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Brett: The last few things I'm doing in this version are significant, so the next version will be called 1.1. Still a few nuances I'm deciding on whether to handle or not. Here's one example. Your mother divorces your father. But a few years later they remarry. That's usually two different FAM records. ...

Thanks Bart. I'll try.

Tamura is right. Bloatedness adds overhead in execution time and transfer time. If a standard is used for everything and that everything becomes 4 times bigger than it need be, then it's a waste. When online databases of millions of names are created, it will slow things down from 4 to 16 times. That will slow ...

Everyone makes lists of what's wrong with GEDCOM. There's never anything in those lists that couldn't be handled relatively easily with an updated GEDCOM. Ryan Heaton claims that GEDCOM X has resolved a lot of the deficiencies. But have you seen any lists of what's right with GEDCOM? I've delved deeply into ...

Brett said: "... 'extras' could be accomodated through updates." Absolutely! GEDCOM was excellent at the time. If they had not stopped updating it, we'd have a really fine standard today. I'm sure it would have everything everyone is looking for and data would be transferring almost flawlessly between ...

Sorry for going too far on the technical side. Yes, the goal of everyone is to transfer their data seamlessly between programs which - new standard or not - is never going to happen. It's impossible to get a standard agreed on that is complete enough to include everything needed in an unambiguous way that ...

Brett: I don't know what FTM thought. But they did put that feature in their 2008 version. So someone there thought it was a good idea. It seems to be unchanged in the 2012 version. So if any users are suggesting improvements to the timeline, they are not being listened to. Louis

Herb: Mac's are in the plans. See my post from September: I Purchased Delphi XE2 Today. And I've now updated my Future Plans page and for now have placed Macs (and other platforms) as Version 2.1 Louis

Brett, Yes, of course you're correct and a 1900 birth could be in the 1901 records. So I should have been more precise and instead of "looked through all 1900 records", I should have said: "looked through all records containing a birth in 1900". Louis

Shauna, Thanks for your comment. Your reviews of the other cruises makes me want to go even more. I'm sure Alan is working to make each cruise better than the last. I hope this ship is smoke-free. And I too look forward to meeting you and hearing some of your talks. I see your portfolio includes a few talks ...