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Get the Core Right First - Blog entry by lkessler - 21 Jun 2012
I was surprised a couple of days ago to get an email from a Behold user in Prague, who told me that Behold wasn’t sorting the Czech letters correctly in its Name, Place and other indexes. I was a bit surprised by this as I thought that Windows was supposed to sort Unicode correctly, and the exact sorting ...
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Eliminating the Family - Blog entry by lkessler - 16 Jun 2012
One thing that I’ve done to Behold’s Everything Report as I add the life events, is a sneaky little restructuring of how the family group is presented. Up to now, I’ve been following the traditional genealogy software way of presenting families. You have the father, the mother, their children and the ...
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Whither GEDCOM X? - Blog comment by lkessler - 8 Jun 2012
Everyone makes lists of what's wrong with GEDCOM. There's never anything in those lists that couldn't be handled relatively easily with an updated GEDCOM. Ryan Heaton claims that GEDCOM X has resolved a lot of the deficiencies.
But have you seen any lists of what's right with GEDCOM? I've delved deeply into ...
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Whither GEDCOM X? - Blog comment by lkessler - 8 Jun 2012
Brett said: "... 'extras' could be accomodated through updates."
Absolutely! GEDCOM was excellent at the time. If they had not stopped updating it, we'd have a really fine standard today. I'm sure it would have everything everyone is looking for and data would be transferring almost flawlessly between ...
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Whither GEDCOM X? - Blog comment by lkessler - 8 Jun 2012
Sorry for going too far on the technical side.
Yes, the goal of everyone is to transfer their data seamlessly between programs which - new standard or not - is never going to happen. It's impossible to get a standard agreed on that is complete enough to include everything needed in an unambiguous way that ...
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Whither GEDCOM X? - Blog entry by lkessler - 7 Jun 2012
I’ve tweeted over the last few days of GEDCOM X’s announcements on its blog posts. I’ve followed its progress since Tamura Jones broke the news about it last December. I met Ryan Heaton, the employee of FamilySearch doing the most work on it, at RootsTech in February, and listened to his talks on the ...
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Random Jottings from the Last 3 Weeks - Blog entry by lkessler - 6 Jun 2012
I’ve not posted much on my blog recently, but that is not because I haven’t been doing anything. In fact I’ve been working very hard to find just the right way to get “Life Events” into Behold. I now realize this must be extended to grandparents, grandchildren, half-families and step-families. I made ...
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How Source Based Data Entry Should Work - Blog entry by lkessler - 14 May 2012
On BetterGEDCOM, I was asked the question how Behold would handle some simple source examples in a step-by-step manner. Rather than just answer on their forum, this is an important concept that I’d like to present here so that all Behold users (and others interested) can see what I’m planning. There are 6 ...
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Family Tree Maker’s Individual Timeline - Blog comment by lkessler - 9 May 2012
Brett:
I don't know what FTM thought. But they did put that feature in their 2008 version. So someone there thought it was a good idea.
It seems to be unchanged in the 2012 version. So if any users are suggesting improvements to the timeline, they are not being listened to.
Louis
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Whither GEDCOM X? - Blog comment by lkessler - 8 Jun 2012