Louis Kessler’s Behold Blog     The Behold User Forum

Thanks Louis I am not in a rush, I was just wondering. I saw you busily working on "life events" into the individual profiles, on your future page. Keep up the good work.

How is Version 1.0.5, planned for February 2012 progressing Louis?

Don't worry Louis. Found it under Future Plans - valid GEDCOM 5.5.1, even from invalid input.

Louis When Behold can export to a GEDCOM file, what will it (given current standards) be to - 5.0, 5.5, 5.5.1??

Louis Wondering what Behold does with GEDCOM 5.5EL. See http://www.tamurajones.net/DetectingGEDCOM5.5EL.xhtml Also, Tamura states: The illegal VERS value invalidates the GEDCOM header and as a rule, GEDCOM readers should reject files that do not even contain a valid GEDCOM header. A forgiving GEDCOM reader that ...

Showing the age variation would certainly be an improvement on most progams, which show as: Birth: 1860 Death: June 1921 Age: ~ 61 years

Agreed. I am looking forward to a standard that will be supported, so I can exchange data with others, and others with me, with no loss or change.

That made me chuckle. I certainly can work while everyone else is asleep. And while others are awake also.

Louis I have recently sent the following to Tamura. Do you have any thoughts. **** Have we gone from 'No one cares any more' to 'too many peas in the pod'? Will there be acceptable discussion and compromise between parties? Will it end up with 2+ new GEDCOM versions, which software companies ...

As an observer only, at this stage, it appears that BetterGEDCOM is stalled by the FHISO Project. What are your thoughts from Monday's Build a BetterGEDCOM meeting, which I would have liked to attend, but did not arise until 5am, so missed the start by an hour.