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My daughters got back last week from a trip they went on together. In the evening, on the last day of the trip, one of my daughters was looking at the 500 or so pictures she had taken during the trip and … “Memory card error”. Panic set in. I tried to reassure her over the phone that we could still ...

This version includes several changes and fixes, especially to ensure the proper input of large (> 32MB) GEDCOM files. For a complete list of changes this release, see the Behold History page. Next on tap will be getting those darned recursive links finally implemented properly. I've finally figured out ...

A new version is out. Lots of fixes and small but necessary improvements that won't be easy to find unless you know where to look. But somehow everything will feel a little smoother and the report be better. Go to the Behold History page for a complete listing of the changes. This beta took a couple of weeks ...

Thomas MacEntee at GeneaBloggers maintains a list of Genealogy Blogs, currently with over 1,100 blogs in it including my Behold blog. He proposed a meme. Until today, I hadn't ever heard of the word "meme" and I still don't really know what it is. None-the-less, Thomas suggested that we genealogy bloggers ...

I haven't blogged in a while. That's because I've been busy working on Behold. I could have blogged a dozen times already, since I've made a dozen important improvements, but I hadn't simply because I was excited to get onto the next one. Originally, my main task was to handle recursive links properly. I ...

I've been using StackOverflow for almost a year and a half. It's a tremendous tool for me as a programmer. Whenever I have a programming problem that I can't find a simple solution to myself or via a 10 minute Google search, I post my question there, and other programmers step up to answer my question. Then ...

Genealogy is not only a wonderful hobby that anyone can do that gives you a personal knowledge of your roots, but it is also a social hobby that requires that you meet and talk to your relatives and others who may have information. And it is a fascinating ever-growing detective mystery that you’ll never ...

I've finally got the Behold Newsletter out. After almost three years of dormancy, my system was finally ready to send something out to all the Buyers and Tryers of Behold. I'm hoping to send out something once a month or so. The content will depend on what is relevant at the time, but I'll try to make it ...

Only two releases later, and this one I'm VERY pleased with. See the Behold History page for a list of the changes. All outstanding problems I know of are fixed, and this beta version is the first that I can say that it finally produces as good (if not better) an Everything Report as did the last alpha ...

Behold is again getting to the point where most of the bugs in it are fairly obscure. The average person using Behold with their average GEDCOM file should find mostly everything working right. If they look closely, there might be what I'd call "obscure" bugs - special cases of GEDCOM being handled a bit oddly ...