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 2000-2008 Louis Kessler, All Rights Reserved. Posts by others belong to the people who made them. en Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:56:25 GMT http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=71#post-246 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:31:26 GMT lkessler 246@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>Thanks, Linda.</p> <p>My only concern is that the text size isn't too small for those of us with failing eyesight. I increased the font size one from the original design, and I have tried to make the site scale up in size properly when zooming or changing text size in the browser. </p> <p>But I am extremely happy with the way it turned out.</p> <p>Louis </p> General Discussion http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=71#post-245 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:10:31 GMT brknhrt 245@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>The new site looks great. Very clean look and easy to read. Good Job. </p> General Discussion http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=71#post-244 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:11:47 GMT lkessler 244@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>After about 6 months since I closed the old forum on the old site, the Forum is reopening as this brand new Behold User Forum. I'm very happy with the way it turned out. I hope you like it too. </p> <p>I've copied all your posts from the old forum into it, and your old userids will still work to login to both the Forum and the Blog so you can post your thoughts and questions and comments.</p> <p>I look forward to hearing from you again. :-)</p> <p>Louis </p> General Discussion http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=69#post-240 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:34:57 GMT lkessler 240@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ 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). <br><br>I had hoped at that time to include everything needed to get Microsoft's <qq>Certified for Windows Vista<qq> 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.<br><br>Louis General Discussion http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=70#post-239 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:28:15 GMT lkessler 239@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ Hello Jennifer,<br><br>I had designed Behold to understand multiple sets of parents. Children should show up under both their biological and adopted parents.<br><br>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 <a href="http://www.lkessler.com/behold/futureplans.shtml">Future Plans</a> to "Make sure Behold displays multiple parents appropriately". <br><br>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.<br><br>Louis Questions and Answers http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=70#post-238 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:38:20 GMT Jacksbox4you 238@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ 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?<br><br>Thank you.<br>Jennifer Questions and Answers http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=69#post-237 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:23:57 GMT Jacksbox4you 237@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ 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! General Discussion http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=68#post-236 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:58:06 GMT lkessler 236@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ You're right. It's not just multiple marriages.<br><br>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.<br><br>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. <br><br>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.<br><br>Louis Feature Suggestions http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=68#post-235 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:19:24 GMT sjm1010 235@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ Hi Louis,<br><br>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.<br> Feature Suggestions http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=68#post-234 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:26:36 GMT lkessler 234@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ 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.<br><br>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. <br><br>Louis Feature Suggestions http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=68#post-233 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:11:01 GMT sjm1010 233@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ Louis,<br><br>Okay, this might have been covered already and I was just too lazy to look for it. Say you Feature Suggestions http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=67#post-232 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:13:13 GMT lkessler 232@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ Thanks Steve,<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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. <br><br>What you see now is nothing compared to what Version 2.0 will be. <br><br>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 ...<br><br>Louis<br><br> General Discussion http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=67#post-231 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:34:31 GMT sjm1010 231@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ 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 General Discussion http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=66#post-230 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:31:09 GMT lkessler 230@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ Solution found! The files Tamura and I were using were indeed different.<br><br>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.<br><br>Louis Report a Problem http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=66#post-229 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:20:07 GMT lkessler 229@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ 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.<br> <p>If any of you with Behold are reading this, I'd appreciate your help. If you could <a href="http://www.lkessler.com/behold/lines.ged" target="_blank">download this very simple GEDCOM file</a> and load it into Behold, please see which of the results you get:<br> <p>Do you get Figure 1:<br><br> <img src="http://www.lkessler.com/behold/lenny1.gif" border=0 alt="" width=422 height=77><br> <p>Or do you get Figure 2:<br><br> <img src="http://www.lkessler.com/behold/lenny2.gif" border=0 alt="" width=413 height=114><br> <p>If you could let me know which you get, that may help solve the puzzle. Thanks. Report a Problem http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=62#post-228 Wed, 30 May 2007 20:20:25 GMT lkessler 228@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ 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.<br><br>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. <br><br>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. <br><br>The genealogical word processer of Version 2 is still the ultimate goal. I am as impatient about seeing it as anyone.<br><br>Thanks for your kind words. If you can wait, I don't intend to let you and the other supporters of Behold down. <br><br>Louis Feature Suggestions http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=62#post-227 Wed, 30 May 2007 15:29:35 GMT sjm1010 227@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ 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!!<br><br>Steve Feature Suggestions http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=62#post-226 Wed, 30 May 2007 00:26:12 GMT lkessler 226@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ Yes, I will get rid of that extra indentation. That is a bug. Hopefully the notes will appear nice again after I fix that.