http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ The Behold User Forum http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/blog/../beholddiscuss.gif Posts by Louis Kessler are Copyright 2000-2012 Louis Kessler, All Rights Reserved. Posts by others belong to the people who made them. en http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=31#post-352 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:51:37 GMT lkessler 352@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>Well, my idea for Virtual Merging is extremely necessary. Too often, people are merging other people's GEDCOMs into their own, trusting that other people did theirs correctly and proliferating what are called "junk genealogies". </p> <p>Not only that, you WANT to keep your work separate. If relatives send something to you, why go through days or weeks of work to merge theirs into yours, only to have them send you an updated GEDCOM six months later. That time could be much better expended doing your own research, rather than on some mechanical merging that could be done virtually.</p> <p>I'll make the virtual merging painless. The most difficult thing for me will be figuring out how to help identify who might be potential merge candidates, since names and places might be spelled a little differently, dates might be different, and spouses and children can be different or missing. Once I figure out something for that, the rest is a piece of cake.</p> <p>Louis </p> Feature Suggestions http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=31#post-351 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:35:27 GMT seecan05 351@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>Louis,<br /> Thank you for the quick response. You are right in that the cost of $40 is much less than other programs. That is appreciated. It almost seems worth it to purchase 2 memberships, one for files for each side of my family..... notice I said almost. Then when you figure out a way to not have one person duplicated (what you suggested above seems a bit tedious), I could possibly merge the files from the other membership so that as my immediate family grows I won't have to add new members of my family in both membership files. I'm sure that you have already thought of that scenerio and worked it into your plans.</p> <p>I will want to make sure I have included all of my information before I create yet another GED file to upload to Behold.</p> <p>Thanks again. </p> Feature Suggestions http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=31#post-350 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:42:31 GMT lkessler 350@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>Seecan:</p> <p>Currently, Behold will import two (or more) GEDCOMs and display them together. The current weakness is that it currently has no way for you to indicate the people who you know are the same in the two families, so every duplicated person will be shown twice. </p> <p>In the case of your paternal grandfather and paternal grandmother, it is likely that your parents and all their descendants will be in both files, as well as possibly some cousins who may have married between the families and their descendants.</p> <p>That will be fixed when I implement Virtual Merging, which will give you ways to simply mark the people that are the same so that their data and their descendents' data can be displayed combined by person. Currently, that is on my <a href="http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/future.php">future plans page</a>, but after Version 2.0 and editing. Although every time someone asks about something, like you just did, it moves up in my internal priority list. </p> <p>In the meantime, you should still find the current merging very useful. The people will be shown separately, but the Name Index, Place Details, Source Details and everything else should prove very useful and allow you to find data problems in both your files.</p> <p>Hmmm. Now you're getting me thinking of a way I can implement Virtual Merging much more quickly. I can on the Organize Families page, allow you to add the person from the Second GEDCOM file, and allow you to specify that they are the same as a previous person on that page. You'll only need to do that for a few of them, being the beginning of the common lines. It should work out quite well. I may try to do that prior to going on. Thanks for the push.</p> <p>Your second question is a very good one and I'm happy to answer. Although no one can predict the future and I may get run over by a bus tomorrow. But barring something like that, I'm planning to continue work on Behold for the foreseeable future which is likely a minimum of 10 years. I'm absolutely positive it will be successful because there is no other program like it, and it's the program I will want to use to record my own genealogy (which will extensively test it as well as I start to enter my masses of data). </p> <p>Currently, I have nothing in place should that bus be lurking. But I have been thinking about it. If I grow large enough, I'll hire others to help me, including programmers. (I'd love to get big enough to sponsor my own Genealogy Cruise!) If not, and Behold remains of interest, I may sell it to someone willing to keep it going, or donate it to the Open Source effort. But Behold's my baby. I won't let it die. </p> <p>Besides, $40 is less than you'll spend on a single upgrade of another program. So after 10 years of use, I'm sure you won't be lamenting the loss of the $40. What will be more important to you will be if you will not lose all your hours of work and be able to continue your research with another program. Make sure your program will export compliant GEDCOM. Behold will. Many programs don't</p> <p>Louis </p> Feature Suggestions http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=31#post-349 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 01:53:02 GMT seecan05 349@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>Hello Louis,<br /> I am considering purchasing a membership to Behold. First however, I have a couple of questions and one led me to the subject heading of this particular post "Importing two GED files".