The Behold Discussion Forum

RE: New website look

lkessler

Posted by lkessler on 11 Dec 2007 7:55 PM in Behold Blog Comments

Thanks.

Yes, I mentioned to the designer that the smaller text may cause problems to people like you and me. :-)

Originally, it was designed with that font as a fixed size. But I've changed it to variable so at least you can change your font size if you need to. But I think I will increase the default size just a touch.

Louis

New website look

brknhrt

Posted by brknhrt on 10 Dec 2007 7:02 PM in Behold Blog Comments

New site looks good, very professional. One thing, bigger print for us old people:)

RE: Behold and Vista

lkessler

Posted by lkessler on 11 Sep 2007 8:34 AM in General Discussion

Thank you, Jennifer, for the verification. I did test it on my wife's laptop a few months ago (documented in my blog) and made a few changes to try to ensure it would install okay under Vista. The biggest change was redoing the help file in CHM (Compiled Html Help).

I had hoped at that time to include everything needed to get Microsoft's "Certified for Windows Vista" logo, but there were several roadblocks to that. Now I'm going to wait at least until after Version 1.0 when I upgrade to the latest version of Delphi.

Louis

RE: Adoptions and Blended Families

lkessler

Posted by lkessler on 11 Sep 2007 8:28 AM in Questions and Answers

Hello Jennifer,

I had designed Behold to understand multiple sets of parents. Children should show up under both their biological and adopted parents.

Now saying that, I've made a lot of changes to Behold since I had first programmed and tested this ability. If it doesn't work it's a bug. For the next version, I do have an entry in my Future Plans to "Make sure Behold displays multiple parents appropriately".

I only have one user test file that includes adoptions. It could be that your GEDCOM has a different arrangement of adoptions that Behold does not handle correctly. If you don't mind sending me a copy of your GEDCOM, I'd be happy to use it to fully test its handling of adoptions. I would keep your GEDCOM private and only use it for testing.

Louis

Adoptions and Blended Families

Jacksbox4you

Posted by Jacksbox4you on 11 Sep 2007 12:38 AM in Questions and Answers

I was wondering how Behold is set up to work with adoptions and blended families. I have some ancestors from the 1700's who were married more than once having children with each spouse and then the children were adopted/blended into one family. I noticed on my file, that one of these families showed that a child was a member of one of the families (he died shortly after birth). This child had a younger brother who does not show up under the biological dad, but does show up under the adopted father. Is there a way for this child to show up under both the biological and adopted parent?

Thank you.
Jennifer

Behold and Vista

Jacksbox4you

Posted by Jacksbox4you on 11 Sep 2007 12:23 AM in General Discussion

I just wanted to let you know that I upgraded my computer to the Vista Operating system and the new Behold alpha version installed flawlessly and works great. Thanks for all your hard work Louis!

RE: Corresponding Links

lkessler

Posted by lkessler on 7 Sep 2007 4:58 PM in Feature Suggestions

You're right. It's not just multiple marriages.

What is now programmed is that bookmarks are placed only where ID numbers were assigned. Because of that, the husband and wife both have the same bookmark, which is at the line preceeding the first of the two.

For most people, it is not too noticeable, because usually you can see both the husband and wife on the screen at the same time. But in your file, you have a lot of information about every person. So often you only see the first person on the page. When the link was from the second person, it seems like you've gone to the wrong place.

I agree with you that this is the wrong action. I'm going to add additional bookmarks for each spouse and for the family information as well. Then the link will take you to the correct place. I'll make that change for the next version. It will then work for both direct links and for the backward/forward buttons.

Louis

RE: Corresponding Links

sjm1010

Posted by sjm1010 on 6 Sep 2007 8:19 PM in Feature Suggestions

Hi Louis,

I also use the back arrow but it has the same results, it returns you to the husbands information. You mentioned multible marriages but it does the same thing on single marriages also. Thanks for taking a look.

RE: Corresponding Links

lkessler

Posted by lkessler on 6 Sep 2007 7:26 PM in Feature Suggestions

What you describe does appear to be a problem in the way I determine the link back. I used a bit of a trick to generate the link back and didn't take into account that there may be multiple marriages. So I'll see if I can fix that.

