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Jill: We haven't started researching Sydney at all yet, with it being so far in the future, but I'm sure we'll be wanting some ideas. My wife and I will especially be interested in shows and special events, and if we could see something at the Opera House, that would be fantastic. Louis

meliasz: You'll be able to store whatever dates you want. If the person's death date is input as 100 years before their birth date, then so be it - but Behold will by default show the warning to remind you, so you won't forget to fix it later. Louis

Tim: (Sorry about the primitive markup allowed in my comments.) Then you are not translating that back into HTML tags and then the person will see the HTML and tags and not what was intended to be rendered. I think that is correct. Notes were never intended in GEDCOM to include markup, and I agree and ...

Stanczyk: I read your blog posts about your impressions of RootsTech and your writings about the GEDCOM standard with much interest. Too bad you hadn't heard of me or Behold prior to the conference, or I would have made a point of meeting with you. Louis

Stanczyk: There are as many "answers" as there are people. We each have our opnions. That's why a standard is so tough - because everyone has to compromise. The difference with SQL is that enhancements can often be added to specific implementations without worry. Usually the SQL code does not get ...

Brett, I think who wins as the future GEDCOM is very much up in the air. There have been dozens of proposals to date that never caught on. And there's several new initiatives now, and each may get to some point of usability, or may not. People don't realize how much time and work it takes to develop a new ...

I intend to keep up with the development of any new standard. I'm involved with BetterGEDCOM and GEDCOMX and am staying up-to-date with all the progress towards a new GEDCOM. Writing the input and output for any new standard is not difficult, and that could be done in not too long a time, maybe a month. But ...

Thanks, Kulath, With the new BetterGEDCOM and now GEDCOM X work being done, I'm trying to stress that they attempt simplicity rather than complicated models attempting to include everything. They attempt to include everything because they think that this will allow the data to be transferred, but by doing so ...

Brett: Thanks for posting this here. If I may add for the readers a few important things that you pointed out to me in your emails to me about this: FTM 2010 could not read this file because it says it is GEDCOM Version 5.5.1 and FTM gave the message: "GEDCOM file must be version 5.5 or greater". Hmmm. ...

Thanks goulooze. Feedback is good. Beer is good, too.