<br /> My files are very large, not nearly as large as some, but there are more than 2000 names in my family file. And this is mainly my paternal grandmother's side. But I also have a maternal grandmother's GED files.<br /> I would like to keep these seperate, and so can I import my Mother side, and then a 2nd GED file for my father with one membership?</p> <p>My second question, and I apologize because it is unrelated to the topic: In reading your bio stating that you are age 55. If my membership would be forever, is that my forever or your forever. What do you have in place that will allow Behold out live us both? </p> Feature Suggestions http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=120#post-348 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 01:15:08 GMT lkessler 348@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>Brett: Thanks for this. Yes that is a bug. It should not include the day of the week in the error message. It should simply say:</p> <p>** Date NonStd (#43): Should be "26 MAY 1935" to conform to GEDCOM standards.</p> <p>I'll make that fix and squeeze it into a Version 1.0.2 tonight. </p> <p>Actually, I have to sheepishly say, I had another bug in that all dates that were the 30th of the month were reported as an error as I accidentally omitted "and if month = FEB" from the test. That was mentioned to me about 6 hours after the release, and I snuck that bug fix in a few minutes later, but didn't increment the version as I should have. So I'm coming clean now. </p> <p>Also, I meant to, but forgot to add an important, but simple change. Currently, a wife's maiden name and all her married names but the last are put into brackets, e.g:</p> <p>Jane [Smith Jones] White</p> <p>But I just read that the proper way to do it, according to Mills in Evidence Explained, pages 82-83, is to simply to put only the maiden name into parenthesis, e.g.:</p> <p>Jan (Smith) Jones White</p> <p>So I'll make that change as well. </p> Questions and Answers http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=120#post-347 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:23:32 GMT brett 347@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>Louis<br /> The latest version of Behold (1.0.1) reports</p> <p>766: 2 DATE 26 MAY 1935<br /> ** Date NonStd (#43): Should be "Sun 26 MAY 1935" to conform to GEDCOM standards.</p> <p>Is the date with Day part of GEDCOM 5.5.1, as it is not included in 5.5, or at least I cannot see where it is.</p> <p>Thanks </p> Questions and Answers http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=112#post-343 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:41:07 GMT esd 343@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>No offense taken. </p> <p>ESD </p> Report a Problem http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=112#post-337 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 05:00:19 GMT lkessler 337@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>Yes, Legacy corrects your data for you. I don't understand how it might do it. It's not just a matter of adding a comma at the end. It has to know one is missing. That means it has to know that is a State abbreviation at the end. </p> <p>What if it's a State name instead, e.g. Texas instead of TX. Will it add the comma at the end of that as well? But if it does, then will Texas and TX be sorted together? Or will it now change Texas to TX for you? What about North Carolina and N. Carolina and N Carolina and NC. Will they be all corrected and go together? What if you have TX, USA? Will it take off the USA so that it will be together with the TX? </p> <p>It's not as clear cut as you make it seem. And the bottom line is that because Legacy is correcting your data for you, but NOT exporting the corrected data, you don't even realize that its doing that and you'll be sunk if you have to transfer it to another program or give it to someone who uses another program. That program may totally mangle the places when it reads it in giving you an impossible mess - and you might not realize it until its too late, because Legacy just "fixed" it for you. </p> <p>That's why I don't think its right. </p> <p>But I do agree that you have a good reason for place details to be sorted by date first. I've had a bit of trouble deciding which way to primarily sort. I first added the events. And later I added the dates - so they were done that way and I initially justified to myself that it was the right way for research. But I had contemplated being able to flip the levels. If I did do that, it would be an Organize option, but it would also be an instant flip tool, like the show Selected / show All tags button. It would require changes to the database structure to allow the instant flip - so it is more possible, but a bit more involved to program. </p> <p>I do have to be careful about options. I'm trying to keep Behold as simple to use as possible, but the Organization features are already overwhelming to many people. The fact that you do nothing but input your GEDCOM and get everything organized and displayed is the first step. I'm trying to set it up for editing, and the more options I add at this step, the more difficult the editing will be. On the other hand, the longer I wait to add any option, e.g. until after editing, the harder it will be to add it. It's really not easy. I am trying to do my best. </p> <p>And I really do apologize because it sounds like you were insulted by what I said. I'm sorry.