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Brett: I'm still making my last few changes to the event sorting. I have to put the children in birthdate order, and the spouses into marriage order. I'll be embedding them into the right place (date-wise) amongst all the events of an individual. Doing so just makes adding the consistency checking very ...

Thanks for that, Brett. You'll be interested to know that as a result of your earlier email to me, I reinvestigated consistency checking. With the addition of true date parsing and my implementation of that in version 1.0.1, this is now quite possible, and the setup of Behold makes it rather do-able. If I ...

Andy, Then it must be that FTM must have special code to fix the Member Tree "mess". I notice amongst my 683 test files, I only have 2 that indicate they are from Ancestry.com Family Trees. I'll take a look at those and I'll download a few more from Google using the search: "sour ancestry.com family ...

Andy, The organization and indentation within an individual is something I haven't looked at in a few years and it's worth revisiting. My original concept was to start each Level 1 event/fact on each line. Then all the information that pertains to the event/fact would be in the same paragraph. ...

Brett: The comment is still "awaiting moderation". This is the weekend, and they may only work on weekdays, so we have to give them until tomorrow at least. Louis

The official standard is GEDCOM 5.5. The de facto standard is GEDCOM 5.5.1. There is in fact very little difference between the two. In 5.5.1, the BLOB tag was removed and 8 tags were added, including some important ones like EMAIL, WWW, LATI and LONG, and a few extra syntactical changes were added that ...

Brett: Developers will need a good reason to change before they would. A new standard will have to be not too difficult to implement. It will have to be able to still work without requiring modifications to their current database. And it will have to offer them something that is so important they can't ...

Bob: Very interesting. I guess our samples really are representative of the current date state. - Louis

Brett: I don't think the reason for fail will be lack of developer involvement. Tom Wetmore who developed Lifelines, was involved in GenTech and is now developing DeadEnds has been a major contributor. Michael Martineau of Family Pursuit has also been a contributor. Then we've had involvement from ...

GeneJ: I don't mind (and maybe even like) giving a single event, e.g. Birth with the "preferred" place and date attached to it, then including all the evidence and alternative dates within the notes or subtags of the event. But the GEDCOM standard strongly recommends including conflicting events ...