Louis Kessler’s Behold Blog     The Behold User Forum

Brett, Well, I can give excuses. :-( My father passed away in March. And I've had to put a lot of extra time in my day job for the past few weeks. That should be done in a week or two, and I should be able to get back to Behold again in earnest. I still hope to achieve most of my new years resolutions. I've ...

Brett, I think I had it earlier and may have taken out because of a possible misinterpretation by myself regarding "All controlled line_value choices should be considered as case insensitive". But rethinking, I believe that statement refers to line_values that are selections from a list of items. A date is a ...

Brett, Behold's GEDCOM validation does not currently validate to specific versions and does not understand the specific syntax of any particular version. It is also not comprehensive and won't find everything. Right now, it detects certain illegalities common to all versions, including some illegalities that ...

Tony, I liked Outlook Express when I used it, but it is now getting very old. Back in 2007, I switched from OE to Microsoft Mail when I went to Vista (the computer I just replaced). I'd suggest getting those emails out of OE while you still can - if you still can. I'm also not sure why my country detector ...

All good things take waaaaay too long.

Hi Herb, Thanks for the nice words, and your patience. I was sure Behold would work fine under a Windows emulator on the Mac, but I believe you are the first one to tell me that you are doing it. When I eventually port Behold to the Mac (unfortunately will be a while), I'll be doing the opposite and having a ...

The Lynn file is a real file with over 90,000 people in it. This size can often happen when people merge other people's research into theirs (something I don't recommend). However, you can also achieve such sizes by loading multiple GEDCOMs at once, as Behold allows (but few others do). Multiple files will play ...