</p> <p>Louis </p> Report a Problem http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=112#post-336 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:48:18 GMT esd 336@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>"If Behold isn't reading your data as you thought you had entered it, then no other program will either."<br /> Perhaps this didn't come through my rambling explanation, but Legacy DOES do exactly what I want with my location data. I'm not a programmer, but since you are, I thought you'd be interested in exploring the difference between their sorting/display method and yours. But if not, so be it. I withdraw the suggestion.</p> <p>"Is there a reason under the Place details as to why you would want events sorted by date first?"<br /> In my research, I am just as interested in learning about the places where my family lived -- at the time they lived there -- as I am in collecting their BMD statistics. Having a way to easily see the range of dates in which my family was active in a particular location would be of great help to me in this regard. Legacy doesn't give me that option in their Locations Report either. I'll submit it to them and see if they are more open to the possibility. You seem to dismiss their "multitude of options" as confusing, but that has not been my experience.</p> <p>Best of luck with Behold.</p> <p>ESD </p> Report a Problem http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=112#post-335 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:55:14 GMT lkessler 335@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>I'm reading back my last post. I hope I didn't sound terse. I didn't mean to.</p> <p>I just wanted to say that I'm trying to present your data in Behold in the most useful way possible. If Behold isn't reading your data as you thought you had entered it, then no other program will either. That's why it's important that you correct your data. One day you'll want to export it and you'll have problems unless it's corrected. </p> <p>Display wise - I've put lots of thought into the display. The intention is to make the display most useful for research purposes. I try on purpose not to give a lot of options on the display. How many times are you totally confused by the multitude of options in Legacy's reports? All you want is for it to produce what you want but you can't get it for all the options. Sometimes less is more, as long as the less is defined correctly 99% of the time.</p> <p>I am very open to ideas. Many of my ideas come from users. In fact there's a good one I got today which I'm going to implement and <a href="http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/blog/?p=883">mention on my blog post tonight.</a> </p> <p>But the idea has got to fit in with the overall design of Behold and its purpose: To present your data in a simple single Everything Report designed to help you understand your data and do your research.</p> <p>Louis </p> Report a Problem http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=112#post-334 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:18:25 GMT lkessler 334@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>So let me understand. You want an option to sort places either "the correct way" or "the wrong way". Behold sorts the correct way so that you can correct your mistakes. </p> <p>Is there a reason under the Place details as to why you would want events sorted by date first? I cannot see a reason because there are no records that are date ordered. You always look up Birth records, or Marriage records, etc. I really need to know a useful purpose for something, because believe or not, extra options and extra features complicate and confuse people.</p> <p>Louis </p> Report a Problem http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=112#post-333 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:30:57 GMT esd 333@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>No, Louis, that wasn't the problem. I don't have any "private" individuals in my database. And I knew that the place information that seemed to be "missing" from the Place Details report was in the GEDCOM because it was all showing up appropriately in the other Behold reports. </p> <p>As I thought more about, I realized that it must be something in the way the locations were recorded or set-up in Legacy, since whether any particular location appeared (or at least was being found by me) in the Place Details report or not was an "all or nothing" proposition. Upon investigation, I discovered my problem. All my locations ARE in the Behold Place Details report, it's just that they appear in two separate alphabetical sequences and that was what was confusing me. It has to do with how I entered the commas.