Louis Kessler’s Behold Blog     The Behold User Forum

Personally, I am totally against "full" tie-ups with any of the online data providers in the way RootsMagic has integrated TreeShare. It simply brings a new set of issues that corrupt 'normal' practice by forcing the introduction of an alternative set of 'standards' or practices created by the individual data ...

Quote: "I’ve never seen a Quaker date" Put simply, Quaker dates do not use month names and usually appear in Quaker records in the following format: 3 vi 1790, which equates to 3 August 1790, i.e. Quakers don't (didn't) accept the general use of month names except for September to December as the months ...

Louis/Colin, Was reading through the message threads and came across the mention of Family Historian, my main Family History 'database' program since 2003. As you are aware, Family Historian saves its data to a GEDCOM file rather than a true database (As does GEDitCOM on Mac OS X). However, the 'dialect' of ...

As there seems to have been very little comment/confirmation that Behold can be made to run successfully on Mac OS X I thought I would add my own findings: 1. Installing and running Behold on a Virtual Windows System (Windows 7/8.1 on Parallels and VirtualBox) works flawlessly; and also 2. Installation on a ...

Louis, One must always be careful when having a 'rant', or criticising what may outwardly appear to be lengthy periods of inactivity: 1. FHISO - Length of time with no outward appearance of activity (from the lack of website updates) = 14 months 2. Behold - Length of time since last software update = 15 ...