Louis Kessler’s Behold Blog     The Behold User Forum

I am a user and, I have trusted that the big companies would follow the GEDCOM standard to a "Tee". However your research has enlightened me and, I am really pissed about this. You see I have been exporting gedcoms and re-importing them into other programs thinking all is well. Thank you Louis for educating me ...

Amen on Number #5 !!! Why in the hell don't they follow this wonderful standard!?!

When they merge data they often corrupt the database. Merging is very dangerous and, I've learned after repeated attempts to manually enter everything. Virtual merging would be cool!

I would be interested to see your "Top Ten List of best GedCom Programs" that rate genealogy programs from best to worst on how they follow the standard. Also, I will be very interested in your future program that makes "invalid" gedcoms valid. I don't trust any of the genealogy programs nowdays since they all ...

Congratulation Louis on the first release of your program! Based on your beta program it has been a long endeavor of yours and you persisted and saw the project thru. Based on your clear, spot-on views about the GedCom standard and the bastardization of its implementation by large companies, I will give Behold ...