But an easier way to go back to where you were is to use the blue left arrow on the toolbar. It also has a keyboard shortcut of Alt-leftarrow, so you can very easily go back and forward without having to find the reverse link in the report.

Louis

Corresponding Links

sjm1010

Posted by sjm1010 on 5 Sep 2007 8:11 PM in Feature Suggestions

Louis,

Okay, this might have been covered already and I was just too lazy to look for it. Say you�re steering at your GGGrandmothers �EVENT DATA� and you decide to click on any of her city & state links. This sends you right to "PLACE DETAILS" and the corresponding information for that link. But now, when you click on that corresponding link to return to your GGGrandmothers section where you left off.....you find that you are now linked back to the GGGrandfathers first occurrence instead of the original location of the link you first clicked on. Is it possible or is it your future plans to have links corresponding back to where they were originated in order to cover every instance or is this just way to much detail?

Thanks

RE: BEHOLD: 98.9d,alpha

lkessler

Posted by lkessler on 29 Aug 2007 11:13 PM in General Discussion

Thanks Steve,

I've been working on Behold for so long that it's getting hard for me to figure out what is a needed feature and what isn't. Trying to make a program powerful, while still being fast and easy to use is not a simple task. And that's especially complicated since I know that everyone uses the program differently.

My best "Aha's" come when I actually use Behold myself, which unfortunately isn't often enough yet. So I really appreciate the great input I've got from you and all the other people who have purchased or are trying Behold. Many of the changes in this version were motivated by user suggestions.

But you know my real goal, and I've got to keep focused on it. Version 2.0 will enable you to do all your genealogy data entry in Behold.

What you see now is nothing compared to what Version 2.0 will be.

But first, I'm going to see if I can get to 0.99 beta in the next 2 months. Take a deep breath and ...

Louis

BEHOLD: 98.9d,alpha

sjm1010

Posted by sjm1010 on 29 Aug 2007 6:34 PM in General Discussion

When you visually see a difference in a program tool that you use on a constant basis, it sort of thrills you at first. Then when you get by all the fireworks and work within the program itself, that�s when the real thrill begins. With the newest updates I can see and reference 10 times faster, such as examples; birth, death, burial, addresses, which I am currently using in a big way and unique ID�s. The link colors are easy to see, they grab your attention right away and that�s a good thing after two or three hours of working on the computer. The changes in the SURNAME section were a good idea to say the least, and the whole table of contents seems to view easier to me. I like the updates, great job Louis.

RE: Lenny Lines problem

lkessler

Posted by lkessler on 1 Aug 2007 7:31 PM in Problem Reports

Solution found! The files Tamura and I were using were indeed different.

Thank you to all the people who did the test and e-mailed the results to me. You helped us figure out what it was.

Louis

Lenny Lines problem

lkessler

Posted by lkessler on 31 Jul 2007 7:20 PM in Problem Reports

A very strange bug in Behold was found by Tamura. The problem is I have not been able to reproduce it on 5 different machines. We even both ran it in Microsoft Virtual PC with the same Window XP footprint, but still get different results.

If any of you with Behold are reading this, I'd appreciate your help. If you could download this very simple GEDCOM file and load it into Behold, please see which of the results you get:

Do you get Figure 1:

Or do you get Figure 2:

If you could let me know which you get, that may help solve the puzzle. Thanks.

RE: Sentence / Paragraph structures under tag

lkessler

Posted by lkessler on 30 May 2007 8:20 PM in Feature Suggestions

Oh I have so many ideas ... but it has taken so long just to get here. I probably have rewritten almost every line of Behold (maybe 15,000 lines of my own code) since the first alpha release two years ago.

If it weren't for the firm roadmap I've outlined for myself on my Future Plans page, I'd be getting very frustrated by now.

The beta release (originally planned for about 5 years ago, but now hopefully to come in a couple of months) will be a tremendous milestone for me.

The genealogical word processer of Version 2 is still the ultimate goal. I am as impatient about seeing it as anyone.