</p> <p>Since the vast majority of my locations are in the USA, I only enter a country in the fourth location "slot" when it is non-US. If I don't know the town/city or the county, I always insert one or two leading commas to make certain that the state appears in the third "slot." I have been inconsistent, however, about putting a comma after the state. In Legacy, I have my location index set to display from right to left, so all the locations without information in the fourth slot (i.e., at the US locations) appear together at the beginning of the list, followed by the foreign country locations. When it comes to that sorting, however, Legacy doesn't care whether I've entered a final comma after the state or not. It's like it "assumes" that the final comma is there. I now see that Behold isn't set up that way. All the entries that have a comma after the state are sorted together, at the head of the Place Detail list, and those that don't have a comma appear with the states alphabetized in with the foreign countries. </p> <p>If I were to standardize my location entries, I'd prefer to move everything to the "no comma after the state for US locations" format (fewer extraneous commas in reports, etc). Is there anyway that I can get Behold to sort them the way Legacy does? </p> <p>Also, the details that appear under each location are sorted alphabetically by the field name... birth, death, event, marriage.... Is there an option by which the details could be sorted by date? </p> <p>Many thanks for all your great work on Behold. I've only played with it for a few hours, but it's truly impressive even in its first version.</p> <p>ESD </p> Report a Problem http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=112#post-332 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:35:34 GMT lkessler 332@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>esd:</p> <p>The simple test I did exporting from Legacy with default export options resulted in the same situation as you had, where Behold did not seem to report every place. But when I looked in the GEDCOM file Legacy produced, I saw there were a number of people marked PRIVATE with no events or places attached to them.</p> <p>Do you have any individuals market Private in your file? if so, you have to override Legacy's default options to get all the data into the GEDCOM. In Legacy, in the GEDCOM Export window, go to the Privacy tab. In the bottom left section where it says "Override Private Settings", check all the boxes (there's 8 of them in Legacy 7.5). Then try the export and load that into Behold. If that exports all the people and places to the GEDCOM, then Behold should get them all.</p> <p>Please let me know if that works.</p> <p>The bottom line is that Behold can't read any data that is not in the GEDCOM.</p> <p>Louis </p> Report a Problem http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=112#post-331 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:41:29 GMT esd 331@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>There are locations that are not showing up in my Place Details report. When I compare Behold location details with Legacy Family Tree (my primary software, from which the GEDCOM was created), here are some examples of the differences I'm seeing:</p> <p>, TX, Harris Co, -------- [Legacy = 1 ppl] [Behold = 1 ppl]<br /> , TX, Harris Co, Goose Creek (detail) [Legacy = 2 ppl] [Behold = 0 ppl]<br /> , TX, Harris Co, Houston [Legacy = 7 ppl] [Behold = 0 ppl]<br /> , TX, Harris Co, Houston (detail 1) [Legacy = 1 ppl] [Behold = 1 ppl]<br /> , TX, Harris Co, Houston (detail 2) [Legacy = 1 ppl] [Behold = 1 ppl]<br /> , TX, Harris Co, Houston (detail 3) [Legacy = 1 ppl] [Behold = 1 ppl]<br /> , TX, Harris Co, Houston Heights [Legacy = 1 ppl] [Behold = 0 ppl]<br /> , TX, Harris Co, Pelly [Legacy = 1 ppl] [Behold = 1 ppl]</p> <p>, TX, McLennan Co, Waco [Legacy = 10ppl] [Behold = 0 ppl]<br /> , TX, McLennan Co, Waco (detail 1) [Legacy = 1 ppl] [Behold = 0 ppl]<br /> , TX, McLennan Co, Waco (detail 2) [Legacy = 1 ppl] [Behold = 1 ppl]<br /> , TX, McLennan Co, Waco (detail 3) [Legacy = 1 ppl] [Behold = 1 ppl]<br /> , TX, McLennan Co, Waco (detail 4) [Legacy = 3 ppl] [Behold = 3 ppl] </p> Report a Problem http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=111#post-330 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 03:49:52 GMT lkessler 330@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>There's no size limit on array sizes, if that's what you mean. But every program runs into trouble at some point simply due to memory requirements to load in a large number of individuals or due to taking an extraordinarily long amount of time.</p> <p>Tamura Jones wrote a program that creates bigger and bigger GEDCOM files doubling in the number of individuals each time. Each was a power of 2 and he calls that power a Fan Value. <a href="http://www.tamurajones.net/SomeGEDCOMFanValues.xhtml">He then tested various GEDCOM checking programs.