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... as well as being on a panel discussing Sources where a few statements I said about source-based genealogy were to my surprise met with huge applause. Early 2013, I picked up my genealogy “tour” as a speaker on the 3rd Unlock the Past genealogy cruise where I met my Australia genie friends for the first time. During 2013, I continued work on Behold, and by the end of ...

... your genealogy computer files". This was partly a continuation of my first talk on source-based genealogy. Storing by source is not something that seems natural at first, and there were some comments disagreeing with it. But it is a real alternative that I use and I think many people should consider for themselves. "your goal is to know what you have" - ...

... 10 a.m., I gave my first of 8 talks. This one was "How to improve your research with source-based research". I took the rest of the afternoon off to get a sunburn by the pool, and came back at 4 p.m. for the bookshop and research help zone session. Dinner was followed by Shauna Hicks' story about her DNA research and the perils it threw upon her: Shauna Hicks ...

... on Friday February 26. I’ll be giving my talk on How to improve research with source-based genealogy. If you can make it to Melbourne that day and would like to join me there for lunch, I’d love to have you come. If you want to hear the talks, you can book a spot for yourself or pay at the door. We are leaving Winnipeg on February 10, so that precludes me from ...

... 8 talks that attendees should find interesting: 1. How to improve research with source-based genealogy 2. Using life events and ages to solve genealogy problems 3. Organizing your genealogy computer files … the better way to do it 4. A beginner's guide to Jewish genealogy 5. Names, events, dates and places aren't enough. Here's what you can and should ...

... task well and people liked it. The objective was to add editing to this and to allow source-based data entry and virtual merging. But then I got side-tracked from that vision. I spent a couple of years on a different path to make the report “better”. I expected it would be useful to incorporate all the person’s important family events into their own timeline. Their ...

... out his data structure he calls GREnDL. He attempts to do the correct thing and be source-based, so at the center of his model, he has the “Claim” record. There are others who have developed data structures with different ideas that I keep aware of, like Tony Proctor (STEMMA), and Tom Wetmore (DeadEnds). Flexibility Behold is a flexible GEDCOM reader. It ...

... is so that I can personally enter my own genealogy data in an efficient and organized source-based manner that I have long wanted to do. Unfortunately, none of the above things I’ve been doing have got me closer to that goal. So I have to admit, the criticisms on GenSoftReviews were correct. I’m not getting any closer. What this demands is a change of direction. Just ...