Behold
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| Behold | |
|---|---|
| Information | |
| Publisher / Author | Louis KESSLER |
| Version | 0.98.9.6 alpha |
| Date | 13/02/2008 |
| Creation Date | 20/05/2005 |
| Operating System | Windows |
| License | Commercial |
| Category | Genealogy Programs |
| Langages | English |
| Prices | €15.22 - License |
| Links | Website Product Page Downloads FAQ Forums |
| System Requirements | |
| Trial Version | No Trial. |
Description
There are hundreds of computer programs for genealogy out there. They are all quite fine programs. Most of them have some very unique and useful features. You may have tried several and now use one or even two of them.
But if you're like me, then after working for a long time entering your data into one of these genealogy programs, you not only feel that you've lost track of what's in there, but you find the program and its reports very limiting with regards to helping you do more research.
Features
- Behold is built around its innovative Everything Report. This report puts all your data in front of you where you can see it in a clear and organized manner. Its many useful index views, explorer-like contents, and extensive use of hyperlinks and modern navigational tools make it easy to find the data you want. It has extended GEDCOM compliance meaning that every bit of your family data is available to you.
- Behold includes everyone. It organizes separate family groups into their own sections, and provides hyperlinks between the same people in different sections (in case cousins marry cousins, etc.). It also lets you specify exactly how the families should be organized and who you want the primary people in each group to be. But often, the default Auto Organize may be good enough for you.
- Behold's lists all notes, no matter how large, just where you would expect to find them. You'll never again have to search for the right report to display your notes.
- Behold's default Everything Report may be good enough for you. Or you can easily customize how each event and every GEDCOM tag is displayed. Then simply pick which ones you do or don't want to display. Save your Organize settings into Behold files and reapply them at any time to any set of data.
- Behold's Everything Report lets you to scan all of your data quickly. Mistakes will just pop out at you: speeelllling errors; bad dates; inconsistent place names; the right info for the wrong person. You'll probably find many mistakes in your data the very first time you look at the Everything Report. Then after you fix them, Behold's Everything Report will be very useful to help keep your data clean and error-free.
- Behold prints all or part of its Everything Report in an extremely compact yet easy-to-read and easier-to-use format. It is designed so that all your information about 10,000 people can be put into a binder that you can take with you whenever you go to do research. Having a paper copy as a backup or to give to someone is not a bad idea either.
- Behold makes this easy to do. You can choose, group, and order the families however you want just by picking the individuals of interest. Within families, Behold can display people by in Ancestral Order (top-down) or Ahnentafel order (bottom-up). Instantly include or exclude families related through marriage. Leave out everyone else, or include them - it is your choice.
- Behold has a unique Auto Organize function that will figure out who are the primary individuals in the family and will build the Everything Report around them. You will quickly and easily be able to see how anyone's family fits together, and how much of it they have researched.
- Behold gives you the very simple Find tool you are used to in most Windows programs. Because everything is in the Everything Report, there is no way you can miss anything. With one keypress or click, you can search forward or backward or use the search history to redo your past searches.
- Behold will get whatever data it can from any file with data that resembles data in GEDCOM format. It can piece together relationships from the links in the file and figure out everything that can be figured out.
- Behold can open and work with multiple GEDCOMs at the same time. The data remains separate but the Indexes are integrated for maximum usefulness.
- A simple and recognizable user interface is a top priority for Behold. It looks just like most of your standard Windows programs. All major windows are modeless, letting you to switch windows and continue working without having to close the active one first.
- Don't just carry your data with you. Take Behold with you as well. Behold will allow you to export itself to any other drive. You don't have to install it on other computers to use it. It will work directly off the drive.
- Don't bother merging their data with yours. Behold's "Virtual Merging" lets you to load in multiple GEDCOMs and datasets. You can identify people who are the same, and Behold will display the data together for you in its Everything Report.
- If you keep their data separate, then there's no problem. Just replace their old data with their new one. If they have a few new people to match up, it will only take a couple of minutes.
- Most programs make it nearly impossible to select some of the data for export. Behold will take whatever data you've included in the Everything Report and export that to a GEDCOM file. This will let you to use Behold's Organize functions to select whom to include, and then output a GEDCOM file including only those people and the supporting data about them. Everything you see in the Everything Report will be exported. Simple!
- I can't believe nobody else has thought of this. Everyone knows how to use a word processor. You enter your data right into your final product and it is WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get). With Behold, you will efficiently type right into the Everything Report. That's it. It's done. No forms to slow you down. No forms to limit what you can enter. Behold will include an extensive set of customizable abbreviations, shortcuts and tools to help you enter your data many times faster than you ever thought you could.
- Behold will have a "current source" window always visible at the bottom of the Everything Report window. You first enter what source you are working with, and then all the data you enter in the Everything Report will automatically be linked to that source. This will make it easy to document everything about a source, or all the information received from one e-mail, etc.
- Behold will have very advanced sourcing capabilities and full capability to handle GEDCOM sourcing. You can number your sources your own way: B14, SmiJ82a, File 1 - page 13, Photo953, ... whatever! And Behold's "smart numbering" will always sort them properly. Sources will be ordered and listed by your Reference number/Abbreviation to make it easy to ensure your source documentation matches your source documents. Finally, a program that will work the way you want it to, and not the other way around.
- Behold's implementation of Task Panes will be a real life saver. Here you will be able to directly access instant help about how to handle and enter any and every type of information that you might encounter.
- Behold currently can translate most accented characters. But the real solution is a full implementation of Unicode, the standard used for word processing programs around the world. Then all your data, in multiple languages, will display and index correctly. This change will take place following Version 2.0. Then multi-language editing will become something practical and easy for genealogists to do.