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Is Updating the GEDCOM Standard Necessary? - Blog entry by lkessler - 22 Oct 2023
The GEDCOM Standard was first developed almost 40 years ago as a way to store genealogical data and transfer it between programs. It was developed about the same time the first genealogical software programs were developed. The early programs developed a basic structure for genealogy, and the standard ...
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Is Perfect GEDCOM Reading and Writing Necessary? - Blog entry by lkessler - 16 Oct 2023
My answers might surprise you. Reading Perfect GEDCOM In my previous article Reading GEDCOM – A Guide for Programmers, I outlined a general technique that a programmer of a genealogy program could use to read GEDCOM. Basically, the programmer should read each line in using the generalized definition of a ...
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Reading GEDCOM – A Guide for Programmers - Blog entry by lkessler - 12 Oct 2023
I’m back hard at work on Behold, trying to finish off the many features I’ll be including in Version 1.3 when it’s ready. Some of the changes for Version 1.3 made me take a look again at Behold’s GEDCOM import. Behold currently is a flexible GEDCOM reader. That is, it will accept almost anything that ...
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Update to Ancestry DNA’s Parental Matches - Blog entry by lkessler - 22 Aug 2023
Today, Ancestry sent me an email saying they updated the parent group assignments of my DNA matches: Ancestry calls this technology SideView, and I first wrote about it last December in my article Evaluating Ancestry DNA’s Parental Matches where I compared Ancestry’s assignments to other methods and ...
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Behold Future Plans: No Editing - Forum post by lkessler in General Discussion - 12 Jul 2023
Klemens,
To finally respond to your thoughtful comment (wow - can't believe I missed it for this long), I too am disappointed that there is no genealogical word-processor-like editor that can edit people-based or source-based. I would have bought it and started using it as well.
When I started using MyHeritage ...
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Access Violation Error -- Won't Load GEDCOM Data - Forum post by lkessler in Report a Problem - 12 Jul 2023
Hi Jimmy,
I just now tried downloading my GEDCOM from Ancestry and the current version of Behold 1.2.7 loads it without problem. So there must be something in your newer Ancestry data that gets into your GEDCOM that is causing the problem.
Would you be willing to email me your GEDCOM and I'll see if the ...
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The End of GenSoftReviews - Blog entry by lkessler - 20 Jun 2023
Everything has its time. And the time for GenSoftReviews is up. GenSoftReviews is a site that was at www.gensoftreviews.com that I ran from 2008 until today, to allow users to come and review their genealogy software. They could rate the software from 1 to 5 stars and leave a textual review with a suggestion ...
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Ancestral Loops - Blog comment by lkessler - 8 Jun 2023
jandrea: Well it is a recursive procedure. The problem is that if you have loops, then the recursive procedure is infinite. So you have to figure out how to stop. The normal stopping method in a recursive procedure is to mark a node (person) as "visited" once they've been checked so that you don't process them ...
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Scanning 4 Binders of Emails - Blog entry by lkessler - 19 Mar 2023
Part of the work of genealogists in this digital age is to scan their old physical material. I’ve got many boxes in the closet and basement as well as binders in my shelves that still need to be gone through and digitized. You can only do this one piece at a time, so it’s a manner of picking a project and ...
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Access Violation Error -- Won't Load GEDCOM Data - Forum post by lkessler in Report a Problem - 13 Jul 2023