Thanks for your kind words. If you can wait, I don't intend to let you and the other supporters of Behold down.

Louis

RE: Sentence / Paragraph structures under tag

sjm1010

Posted by sjm1010 on 30 May 2007 3:29 PM in Feature Suggestions

At some point I believe you mentioned that Behold will eventually have the ability to "word process"? I don't want you to think that I am a picky type of person and that I want the corrections right now. I can wait. I just like being a part of this project and watching it come to fruition!!

Steve

RE: Sentence / Paragraph structures under tag

lkessler

Posted by lkessler on 30 May 2007 12:26 AM in Feature Suggestions

Yes, I will get rid of that extra indentation. That is a bug. Hopefully the notes will appear nice again after I fix that.

Unfortunately, there is no real standard as to how programs are supposed to export their notes to GEDCOM. I have to find (or be informed of) the differences, and then do my best to get Behold to display them properly.

After I get the next release out in a few days, please see if the notes appear better. If not, let me know, and I'll see what I can do.

Louis

RE: Sentence / Paragraph structures under tag

sjm1010

Posted by sjm1010 on 29 May 2007 9:09 PM in Feature Suggestions

Hi Louis,

I found why the paragraphs in the "Note" sections were out of sync under "personal-notes" for each individual. Any time you try and break up a large paragraph into more than one Behold will indent the next sentence and any thereafter the fourth sentence. If you write a note and you do not paragraph it then Behold will display each sentence lined up under the following correctly, (one big paragraph). The other note references in Legacy such as event notes, residence notes, and so on, have no problems because the �notes� are incorporated right into the �event� itself. The Personal Note section in Legacy seems to be structured separately from any of the event notes; it appears to be some kind of Legacy ma-thing a ma-whatcha?

Steve

RE: Tag acronyms?

sjm1010

Posted by sjm1010 on 29 May 2007 8:04 PM in Questions and Answers

Just when you think you know everything, you are correct Louis and I have corrected the issue, thank you.

Steve

RE: Regarding our mutal and very annoying friend - jackass@wallasasa.com

lkessler

Posted by lkessler on 26 May 2007 12:21 AM in Behold Blog Comments

I ended up simply hardcoding that domain into my automated sending script. For now, it seems to be the only domain that is managing to "press" the download button.

If this becomes a major problem with multiple domains and IP addresses, then I will have go back and try to get a verify-email script working.

Louis

Regarding our mutal and very annoying friend - jackass@wallasasa.com

MarkArgentino

Posted by MarkArgentino on 22 May 2007 12:51 PM in Behold Blog Comments

I read your blog post about our mutual annoying friend, jackass@wallasasa.com and the plethora of spam posts that this bot puts out. Still only 788 hits with google, but this bot is very annoying.

The variable IP stops me from blocking this time waster, but I have to agree, it's annoying.

If you ever figure out a method to stop these spam email signups, let me know.

In the meantime, I wish you and your family all the best!
Mark

RE: Sentence / Paragraph structures under tag

lkessler

Posted by lkessler on 20 May 2007 12:35 PM in Feature Suggestions

Stephen:

I think I see what you're talking about. Notes that are top-level (GEDCOM Level 1) are formatted into paragraphs.

But Notes that are level 2 and below are not. An example is a Note that is attached to Birth or Occupation information.

The concept was to compress all information about a top-level event together to save space. And I had not expected big notes beneath events.

Thanks for pointing that out. I should probably use the GEDCOM formats for notes at any level. But I'll have to figure out how to best do that for an internal note so as to leave the preceeding and following information intact. e.g. What if there are notes on the Birth date, notes on the Birth place, and then notes on the Birth itself, plus source references for all these. It could get messy.

Could you send me an example of a specific note that is most bothersome to you, and I'll take a look at what the best fix might be.

For level 1 notes and lining up under the "e", it seems that the extra indentation for paragraphs after the first is a bug that I never caught starting in Version 0.98.7. I'll fix that.

