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My Heritage DNA scam - Forum post by smitty_455@hotmail.com in Questions and Answers - 13 May 2017
Purchased and completed swab test. Was obviously a scam. With a multitude of Scots and Irish names in my family the report said I was 100% north and western European. Then I discovered that a niece on my wife's side received the exact same report and we know that she had a gg that was native American. Have ...
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Dates and Sorting - Forum post by lkessler in General Discussion - 3 Jan 2017
There are other calendars as well, such as the Chinese or Hindu calendars. GEDCOM doesn't even address those.
What I think is most important is to make sure what people use and need the most works, and works well. Few people use other calendars in combination with Gregorian. If they do, they'll usually have a ...
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Dates and Sorting - Forum post by davej in General Discussion - 3 Jan 2017
Hi Louis,
In my humble opinion, genealogy software needs to strive to be able to accommodate whatever is possible in the physical world. In my own genealogical programming, I use that as the litmus test for what's really needed. It's certainly possible and was common for person's lives to span calendar ...
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Dates and Sorting - Forum post by davej in General Discussion - 27 Dec 2016
Hi Louis
I think the solution you propose is workable, but I wonder if there is a gotcha to be leery of: mainly concerning the conversion algorithm used to convert Julian to Gregorian.
Most Julian-to-Gregorian converters that I find on the web make no attempt to query the first-day-of-year preceding the date ...
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Dates and Sorting - Forum post by lkessler in General Discussion - 25 Dec 2016
Dave,
Yes, the month numbers can be reused.
And you're correct. This system will not sort correctly between calendars. I developed it mainly as a way to efficiently store GEDCOM dates in Behold, and figured out an easy way to also enable it to sort properly within a specific calendar.
For anyone else reading ...
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Dates and Sorting - Forum post by davej in General Discussion - 23 Dec 2016
I've been thinking about genealogical sorting algorithms for dates, thought I'd post some thoughts for your feedback.
Concerning the storing/sorting format eluded to in a previous blog post, CBYYYYMDD*AA, I see that months for the calendar systems supported by Behold are specified by the designations 1-C, D-O, ...
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Suppress Source Info - Forum post by lkessler in Questions and Answers - 7 Dec 2016
Michael,
The concept was that the Tags page in the Organize window allows you to select what GEDCOM tags would display or be hidden. So deselecting SOUR in theory should hide all the sources. I'm not sure how well that works any more because many years and versions have happened since the Tags page was ...
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Suppress Source Info - Forum post by michaelbnc in Questions and Answers - 7 Dec 2016
Is there anyway to suppress the printing of source information from a report?
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What might be a temprary alternative to Behold - Forum post by cp in General Discussion - 14 Aug 2015
Hi Louis,
Sorry for the delay - this was one of those threads that disappeared and I couldn't get back for few weeks.
So I've just downloaded the three files and tested them on FH5.0.9. Ascii and UTF-8 loaded fine (with a slew of 5.5.1 derived exceptions). The unicode file wouldn't load at all, but FH6 is now ...
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My Heritage DNA scam - Forum post by lkessler in Questions and Answers - 4 Jun 2017