Place Details

Genealogy programs subdivide place entries into 3 or 4 levels separated by commas, as in "City, County, State, Country". Behold uses whatever format was entered for places in the genealogy data, and reverses them according to the commas, and sorts the index that way.

 

Most programs do not have good tools to help you enter place names consistently. This is one of the many ways Behold can help you identify problems with your genealogy data. You can easily scan your place names to see which ones are not specified correctly. For now you have to fix them in the genealogy program you use for editing. When version 2.0 of Behold comes out, you'll be able to fix them by just typing the correction once in the Place List, and it will be immediately fixed for every entry given.

 

 

Events and facts are listed in order of the date they happened or strarted on, beginning with undated events and facts. The event or fact type is shown first, so that it can be picked out easily. This is the best format for research, since you can use it to thoroughly compare the information you have with a certain set of records, e.g. the marriage records for a town.

 

 

All the people associated with the event or fact that took place on the given date at the specified place are then listed. Their name is a hyperlink back to the information about them. Their age at the time of the event is shown (if determinable) as well as their length of marriage and spouse name (also if determinable).

 

The same details about the event/fact that are shown with the person's information is also shown here. It will include all notes, sources, objects as well as everything else associated with this particular event/fact at this place.