Also, I know that some people have notes they built with a fixed-format font (each character is the same width). They then lined up information vertically themselves to make the note. Behold uses a default font that is narrow and characters are different widths. This messes up those nicely formatted notes. I'll have to think up something for this.

Louis

RE: Tag acronyms?

lkessler

Posted by lkessler on 20 May 2007 12:00 PM in Questions and Answers

Stephen:

Those are not tags in the official GEDCOM. It looks like Legacy adds them. I think you'll find them in Legacy's Marriage Information.

HTITL and WTITL probably stand for Husband's Title and Wife's Title and appear in Legacy's marriage information in the Report Phrases section under "Left label" and "Right label".

RPT_PHRS probably stands for Report Phrase and must be the text that is in the "Person 1" box in the Report Phrases section.

I don't think Legacy normally exports those tags to a GEDCOM file. I can't find any Legacy-made GEDCOMs that have any of those tags in it. You must have turned on some option in Legacy to export them.

Normally you would not want formatting definitions like these to display in Behold. They are not your data.

Louis

Tag acronyms?

sjm1010

Posted by sjm1010 on 19 May 2007 2:20 AM in Questions and Answers

Hi Louis,

Wondering if you knew what the following tags stand for? I believe their tag acronyms? HTITL, WTITL, RPT_PHRS,

Thank you......example below.

Stephen

Family ID is: F54
Status: Unmarried 5 Jun 2004
Marriage: HTITL Father WTITL Mother RPT_PHRS Unmarried Type: Unmarried 5 Jun 2004 [S66-15 Personal Knowledge - Personal reflections, first hand information, and documented sources by compiler] Note: Dominic Jason Paiva, his parents Danielle Masone and Jason Bruce Paiva were not married at the time of his birth HTITL Father WTITL Mother RPT_PHRS Unmarried
Children: Relationship to Father: Biological. Relationship to Mother: Biological. Dominic�Jason�PAIVA

Sentence / Paragraph structures under tag "NOTES"?

sjm1010

Posted by sjm1010 on 19 May 2007 2:06 AM in Feature Suggestions

Hi Louis,

I was wondering if it was possible to change the way sentence or paragraph structures are presented in Beholds Everything Report, the current structure that appears under the "NOTE� tag?

If you look at each individuals �NOTE� section you will see that the first three to four lines line up under the letter �e� in the word (Note). Every sentence that follows these first few lines are now indented up to three letters. There are also no paragraph breaks in the notes section itself, even though my original notes have them.

This makes the notes appear as if their just one big paragraph, troublesome to read clearly. Is this Beholds way or is it Legacy?

My suggestion is, if possible, that every sentence "under" the "Note" heading should line up under the letter "e" after the initial sentence, cleaner look. My second suggestion would be paragraph breaks in the "Note" section.

If you understand what I just wrote.....your a better man than me!! Thank you.

Stephen

RE: Importing Two Ged Files

lkessler

Posted by lkessler on 16 May 2007 12:18 AM in Feature Suggestions

Thank you David for your ideas.

I think your advice is the correct advice. I have very strong feelings AGAINST merging other people's data into one's own. I'd go even farther and say that you should NOT add other people's data to your own.

Behold will be introducing a concept I call "Virtual Merging". I discuss it in my Behold Blog post of August 28, 2006.

My idea is that (with Behold's help), you specify which people in the files are the same, and Behold will produce one report for you, merging the information for those identical people from the files.

Does that make sense to you?

Louis

RE: Importing Two Ged Files

DavidB

Posted by DavidB on 15 May 2007 8:28 PM in Feature Suggestions

This is an important concept deserving careful attention.

When teaching I always advise users to open received GEDCOM files separately rather than a straight addition. Two key reasons:
1. When exchanging data with other family researchers there are (usually) a great many duplicates and the automatic merge function is rarely good enough to accurately distinguish between 'probable matches' and 'possibles' - such as twins Jean and Joan. Manual merges can be very time consuming.
2. Some of the information is not reliable and needs independent verification before adding to one's main family tree. For this reason it is important to retain the submitters information as an over-arching source record.

