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Hi Louis, Sorry for the delay - this was one of those threads that disappeared and I couldn't get back for few weeks. So I've just downloaded the three files and tested them on FH5.0.9. Ascii and UTF-8 loaded fine (with a slew of 5.5.1 derived exceptions). The unicode file wouldn't load at all, but FH6 is now ...

I'll test - would be good to know. Do you have a test 5.5.1 file to hand? The two that come with Behold are olde stylee and customised for PAF and Legacy.

Yep, that all sounds good Louis!

Hi Louis Yep, Behold will do it right. I was more concerned with having a 'correct' gedcom now, and adding the underscore myself was a simple step to 'regularise' it. If it created problems in FH then I wouldn't bother. Will Behold will offer the choice of gedcom 5.5 or 5.5.1? I don't know if FH will accept ...

Hi Louis - thanks for your thoughts. Most probates are certainly within a year, but... Probate is one of those things (especially if there is a second one) that can occur many many years after the event. Doing a straw poll in just my 'to hand' records, I've got 1) died 1854, probate 1865; 2) died 1873, probate ...

Hi Louis Very impressed with the new version so far! Worth the wait! One little wrinkle (rather than bug) is in how probate is being handled (you may think I've got a fixation with probate as it was me who suggested in March 2012 that it usually came after death :) ). Anyway this is a typical message I'm ...

How about having the plain behold-setup.exe zipped into a file with the version? When you unzip, it general creates an outer folder with the version and the file within is as as virgin as you intend. Some people are nervous of downloading exposed 'exe' files anyway!

Hi Louis and Arnold I've been using Family Historian heavily (pending Behold!) and with one small caveat* it's gedcoms are accepted by Behold without any errors or cautions. FH uses Gedcom as its file system so there is no conversion to think of. Cheers, Colin * FH allows you to create custom events and ...

I noticed your recent blog post regarding correct ordering of dates (eg burial after death - which behold does correctly out of the box). Can I note that probate also must happen after death (and almost always after burial/cremation - I can only think of very esoteric reasons that would invert that!). Behold, ...