Behold Version 0.98.3 alpha, 05 Mar 2006

Over the weekened, Louis Kessler released Behold version 0.98.3 alpha (5 Mar 2006). This is quite a major release for Behold. Behold is a Windows-based genealogy program that is different from all the others, that allows you to easily see, work with, and use all the family tree information you have gathered.

It can be downloaded here.

New:
* Redesign the data structure to include all linking information between events, people and families. This now handles any INDI and FAM custom structures such as WITN (Witness) tags.

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Behold: Windows 98 and Genealogy Software Development

Louis Kessler, developer of Behold, a Windows genealogy application, brings up an interesting issue about the future of genealogy software development for Windows – namely, should developers still be supporting Windows 98. Other genealogy software developers have had a few issues crop up with Windows 98.

You can discuss this with him and others in this Behold Discussion Forum thread

Behold Version 0.98 alpha (07 Dec 2005)

Louis Kessler has released a new alpha of Behold – this update takes it up to version 0.98 Alpha (07 Dec 2005). Behold is a Windows-based genealogy program that is different from all the others, that allows you to easily see, work with, and use all the family tree information you have gathered.

It can be downloaded here.

What’s New:
* Include the capability to display custom top-level structures that some programs define and the references to them.
* Display GEDCOMs encoded with a UTF character set so that characters display correctly.
* Implement Character Sets for Default, ANSI Standard, Eastern European, Cyrillic, Greek, Turkish, Baltic, Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, Japanese, Korean, Chinese PRC, Chinese Taiwan, Vietnamese, OEM, Mac and Symbol.
* Allow user selection of the Character Set to display and save this with the Behold file.
* Allow the font size to be selected and add a menu item for this.

Improved:

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