I like the concept of side-by-side Gedcoms with cross links to COMBINE data without a full MERGE. But I would like to be able to copy and paste from one to the other when I am satisfied about the quality of the data. (I'm a new user so haven't explored enough to know whether this feature is already available.)

RE: Locks up on opening Gedcom

lkessler

Posted by lkessler on 27 Apr 2007 10:21 PM in Problem Reports

Thanks very much for reporting this. Behold should not lock up on a file that small, so this is a problem I would really like to identify and fix as quickly as possible.

TMG, being so powerful, often includes different things in its GEDCOM than other programs do. I have tested a few TMG GEDCOMs, but the ones I have seem to work for me.

I hope you wouldn't mind sending me the GEDCOM to lkessler at lkessler.com, since that would be the easiest way for me to find what's causing this.

Thanks.

Louis

Locks up on opening Gedcom

waldonj

Posted by waldonj on 27 Apr 2007 1:51 PM in Problem Reports

I just downloaded the latest alpha today. I selected open of a GEDCOM I created from TMG a few weeks ago. It sat at least 10 minutes at 99% (50% 32%) preparing report. Finally it changed to Done (lower left) and 100% (49% 31%) with an empty "Good Ideas" dialog box. It would not respond to any clicks and I was finally forced to kill it. I restarted it again and tried to load the GEDCOM again, seems to be doing the same thing. I believe I have between 3500 - 3800 people in the GEDCOM

RE: Speed Enhancements

lkessler

Posted by lkessler on 21 Mar 2007 1:10 AM in General Discussion

When Version 0.98.9 comes out in a few weeks, there will yet another speed improvement. This one will be amazing: about 5 times faster!

Yet, I still see some places I can squeeze even more out before the Beta release.

Louis

RE: Text Viewer

silicon

Posted by silicon on 29 Nov 2006 5:48 AM in Behold Blog Comments

Louis,

As I said I could be wrong. I have edited a few Gedcom files, but I was trying to be cautious as I have introduced so many people to computers and some of the things they do just amazes me, and frusterates me at the same time trying to correct all they managed to do.

Thanks for Your Open Mind.. And a Great Program.

Herb...

RE: Biological info glitch?

sjm1010

Posted by sjm1010 on 29 Nov 2006 5:23 AM in Problem Reports

Not a major problem Louis but I just wanted to point it out if you hadn't seen it yet. No need to have it updated until its planned as far as I'm concerned.

Thank you!

RE: Text Viewer

lkessler

Posted by lkessler on 29 Nov 2006 2:06 AM in Behold Blog Comments

... and I decided to make Notepad the default, as you suggested.

I actually didn't do it because of possible problems with Wordpad. But I did it because clicking on the Log icon will bring up a new Notepad window with a refreshed log. A new window is not opened for Wordpad, and you have to close the opened window first if you want it refreshed.

Louis

RE: Text Viewer

lkessler

Posted by lkessler on 28 Nov 2006 11:54 PM in Behold Blog Comments

Thinking more about this, it might be best to still make the GEDCOM viewing possible, but make it less obvious. Maybe I'll move that function to the GEDCOM page of the Organize Window.

I'll change the GEDCOM icon become a "find files" function, which will be useful to everyone.

Louis

RE: Text Viewer

lkessler

Posted by lkessler on 28 Nov 2006 9:17 PM in Behold Blog Comments

Herb:

Well, I never planned on adding a capability to edit GEDCOMs directly. Those things are horrible to manually edit. The real purpose is just to view it if there is some reason to. In my case, I look at it all the time to make sure that Behold is displaying the GEDCOM constructs correctly. But I guess 99% of the people may never want to look at it.

Future editing in Behold will be directly done right on the Everything Report in Behold (Version 2). I'll be adding a number of word-processor-like tools to help make that a snap. Then Behold will be able to save your data (Version 1.5) with edits into a fully valid GEDCOM.

But the text viewer will also be used to view the log file. I picked Wordpad because it is a bit faster for large files, but Notepad is good too. I have added a menu item to allow you to set the text editor to whatever you want.

