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Is Updating the GEDCOM Standard Necessary? - Blog comment by lkessler - 23 Oct 2023
Bob:
Personally, I would prefer a 25 year old standard that is used by 98% of the intended audience, than an "updated" standard that obviously doesn't have enough advantages to be able to attract more than a handful of developers to implement after more than 2 years.
So something's not working.
If ...
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Reading GEDCOM – A Guide for Programmers - Blog comment by lkessler - 22 Oct 2023
Bob (Coret):
Main reason is that 5.5.1 is supported by 98% of genealogy vendors, whereas the number who have implemented some form of 7.0 can be counted on one hand. There are many reasons why I don't think 7.0 will ever take hold. See my newest blog post Is Updating the GEDCOM Standard Necessary?
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Ancestral Loops - Blog comment by lkessler - 8 Jun 2023
jandrea: Well it is a recursive procedure. The problem is that if you have loops, then the recursive procedure is infinite. So you have to figure out how to stop. The normal stopping method in a recursive procedure is to mark a node (person) as "visited" once they've been checked so that you don't process them ...
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Converting Base Pairs to Centimorgans - Blog comment by lkessler - 13 Jun 2022
Thanks EJ, for your confirmation about the issue. I came up with a new idea that I'm going to try out, which may result in my next blog post.
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Double Match Triangulator, Version 5.0 - Blog comment by lkessler - 3 Jun 2022
Thank you k1w1. The link is now fixed.
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Translating a Book at No Cost with Passable Results - Blog comment by lkessler - 20 Apr 2022
Elaine: I think in my case, the text was so small that the Hebrew OCR had trouble recognizing the characters. That's why scanning at 600 dpi helped. I suspect if the text would have been larger, the translations would have been much better. It also was difficult for Google, Bing and Yandex to differentiate ...
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Translating a Book at No Cost with Passable Results - Blog comment by lkessler - 13 Apr 2022
Steve: Thanks, but I don't have an affiliate link for Shotbox. If you want to purchase a Shotbox, you might still be able to take advantage of their RootsTech special: https://rootstech.shotbox.me/
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Your DNA Raw Data May Have Changed - Blog comment by lkessler - 21 Nov 2021
Yinwang: I compared both by RSID and by position. In one comparison between two files, for example, I noted to myself that 299 RSIDs had changed at the same position, and that 3 RSIDs had different positions. But mentioning that in the article would have been off-topic and would only have complicated what I ...
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Comparing Raw Data from 5 DNA Testing Companies - Blog comment by lkessler - 10 Nov 2021
tsturg: Yes. See my blog post from 10 Apr 2020: Determining the Accuracy of DNA Tests: https://www.beholdgenealogy.com/blog/?p=3305 - I've now added this into my "followups" at the end of the article.
Can Artificial Intelligence Read Russian Handwriting? - Blog comment by lkessler - 3 Mar 2024