Louis Kessler’s Behold Blog     The Behold User Forum

... days later. Or you don't have the death but you have the burial. But once I add source-based data entry, that methodology won't be needed. Instead, when you get a new source, say a list of births in a place, you'll enter it as a new source along with all the events it contains that may be relevant to you. Then you'll link them up to the relevant people.

Excellent Arnold. Of course, Behold does not yet have the editing and the source-based editing option in it. I've still not finalized it yet, but my current thinking is to have a split screen showing you the source at the top or bottom, and your conclusions at the bottom or top. But you can see in Behold right now, in the sources section, how the sources are ...

... I'd say we're "diametrically opposite". The design of Behold is to eventually allow source-based data entry, which few programs do. I would not say I'm as interested in the "proof" side of it as I am in the documentation of where it came from. It may take two-steps: (1) get them to document their sources, and then (2) get them to prove their assertions. We're both ...

... data input finally comes, I'm sure that part will blow you and everyone else away. Source-based data entry on top of that should be just what's needed. I used slide rules, too. But I was much more blown away by my recent switch from from camera/cellphone combination to smartphone! Louis