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I've added a few features I think are important to Behold that will be out in the next release. In so doing, and talking about them on this blog, I received a few emails from some people already using Behold. They said that the new features sound great, but they'd really like me to get version 1.0 out and ...

This is another feature I personally knew I needed, and wanted to get into Behold before the next release. Behold has a number of "Detail" sections that are generated for you at the end of the Everything Report. This can include Place Details, Note Details, Repository Details, Source Details, as well ...

There are hundreds of genealogy programs and almost all of them use GEDCOM to for importing and exporting their data. GEDCOM (which stands for GEnealogical Data COMmunications) was developed near the beginning of time and the last revision (5.5.1) was drafted about 15 years ago. It provides a data definition to ...

Part of my delay over the last month was due to my thinking that I had to make a database change. I wanted all individual references of the same type to be grouped together. What that means is, for example, lets say you found your grandparents' wedding invitation list. You have 60 people invited to the ...

As you may have noticed, there has not been much happening on this blog in the last month, and the last Beta of Behold was released onSeptember 6. I haven't vanished. I've been here and working hard (other than a week's vacation) and ran into my recursive link roadblock again. If you search this blog for the ...

It's always nice to get recognition. So when I received the following email, I was at first surprised and pleased: Dear Louis, Congratulations! Jean here, and your blog, Louis Kessler's Behold Blog, was determined to be an essential part of our resources, and has received our Top Genealogy Blogs award ...

Just about the most important aspect of any genealogy program - actually any computer program at all - is the user interface. The tools and commands that the interface provides must make the program seem familiar, its features be obvious, and its capabilities be discoverable. Windows users get used to ...

In the very beginning, I decided that "Behold" should be the name of my genealogy program. It gives the right connotation ("Look here and let all your data unfold") in an almost biblical manner, it is rememberable, it's short, and it's a non-copyrightable real word, so I don't have to be worried about getting ...

For about a week, I had been sending out emails with a question mark at the beginning. So I would type:  “Hello John,” and in the email sent, it would appear as “?Hello John,”. That not only looked dumb, but also made me feel like a moron after I found out they went out that way. The problem was ...

As I work through some of my test files, I came across some files that were in my "to handle one day" folder. These were created by some older versions of Family Tree Maker for Windows (FTW) that created something that looks similar to GEDCOM, but instead of the nice short tags GEDCOM has, it uses its own long ...