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They make you enter your data into forms and require you run reports to see (some of) your data. They are person-centric, rather than source-centric. They emphasize formatting your citations correctly, rather than documenting your sources correctly They promote merging other people's data with yours, ...

My last post complained about the RootsMagic 4 GEDCOMs I had found. I decided it was important to research this further, so I opened up RootsMagic 4 (I purchased a copy when it came out) and loaded the large 156 MB GEDCOM from RootsMagic 4 that I had with 322,798 people in it. It took Behold 33 seconds to load ...

About a week ago, I was sent a GEDCOM that Behold crashed on. Behold crashed on a PLAC tag with a value of: "<>" as the place. It was a small bug, easy to fix. But I noticed that this GEDCOM was from RootsMagic 4. Looking in my sample files, I only had one other RootsMagic 4 file, and I hadn't looked ...

Yesterday's post got me wondering how many genealogy programs passed the Windows 7 Logo Requirements and are allowed to show the Windows 7 Software Logo. When I search for Windows programs at GenSoftReviews, the site indicated that there are 337 Windows programs for genealogy. Microsoft allows vendors to add ...

I admit, I really do want that Logo saying "Compatible with Windows 7" for Behold. Why? Well for one thing, there are very few genealogy programs (are there any?) that have it. The reason is probably that most genealogy programs are older, use legacy code, and just have too many non-standard hooks in them, ...

I got a few emails asking me if I was planning to have a free version of Behold. Once version 2.0 comes out with editing, people would purchase Behold and use it to create and update their genealogy. Then they would send it to relatives, but their relatives would not be able to view it because they did not have ...

In preparation for Version 1.0, I am updating the Behold website to make sure all pages are up to date. When I got to the For You page, I added and moved around a few of the Behold benefits. But the one I needed to add was: "19. Evidence/Conclusion Modelling". I summarize it as: Problem: Your current ...

I've had several people ask me questions on what error checking Behold can do. I would group errors into 4 camps: Non-Standard: There may be something wrong with your GEDCOM file that does not follow the GEDCOM standard. Behold deals with what I call "extended GEDCOM", and can handle all the extensions ...

It took about 3 months, but the User Guide (i.e. help file) for Behold is finally completed. There are 136 topics, 1,986 local links, 285 Internet links, 665 Graphics, and the chm help file has grown to 7,761,834 bytes in size, over 3 times what it was three months ago. The Behold User Guide is also available ...

You'd think making a User Guide would be easy. But there's a bit more involved than just writing text. I was lucky enough to be starting with a partially done User's Guide that had already included the Welcome section and a fairly comprehsive Tutorial section. All that was left was to update these sections ...