @I91@ INDI 1 NAME Ann /Guest/ 2 GIVN Ann 2 SURN Guest 1 NAME Letitia Holland Hmmm. Off to the developer I guess.

Thanks Louis. I will update my data by removing Alias and use Also Known As.

Louis Below is an error from the log file. Are you able to explain what is incorrect, so I can refer the export to the software developer. Extract from GEDCOM 1 BURI 2 DATE AFT 26 JUN 1826 2 PLAC Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia 1 ALIA Letitia Holland 1 NOTE State Records Authority NSW: 2 CONT 24 Oct ...