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From Ancient GEDCOM to Prehistoric GEDCOM - Blog entry by lkessler - 17 Aug 2014
A few hours ago, I posted an article wondering if I may have found the world’s oldest GEDCOM file. Tamura Jones in response emailed me one that he thought may be older. Instead of beginning with a 0 HEAD record as all GEDCOMs do, this file begins with a 0HH record (no space between the 0 and the HH). It ...
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The World’s Oldest GEDCOM File? - Blog entry by lkessler - 17 Aug 2014
While preparing my presentation of Reading Wrong GEDCOM Right for the Gaenovium Conference, I wanted to see if I had in my collection of over 600 test GEDCOM files some early GEDCOMs from the pre-GEDCOM 5.0 era. I searched my files for some of the pre-GEDCOM 5.0 tags outlined by Tamura Jones in his GEDCOM Tags ...
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Genealogy Technology – Random Thoughts - Blog entry by lkessler - 13 Aug 2014
Lots going on in the technical genealogy world, and so much incorrect thinking in my opinion. The major online services are quietly going about their business: Ancestry, FamilySearch and MyHeritage (which now includes Geni) are the big three, but there are scores of others such as GeneaNet and WikiTree. ...
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Off To Gaenovium - Blog entry by lkessler - 24 Jul 2014
The official announcement is out. And I now can announce that I’ll be flying to the city of Leiden, Netherlands in early October. Gaenovium will be a small one day conference on October 7 for genealogy technology creators, so it will give me a wonderful opportunity to meet, share, discuss and argue with ...
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Line length restriction - Forum post by lkessler in Questions and Answers - 1 Jul 2014
Lines longer than 255 characters are illegal in GEDCOM. So yes, it is incorrect. Programs should not export lines longer than 255 characters.
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Line length restriction - Forum post by lkessler in Questions and Answers - 30 Jun 2014
Brett,
It will convert into a "2 SOUR" line followed by as many "3 CONC" lines as are required.
Louis
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Date phrase adding parenthesis - Forum post by lkessler in Report a Problem - 30 Jun 2014
Brett,
I don't think I have that in my datetest.ged file that I use for testing dates.
Since you've got interested in Behold's date checking again, would you mind doing me a favor. Take a look at my "Sort of a Date" blog post: http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/blog/?p=891
In there you'll find a link to my ...
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Date validation - case sensitive - Forum post by lkessler in Report a Problem - 30 Jun 2014
Subsequent thinking on this makes me now believe that GEDCOM intended that only LINE_VALUEs that are an enumerated list of choices were to be allowed to be mixed upper and lower case.
A DATE_VALUE is a line value. But it is not made up of an enumerated list of choices. It is made up of a substructure, with ...
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How To Get A Developer To Fix A Bug - Blog comment by lkessler - 30 Jun 2014
Brett:
Regarding this issue, also see our conversation in the Behold Forum we had about two years ago:
http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=132
I now believe the "any case allowed" only pertains in GEDCOM to selections from a set of "standardized or controlled line_value choices", which is ...
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Date validation - case sensitive - Forum post by lkessler in Report a Problem - 1 Jul 2014