</a></p> <p>Behold's Fan Value was found to be 19, meaning it was able to load 2^19 = 524,288 people, but it couldn't load 2^20 = 1,048,576 people. Currently, Behold's limited because it loads everything into memory and for that many people, it uses up the entire 2 GB address space that 32-bit Windows allows. </p> <p>The next set of changes I'll be working on will include saving the data to a disk file with much less in memory. I expect that will increase Behold's fan value to 22 or 23. (4 million or 8 million people). Not too long after that, I'll be creating a 64-bit version of Behold, and that might be able to increase the fan value several more, which will then be constrained by how fast Behold can load the data, rather than by memory. </p> General Discussion http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=111#post-329 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 02:22:16 GMT ericjames 329@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>Does Behold have a limit on the number of individuals in a gedcom that Behold can process? </p> General Discussion http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=81#post-328 Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:29:47 GMT brett 328@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>Louis<br /> Thanks for the work and also going over previous posts prior to Vs 1 release. Keep up the good work. You must be heading towards the -30C time of the year, as we are already up to+28C here. Think we bypassed spring this year.<br /> Brett </p> Feature Suggestions http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=81#post-327 Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:33:53 GMT lkessler 327@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>It's two years later and just prior to Version 1.0 release, and I was revisiting some of the Behold forum posts. This one caught me. Why wasn't I using the default text viewer?</p> <p>At the time of Brett's post, Behold always loaded text files using notepad. After his post, I added an ability to specify the text viewer to use. But no, I wasn't using the default viewer. </p> <p>To my surprise, the default text viewer is not easy to figure out. You can messily search the registry yourself (ugh!!) or else you need an existing file to pass to a special Windows function to get it. My trouble was that I was trying to open .log or .ged files using the default .txt reader. Eventually I figured out the workaround. That is to pass Behold's readme.txt file to the Windows function to get the text reader, and if that doesn't work, then just use notepad.exe.</p> <p>Good enough and eliminates an unneeded form in Behold that was defining the text reader. </p> <p>A StackOverflow question I asked that provided various techniques to help find this is at:<br /> <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2577213/how-can-i-get-the-name-of-the-program-associated-with-a-file-extension-using-del" rel="nofollow">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2577213/how-can-i-get-the-name-of-the-program-associated-with-a-file-extension-using-del</a> </p> Feature Suggestions http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=103#post-319 Sat, 06 Aug 2011 05:57:25 GMT lkessler 319@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>Jerry,</p> <p>It will soon be technically possible, since the next version of my programming language Delphi will allow for Android development.</p> <p>But it won't be soon. I need to get to Version 2 of Behold (with editing) first before I consider other platforms. Once Version 2 is out, I'll look again at all the possibilities, and take user wants into account to decide on the future direction. </p> <p>Louis </p> Questions and Answers http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=103#post-318 Sat, 06 Aug 2011 05:38:25 GMT jerocis 318@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>Louis,<br /> Are there any plans for an Android tablet version of behold on the horizon?<br /> Jerry Kocis </p> Questions and Answers http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=89#post-303 Mon, 25 Apr 2011 04:29:50 GMT lkessler 303@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>David:</p> <p>I'm sorry if you were somehow misled into thinking that Behold was currently a full genealogy editor. I wish I was there already, but that's planned for Version 2. Currently, Behold is only a viewer. The next step will be Version 1.1 which will save to GEDCOM and to its own project file. Then will come the editing. </p> <p>Please be patient and come along for the ride. Once I get it all together, the result will be amazing. Like you say: "very easy to amend information quickly". I think it will change the way genealogists work. </p> <p>I'm working to get there as fast as I can. I know it's still not fast enough for me and everyone else, but I'm trying.</p> <p>Version 1.0 will be out shortly.</p> <p>Louis </p> Questions and Answers http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=89#post-302 Mon, 25 Apr 2011 02:20:01 GMT davide 302@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>I have come across your program and I'm very interested in what the program may or may not be able to do. I have downloaded the evaluation Beta and imported/exported the appropriate GEDCOM file from my original Family Tree for Windows. I have noticed that it is very easy to amend information quickly, however, when I saved the changes and re-opened the file that I belived was changed, the changes had not been taken. </p> Questions and Answers http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=88#post-301 Fri, 18 Mar 2011 03:05:19 GMT lkessler 301@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>Doug,</p> <p>Yes, that's it. The checkmark is to show only the selected tags or to show all the tags. You can also use the menu View -&gt; Selected Tags / All Tags. </p> <p>Don't forget, you can choose which tags you want displayed by selecting them on the Organize -&gt; Tags page. </p> <p>Louis </p> Questions and Answers http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=88#post-300 Fri, 18 Mar 2011 01:51:02 GMT dougvl 300@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>Oops. I found it!<br /> It's the check mark icon whose tool tip says "Selected/All Tags."