<br><br>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. <br><br>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.<br><br>Louis Feature Suggestions http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=62#post-225 Tue, 29 May 2007 21:09:52 GMT sjm1010 225@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ Hi Louis,<br><br>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?<br><br>Steve Feature Suggestions http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=63#post-224 Tue, 29 May 2007 20:04:37 GMT sjm1010 224@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ Just when you think you know everything, you are correct Louis and I have corrected the issue, thank you.<br><br>Steve Questions and Answers http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=62#post-220 Sun, 20 May 2007 12:35:34 GMT lkessler 220@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ Stephen:<br><br>I think I see what you're talking about. Notes that are top-level (GEDCOM Level 1) are formatted into paragraphs.<br><br>But Notes that are level 2 and below are not. An example is a Note that is attached to Birth or Occupation information.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Louis Feature Suggestions http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=63#post-219 Sun, 20 May 2007 12:00:45 GMT lkessler 219@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ Stephen:<br><br>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. <br><br>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".<br><br>RPT_PHRS probably stands for Report Phrase and must be the text that is in the "Person 1" box in the Report Phrases section.<br><br>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.<br><br>Normally you would not want formatting definitions like these to display in Behold. They are not your data. <br><br>Louis Questions and Answers http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=63#post-218 Sat, 19 May 2007 02:20:24 GMT sjm1010 218@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ Hi Louis,<br><br>Wondering if you knew what the following tags stand for? I believe their tag acronyms? HTITL, WTITL, RPT_PHRS,<br><br>Thank you......example below.<br><br>Stephen<br><br><br> <br><br>Family ID is: F54<br>Status: Unmarried 5 Jun 2004<br>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<br>Children: Relationship to Father: Biological. Relationship to Mother: Biological. Dominic Jason PAIVA Questions and Answers http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=62#post-217 Sat, 19 May 2007 02:06:08 GMT sjm1010 217@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ Hi Louis,<br><br>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? <br><br>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. <br><br>This makes the notes appear as if their just one big paragraph, troublesome to read clearly. Is this Beholds way or is it Legacy?<br><br>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. <br><br>If you understand what I just wrote.....your a better man than me!! Thank you.<br><br>Stephen<br><br> Feature Suggestions http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=31#post-216 Wed, 16 May 2007 00:18:06 GMT lkessler 216@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ Thank you David for your ideas.<br><br>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. <br><br>Behold will be introducing a concept I call "Virtual Merging". I discuss it in my <a href="http://www.lkessler.com/behold/behoblog.shtml">Behold Blog post</a> of August 28, 2006. <br><br>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.<br><br>Does that make sense to you?<br><br>Louis Feature Suggestions http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=31#post-215 Tue, 15 May 2007 20:28:05 GMT DavidB 215@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ This is an important concept deserving careful attention. <br><br>When teaching I always advise users to open received GEDCOM files separately rather than a straight addition. Two key reasons: <br>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. <br>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.<br><br>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.) Feature Suggestions http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=61#post-214 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:21:30 GMT lkessler 214@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ 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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Thanks.<br><br>Louis<br><br> Report a Problem http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=61#post-213 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:51:59 GMT waldonj 213@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ 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 Report a Problem http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=55#post-212 Wed, 21 Mar 2007 01:10:49 GMT lkessler 212@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ 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!<br><br>Yet, I still see some places I can squeeze even more out before the Beta release.<br><br>Louis<br> General Discussion http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=59#post-210 Wed, 29 Nov 2006 05:23:51 GMT sjm1010 210@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ 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.<br><br>Thank you! Report a Problem http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=59#post-206 Tue, 28 Nov 2006 20:42:31 GMT lkessler 206@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ Thanks Steve, for pointing this out. <br><br>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. <br><br>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.<br><br>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".<br><br>Louis<br> Report a Problem http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=59#post-204 Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:42:40 GMT sjm1010 204@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ Hi Louis,<br><br>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. <br><br>Ex: Relationship to Father: Biological. Relationship to Mother: Biological. Relationship to Father: Biological. Relationship to Mother: Biological.<br><br>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?<br><br>Thanks Steve Report a Problem http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=56#post-201 Fri, 24 Nov 2006 23:20:57 GMT lkessler 201@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ To everyone: <br><br>I put a very high importance on fixing bugs like this ASAP. Please do not hesitate to report them to me. <br><br>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.<br><br>Louis Report a Problem http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=56#post-200 Fri, 24 Nov 2006 19:31:15 GMT JRichmond 200@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ Louis, your fix was complete. This version now works flawlessly with my data. Thanks.<br><br>John Report a Problem http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=56#post-199 Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:36:25 GMT JRichmond 199@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ 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): <br><br>Access violation @ address 005E0621 in module 'behold.exe.' Read of address 00000000.<br><br>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: <br><br>Cannot find this jump location.<br><br>Hitting the "OK" button makes the box go away, but the hour glass again comes on, and the program is inoperable. <br><br>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. <br><br>Any ideas? Is this a solitary event? <br><br>Any help appreciated! Thanks, <br><br>John Richmond Report a Problem