Unlike one’s genealogy research, I do have an idea of where Behold should end up.. Once Behold provides 99% of its intended benefits, which will solve those six bad things plus add multimedia handling (correctly), then development needs to stop. Then what is required is simply maintenance and conversion from dying platforms and technologies to new ones to keep it running. Additional “features” at that point only serve to make a program more complicated and harder to use and more difficult to document and maintain and convert.

When that is done (hopefully within 5 years, or about the time I retire from my day job), I plan to devote my retirement to use Behold to properly document my genealogy and family history source-centrically by going through my 5 boxes of material and my thousands of pictures and videos and emails that have been steadily accumulating and patiently waiting all these years for me.

Of course, I will also always continue to provide support to users of Behold.

“The iBehold”. I like it. But somehow, I think I’ll get in trouble with a certain red fruit if I use it.

I don’t care a whole lot about merging trees from other researchers with my tree, or doing web searching from within the program.

I do want to put my tree in online trees as “cousin bait,” and I do want to make it as accurate as possible while trying to adhere to the Genealogical Proof Standard.

As you know, i’m an aerospace engineer with pretty conventional creative skills, meaning I don’t think out of the box too often, but I love to tinker with the neat boxes created by other people. I tend to analyze rather than create.

If iBehold! can satisfy enough customers, and I hope that it can, then your effort will be highly rewarded and you’ll have a lifetime job of upgrading it. I wish you only the best!