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Louis When Behold can export to a GEDCOM file, what will it (given current standards) be to - 5.0, 5.5, 5.5.1??

Louis Wondering what Behold does with GEDCOM 5.5EL. See http://www.tamurajones.net/DetectingGEDCOM5.5EL.xhtml Also, Tamura states: The illegal VERS value invalidates the GEDCOM header and as a rule, GEDCOM readers should reject files that do not even contain a valid GEDCOM header. A forgiving GEDCOM reader that ...

Agreed. I am looking forward to a standard that will be supported, so I can exchange data with others, and others with me, with no loss or change.

That made me chuckle. I certainly can work while everyone else is asleep. And while others are awake also.

As an observer only, at this stage, it appears that BetterGEDCOM is stalled by the FHISO Project. What are your thoughts from Monday's Build a BetterGEDCOM meeting, which I would have liked to attend, but did not arise until 5am, so missed the start by an hour.

Again, thanks Louis. I had been doing it manually and then noticed this old post last night. It is not a problem as such, but would have made my corrections a little faster.

On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 you posted: However, Tamura's review has already led me to think I should reinstitute the logfile that was in versions of Behold up to 2 years ago. It integrates the log and the GEDCOM files together in a window which would allow clicking on an error message and taking you right to the line ...

Thanks for the clarification on dates.

Thanks Louis. To continue a little, do you consider BetterGEDCOM would be looking at incomplete dates as part of their charter? It seems to me that where some data is known, eg only day or month but no year, it needs to be kept in the GEDCOM, and within Behold, as you have stated above. However, if Behold will ...

Where sufficient data is not recorded eg only 13 APR, should the GEDCOM be produced containing or excluding the non valid data? Is it correct under GEDCOM standard to convert non valid dates to a date phrase? When 1.5 or 2.0 arrives, how do you think Behold will export date phrase to GEDCOM?