Louis Kessler’s Behold Blog     The Behold User Forum

Hi Louis, thanks for getting the forum back up to speed! What I wanted to write was something like this... I haven't kept up with the development of Behold, since I've not been doing any serious genealogy for a long while. When checking the website to see if anything has happened, I found that on the "Future ...

Hi Louis, I'm also one who is patiently waiting for some news about Behold. The updates on DMT are interesting in theory, but not in reality for me, since I don't want to start with DNA genealogy. So I hope the DMT will reach a level soon where you can let it rest for a while, and take up work on Behold again ...

Source-based data entry is definitely the only way to go! Custodian looks very powerful, it may be too much for a smaller family history research. I'll install the demo. For power users, the traditional view of a big screen with many fields (and templates!) might be the best. But I've been thinking that a ...

Louis, thanks for checking. I can export Unicode GEDCOM from my program, so, for me, there is no need to hurry with a new version. Klemens

Hi Louis, currently, a group of German programmers are working to make their GEDCOM export and import more standard compliant and compatible to each other. They have not yet finished, but there is a GEDCOM test file that aims to use every tag that is defined in GEDCOM and every convention they have agreed on. ...

Hi Louis, I tried opening a GEDCOM file with umlauts in Behold 1.0.5.1. Instead of the umlauts, boxes were displayed. The file was UTF-8 with BOM. When I converted it to UTF-8 without BOM, everything was fine. Also, Unicode (UTF-16) was fine, too. Can you replicate this? Klemens