<br /> That cuts the number of pages of my report in half!</p> <p>Doug </p> Questions and Answers http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=88#post-298 Fri, 18 Mar 2011 01:05:58 GMT dougvl 298@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>I'd like to leave out the lines in the everything report that start with "Unique ID", Surname", "Given Name", "Person ID", and "Change".<br /> I'd like to give the report to relatives, and those items just add confusion to the output for them. And me. They are the items shown in lighter type than the rest of the entries.</p> <p>Is there a way to do this?</p> <p>Thanks,</p> <p>Doug </p> Questions and Answers http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=87#post-295 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 06:17:34 GMT lkessler 295@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>I've now added the ability to show just Descendants of the selected families into version 0.99.18 of Behold. There is a "D" button on the toolbar to quickly select this option. </p> Questions and Answers http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=87#post-294 Fri, 31 Dec 2010 05:46:17 GMT lkessler 294@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>That's sadly funny. 5 years of development, and Behold can't do that.</p> <p>On the Organize -&gt; Numbering page, in the "Order Individuals / Within Families" drop down box, I can add an option that says "Only Descendants". This shouldn't be too difficult to implement, since that is the same as "Up to Ancestors" but stopping at the selected family instead of continuing up all their ancestors.</p> <p>Thanks for pointing that out. I'll try to get it in before the next release. </p> Questions and Answers http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=87#post-293 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:19:13 GMT jfbouquelle 293@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>I would like a report showing only the descendants of a chosen individual.<br /> My everything report shows all the descendants of all the earliest ancestors of the chosen individual.<br /> Is it possible to show only the descendants of this individual? </p> Questions and Answers http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=86#post-292 Sun, 30 May 2010 16:15:01 GMT lkessler 292@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>Thanks. I confirm this problem and it does happen when 125% is set. I'll try to fix it. </p> Report a Problem http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=86#post-291 Sun, 30 May 2010 10:16:51 GMT cjs 291@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>using version 99.9 and attempting to update to 99.1 using the "new version available" menu bar item the resulting box would appear to be cut short with no update button visible. this may be because my W7 Display is set to 125% in the control panel. </p> Report a Problem http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=84#post-290 Fri, 28 May 2010 22:40:52 GMT lkessler 290@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>What version did you have? A couple of the older versions had a bug in the update procedure.</p> <p>Try simply going to the Behold Download page and simply reinstall the program right on top of your current version.</p> <p>Louis </p> Report a Problem http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=85#post-289 Fri, 28 May 2010 22:37:16 GMT lkessler 289@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>I believe that version had a bug in the update routine.</p> <p>Just go to the Behold Download page and re-install the new version right on top of the old one. </p> <p>Louis </p> Questions and Answers http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=85#post-288 Fri, 28 May 2010 20:38:35 GMT witsend 288@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>I have Version 0.98.9c alpha, 03 Jun 2007.<br /> After the newsletter yesterday I attempted to upgrade directly from the program to the 0.99.10 beta version but the pop up box continues to tell me I already have the latest version. Am I doing something wrong? </p> Questions and Answers http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=84#post-287 Fri, 28 May 2010 16:41:56 GMT sdwarrix 287@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>I tried to update and get the message "File access denied." </p> Report a Problem http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=83#post-286 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:41:56 GMT lkessler 286@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>Hi Will,</p> <p>At this point, Behold only will generate the report for viewing. It really doesn't have the whole report in memory, but just the page you are looking at and a few on either side. Yes, it does allow you to edit right on the report, but that is not saved anywhere. </p> <p>Even so, Behold should NOT be hanging on you. That would be a bug that I need to fix. Unfortunately I'm trying but I can't make it happen from your description of the problem. Is this from the latest version or an earlier? The latest version is: 0.99.5 beta, 15 Jan 2010.</p> <p>I will be adding full editing in Version 2.0, but first I'm working to getting Version 1.0 out and then 1.1 and 1.2 where I will implement saving of files (required before editing). Please see my <a href="http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/future.php">Future Plans page</a> for all those details.</p> <p>Louis </p> Report a Problem