I've never heard of Wordpad having trouble with text files, but I may be wrong. I know you can get in trouble if you use Wordpad to open a Microsoft Word file and then try saving it as text. But GEDCOMs start off as pure text, so I don't think they'd be a problem if someone wanted to torture themselves and edit one with either Wordpad or Notepad.

Louis

RE: Biological info glitch?

lkessler

Posted by lkessler on 28 Nov 2006 8:42 PM in Problem Reports

Thanks Steve, for pointing this out.

While I was implementing those links, I noticed that as a problem. But I thought I had fixed it. It seems that I've fixed some of the cases but not all, as I found some files where it happens and some where it doesn't - and that's very peculiar.

I'll trace it down and get it fixed for the next version. If you can't wait a couple of months, let me know and I'll send you a copy with the fix. Your other option is to uncheck the _FREL and _MREL tags on the Tags page and then they won't be displayed.

I'm also going to put in my Future Plans to add some conditional "show" options. In this case, you may only want to display _FREL and _MREL if the value is not "Biological".

Louis

Text Viewer

silicon

Posted by silicon on 28 Nov 2006 6:38 PM in Behold Blog Comments

Louis,

I noticed you had set the default for the txt viewer as WordPad.
In the future you plan on adding edit capabilities to Gedcom's, and based on what I have seen, but may be mistaken, most of the genealogy programs use a simple ascii text editor. If memory serves me right, WordPad does include some embedded characters in their text when saved. If Not I stsnd corrected, but, if they do, then using WordPad as the default could cause havoc where people exchange gedcoms into other programs. I wouldn't want to see that tarnish your program if it corrupted other programs when imported. Maybe a ascii editor (NotePad) as default and Wordpad as a option with cautions.

Herb...

Biological info glitch?

sjm1010

Posted by sjm1010 on 28 Nov 2006 2:42 PM in Problem Reports

Hi Louis,

I've noticed a possible glitch in Behold's Everything Report when it displays the biological relationships between parent and child. I see that Behold repeats this information about three to four times when it should be listed only once per child.

Ex: Relationship to Father: Biological. Relationship to Mother: Biological. Relationship to Father: Biological. Relationship to Mother: Biological.

It appears to be random through out TER and only in this tag. I ran a relationship report in Legacy and it only displays the biological relationship once. Any ideas?

Thanks Steve

Happy Birthday

sjm1010

Posted by sjm1010 on 27 Nov 2006 11:47 AM in Behold Blog Comments

Happy Birthday Louis. Sounds like your life has been truely lived.

Happy Birthday

brknhrt

Posted by brknhrt on 27 Nov 2006 8:28 AM in Behold Blog Comments

A belated birthday greeting to you.
Linda Brandau

RE: Problem with 0.98.7 Alpha 22 Nov 2006 platform

lkessler

Posted by lkessler on 24 Nov 2006 11:20 PM in Problem Reports

To everyone:

I put a very high importance on fixing bugs like this ASAP. Please do not hesitate to report them to me.

A new bugfix version, 0.98.7a is now the one available. If you upgraded to 0.98.7 a couple of days ago, please upgrade again.

Louis

RE: Problem with 0.98.7 Alpha 22 Nov 2006 platform

JRichmond

Posted by JRichmond on 24 Nov 2006 7:31 PM in Problem Reports

Louis, your fix was complete. This version now works flawlessly with my data. Thanks.

John

Problem with 0.98.7 Alpha 22 Nov 2006 platform

JRichmond

Posted by JRichmond on 24 Nov 2006 1:36 PM in Problem Reports

Hi, all. After loading 98.7 and attempting to open a GEDCOM, I receive the following error message (complete with big red X in the left hand corner):

Access violation @ address 005E0621 in module 'behold.exe.' Read of address 00000000.

When I hit the "OK" button attached to this message, the message box goes away, but the hour glass stays on, and I cannot work with the program. If I click on any heading within the program, I get a warning box (with yellow caution triangle on the left) that says:

Cannot find this jump location.

Hitting the "OK" button makes the box go away, but the hour glass again comes on, and the program is inoperable.

