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probate... - Forum post by lkessler in Report a Problem - 21 Jul 2015
Colin,
The idea is that these messages are designed to point out "likely" problems. Things you'll want to check. They should not be wrong more than 5% of the time or they are too loose. If fewer than 5% of probates occurs after a year, then it is set at about the right level, because you may have a few of them ...
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What might be a temprary alternative to Behold - Forum post by lkessler in General Discussion - 20 Jul 2015
Colin,
Behold will give a message for unknown tags, but it will still accept them. So you don't have to change the tags for Behold.
In the version I'm working on, when Behold reads invalid tags, it will change them internally to start with the _ and then will export them to GEDCOM that way.
Louis
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probate... - Forum post by lkessler in Report a Problem - 20 Jul 2015
Colin,
To be honest, I never did specifically check the Probate tag before the 1.1 release. I did group it with the other after-death events and by default it gives that message for any after-death events a year or longer after the death.
How long would you say is a reasonable period after death for a probate ...
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Add version to behold-setup.exe - Forum post by lkessler in Feature Suggestions - 20 Jul 2015
Colin,
Thanks for the suggestion. The readme file that is included with the installation always starts with the current version number.
Zipping forces another step and some people don't know how to unzip. Whereas by being an executable, you don't even have to download it, but you can run it right from the web. ...
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Always Learning New Programming Concepts and Methods - Blog entry by lkessler - 20 Jul 2015
Most of the new concepts and tools for programming didn’t exist when I graduated from University with a Masters of Computer Science in 1980. The programming languages I worked with were FORTRAN, APL, PL/I and even Assembler. I picked up Pascal on the job and that led me to Turbo Pascal for personal use and ...
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I Know Where I’m Going, But … - Blog entry by lkessler - 17 Jul 2015
… But I don’t know what it’s going to be like when I get there. My adventure towards editing in Version 2 of Behold is a bit like the New Horizon’s mission to Pluto. They set off 9 years ago and knew where they were going. They knew how they’d get there. They even knew what they were going to do when ...
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Complete Genealogy Data Transfer - Blog comment by lkessler - 15 Jul 2015
Darren,
Oh I see now. You just want to make sure that the program actually loads the data into its database. The "make an edit" and "undo" is to ensure that.
I don't know if that's necessary. I can't really see how a program can load in an input file without loading it into its internal database. To ...
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Complete Genealogy Data Transfer - Blog comment by lkessler - 15 Jul 2015
Darren:
I suppose few programs would have any trouble adding one event and then deleting it, or deleting one event and then re-adding it. Even adding or deleting an individual, and then deleting or re-adding him should be straightforward as long as all the parent/child/spouse links are re-added as well. In ...
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Database Design for Genealogy Data - Blog entry by lkessler - 14 Jul 2015
There are several considerations as I structure the disk-based database for Behold. I want it to be capable of loading genealogy data from any source, I want it to be flexible, but most importantly I need it to handle the in-memory structures already in Behold. Let’s go through these considerations: Data ...
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What might be a temprary alternative to Behold - Forum post by lkessler in General Discussion - 21 Jul 2015