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Brett: Don't jump for joy just yet. Behold won't do complete GEDCOM checking until Version 1.5 and right now it lets a few things go. You should also try a couple of other validators: VGedX at http://ancestorsnow.com/tools/vgedx.php and GED-inline at http://ged-inline.elasticbeanstalk.com/validate I wouldn't ...

Brett: It depends on the program and what it lets you do. If programs allow date phrases, which are dates in any format whatsoever, then that would be fine. A date phrase in GEDCOM is any expression enclosed in parenthesis, e.g.: 2 DATE (April 13) If that is not allowed in your program, I'd just add it as a ...

Brett: The way you did it (with a second NAME tag and no TYPE tag) is also an accepted way of entering two alternative names. The TYPE tag with "aka" is preferred but not required. When more than one NAME tag is given, GEDCOM instructs programs to use the first one as the "preferred" name. Louis

Brett, The short answer is to replace: 1 ALIA Letitia Holland with 1 NAME Letitia /Holland/ 2 TYPE aka The long answer is a blog post your question prompted me to post: The ALIA Tag of GEDCOM Louis

Brett: I've been working hard to see if I could squeeze what I would call "life events" into the individual profiles. I wrote about it in my Endless Possibilities blog post, where I said: I might want to also expand the parent links, child links, and spouse links within the individuals and families and turn ...

meliasz: You'll be able to store whatever dates you want. If the person's death date is input as 100 years before their birth date, then so be it - but Behold will by default show the warning to remind you, so you won't forget to fix it later. Louis

Brett: I included support for GEDCOM 5.5EL in Version 1.0.1. The info in the _LOC records is merged into Behold's Place details. Behold already had support for the _WITN tag and Behold's method of handling the ASSO and TYPE tags will handle them. The Find Files window will also identify GEDCOM 5.5EL files. I ...

Tim: (Sorry about the primitive markup allowed in my comments.) Then you are not translating that back into HTML tags and then the person will see the HTML and tags and not what was intended to be rendered. I think that is correct. Notes were never intended in GEDCOM to include markup, and I agree and ...