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Oh BTW, something's weird in the registration. Tony appears to be from Italy, and I'm from Poland. :-)

About #4: In an international environment, which is what the FHISO says to address, citation elements MUST be standardized, just like the existing GEDCOM tags. As native English speakers, you both seem to forget about that, but IMO it is essential for a standard to work. Like the fixed column names in a ...

I agree with some of your main points here Louis. In particular: 'data is not formatting' and 'templates are not part of the data'. However, my approach is significantly different in places too. I have a half-finished article I will eventually publish as part of the STEMMA documentation, but in summary: 1) ...

I'm trying to convert my father-in-law's family research from Amstrad PCW to PC. After writing a gedcom file from PAF(the amstrad still works) and overcoming the problems of reading a CPM floppy in a PC, I tried to import the file into PAF 5.2 and Family Historian 5 which my father in law had bought in the ...

Louis, One must always be careful when having a 'rant', or criticising what may outwardly appear to be lengthy periods of inactivity: 1. FHISO - Length of time with no outward appearance of activity (from the lack of website updates) = 14 months 2. Behold - Length of time since last software update = 15 ...

The timing of the comments about FHISO was unfortunate. We were in the final stages of preparing to announce the start of technical work, and you can now see that announcement on the FHISO website, http://fhiso.org/. It's regrettable that it took so long to reach this stage, but there were mitigating ...

Only a rant with regard to FHISO...and I've had the same feelings, but not brave enough to write them publicly. Thanks for all of the thoughts, good ones. Cheers -- Randy