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Family Tree Maker’s Individual Timeline - Blog entry by lkessler - 7 May 2012
In DearMyrtle’s blog: Myrt learns about FTM 2012 from her cousin, includes a webinar in which her cousin Russ Worthington introduced FTM to her. What particularly caught my attention was his mention of an interesting feature in FTM 2012 (or any version since 2008) that I didn’t know about: An individual’s ...
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Smart Genealogy Software vs Dumb Genealogy Software - Blog entry by lkessler - 24 Apr 2012
Almost all genealogy software is dumb. That’s D-U-M-B, dumb! They accept all your data and then regurgitate it back to you unthinkingly. Junk in, junk out. Good stuff in, good stuff … well out, yes – but presented dumb-ly. There is nothing wrong with dumb genealogy software, as long as you expect nothing ...
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Date validation - case sensitive - Forum post by lkessler in Report a Problem - 13 Apr 2012
I think it simply means comparing for the purpose of interpreting its value.
For a DATE value, I don't just compare the month-part to JAN, FEB, MAR,..., but I compare the uppercased value of the month-part to JAN, FEB, MAR,...
For a TYPE value, I don't just compare the value to STILLBORN, but I compare the ...
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Date validation - case sensitive - Forum post by lkessler in Report a Problem - 13 Apr 2012
Brett,
See my blog post: How To Get A Developer To Fix A Bug.
No, Tamura's correct. The statement: "values should be converted to all uppercase or all lowercase prior to comparing" means that aPR and aPr should be both changed to APR (if uppercase is used for comparison) or to apr (if lowercase is used for ...
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How To Get A Developer To Fix A Bug - Blog entry by lkessler - 13 Apr 2012
Doing so is easy. Just 3 steps. Tell the developer about it. If they don’t know about it, they won’t fix it. Get the developer to realize it’s a bug. This sometimes is very difficult. Most developers are stubborn, defensive, sure they’re right, and often quite belligerent in their beliefs. Keep ...
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Version 1.0.5 (Life Events, Age at Events, Date Consistency Checking) - Forum post by lkessler in Questions and Answers - 9 Apr 2012
Brett:
Actually, no.
The log file is associated with the GEDCOM file that is input. If you input 3 GEDCOMs into Behold at once, then 3 log files are produced. It is designed to tell you what import problems happen from the GEDCOM file.
Once Behold has its own data file format, you will be reading from a .bhp ...
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Life Events – Family Information You Can Really Use! - Blog comment by lkessler - 5 Apr 2012
Herb:
Mac's are in the plans. See my post from September: I Purchased Delphi XE2 Today.
And I've now updated my Future Plans page and for now have placed Macs (and other platforms) as Version 2.1
Louis
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Ages are Weird - Blog comment by lkessler - 4 Apr 2012
Brett,
Yes, of course you're correct and a 1900 birth could be in the 1901 records.
So I should have been more precise and instead of "looked through all 1900 records", I should have said: "looked through all records containing a birth in 1900".
Louis
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Life Events – Family Information You Can Really Use! - Blog entry by lkessler - 4 Apr 2012
A few posts ago, I blogged about Family Group Sheets – Why and Wherefore? There I talked about how genealogists tend to use Family Group Sheets to organize and maintain their data, and how genealogy software programs have come to mimic that format. Behold has also been following the general idea of the Family ...
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Date validation - case sensitive - Forum post by lkessler in Report a Problem - 14 Apr 2012