Right clicking leads to messages for instant organizing, etc., but following up on them takes me back to the initial Access violation @ address 005E0621 message. Eventually have to use control/alt/del to exit.

Any ideas? Is this a solitary event?

Any help appreciated! Thanks,

John Richmond

RE: Speed Enhancements

lkessler

Posted by lkessler on 23 Nov 2006 11:11 AM in General Discussion

It's good so far. But there is still quite a bit of improvement possible. I hope to decrease the time taken in just about every new version that comes out.

Still, loading a large GEDCOM into Behold is like loading a several thousand page document into Microsoft Word. So there are limits - but even those can be whittled away with some research and experimentation.

Louis

Speed Enhancements

rwcrooks

Posted by rwcrooks on 22 Nov 2006 8:47 AM in General Discussion

Louis,

All I can say is "WOW!"

What a huge improvement. I can't believe all the work that Behold is doing in such a short time when it opens.

Even if there were no other enhancements with this dot release, this would have been more than enough!

Rich

RE: Virtual Merging

lkessler

Posted by lkessler on 30 Aug 2006 11:51 PM in Behold Blog Comments

I know I do still have some clean-up to do in the way some of lines are printed, but I can't tell from your description if what I'm thinking of is what you're seeing.

If you want I can take a look at it if you don't mind sending me your GEDCOM and pointing out where the extra spaces are occurring.

Louis

RE: Virtual Merging

silicon

Posted by silicon on 30 Aug 2006 10:14 AM in Behold Blog Comments

You are correct. Senir Moment. GedSplit is what I use. I'm in my 70's now and each year I see how the body and mind ages.
Mature's is more appropiate from my perspective, but watching the talking heads they seem to think we all are idiots who don't pay attention to life around us.
Enough of this. Keep up the good work.
BTW, I noticed in some of the pharsing of my data that there is/was extra spaces between characters. It might be where I have a break in the sentence in my notes, etc. that Behold see's an extra space or creates one. Don't know but it is not a show stopper.

Herb...

RE: Virtual Merging

lkessler

Posted by lkessler on 30 Aug 2006 12:27 AM in Behold Blog Comments

Thanks for vote of support on Virtual Merging. Hopefully you'll still be around long after Behold reaches maturity. It's only taken (arrgh) 10 years to get this far.

But isn't Winsplit just a file splitter? I don't quite understand how you would use it to split GEDCOM datasets.

Louis

Virtual Merging

silicon

Posted by silicon on 29 Aug 2006 8:47 PM in Behold Blog Comments

Louis,

I for one see great things for your idea of Virtual Merging. I have had to use WinSplit many times to fork databases from my original db and see this way of merging information much more realistic than the methods currently employed by many developers.
The sooner the better. As I look at your timeline and future plans, it may be that I will not be around when it finally happens, but it will be a Great Thing for those of us who care for accuracy and not quantity.

Herb...

RE: Point to Point Charts

lkessler

Posted by lkessler on 17 Aug 2006 6:29 PM in Questions and Answers

Most genealogy programs do have individual-to-individual charts, sometimes known as relationship charts. If that's all you need, then I believe the free version of Legacy has this. See: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/rptRelationshipChart.asp)

What Behold does that is different from the rest is it allows you to "Instant Organize" on a person. If this is your family tree and mostly contains your own relatives, then the resulting report will be everything about everyone who is related to both of you, organized in a logical way that is easy to understand and customize.

A future version of Behold will include a relationship calculator that will display next to every individual in the report, their relationship to a person you specify. It won't just show a single relationship, but will show multiple ones and optionally indicate the ancestor(s) that begin that connection. Oh, and it will show relationships through marriage as well. This is currently on my Future Plans page for version 1.3, although I must remark that the first prototype of Behold I had made 10 years ago had a simplified version of this, so the proof of concept is there.

Louis

Point to Point Charts

dmopro

Posted by dmopro on 17 Aug 2006 1:49 AM in Questions and Answers

My daughter has a history class where they are studying historical figures on our family tree. Does 'Behold" or any other program allow you to select a "To individual" and a "From individual" for Ancestry/Descendant charts? We really don't want all the extra people on the charts.