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Scott Lee is a professional genealogist and retired software engineering consultant who helps genealogists understand technology through his Genealogy Tech Talks.
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Scott Lee is a professional genealogist, retired software engineering consultant, and technical trainer. He helped develop the GEDCOM 5.5 standard, created RosettaCalendar.com for converting between ancient and modern calendars, and his date software runs in more than half of all websites worldwide. Today, he helps genealogists understand technology through his Genealogy Tech Talks.
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Scott Lee is a professional genealogist, retired software engineering consultant, and technical trainer. Working with the LDS Church, he helped develop the GEDCOM 5.5 standard by fixing its syntax, making the specification provably unambiguous, and correcting long-standing issues in date representations. He created RosettaCalendar.com, a tool for converting between ancient and modern calendars, and his open-source date-manipulation library, sdncal20, powers date and calendar functions in more than half of all websites worldwide. Today, he helps genealogists understand technology through his Genealogy Tech Talks.
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Scott Lee is a professional genealogist, retired software engineering consultant, and technical trainer who has researched his family history since 1979. He led an international technical training program for new hires from around the world. Working with the LDS Church, he helped develop the GEDCOM 5.5 standard by fixing its syntax, making the specification provably unambiguous, and correcting long-standing issues in date representations. He created RosettaCalendar.com, a tool for converting between ancient and modern calendars, and his open-source date-manipulation library, sdncal20, powers date and calendar functions in more than half of all websites worldwide. Today, he develops genealogical software, explores deep-learning neural networks, and lectures on genealogy and technology. In his spare time, he writes science fiction, follows the latest developments in astrophysics, studies ancient calendars, and continues to explore his own family history.
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Scott Lee is a professional genealogist, retired software engineering consultant, and technical trainer who has researched his family history since 1979. In the 1980s, Scott led an international technical training program, training new hires from around the world on computer graphics hardware and software. Later, he launched a career as a software engineering consultant, where he continued to deliver in-depth training to clients. These experiences sharpened his ability to make complex technologies clear and approachable, a hallmark of his Genealogy Tech Talks today. He worked with the LDS Church to develop the GEDCOM 5.5 standard for exchanging genealogical data between software programs, fixing its syntax, making the specification provably unambiguous and corrected long-standing issues in date representations. Scott created RosettaCalendar.com, a tool used by historians and genealogists to convert among ancient and modern calendar systems. His open-source date-manipulation library, sdncal20, powers date and calendar functions in more than half of all websites worldwide. Today, he develops genealogical software, explores deep-learning neural networks, and lectures on genealogy and technology. In his spare time, he writes science fiction, follows the latest developments in astrophysics, studies ancient calendars, and continues to explore his own family history.
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Scott Lee is a professional genealogist, retired software engineering consultant, and technical trainer who has researched his family history since 1979. He combines lifelong interests in genealogy and technology to help researchers understand and apply modern tools through his Genealogy Tech Talks presentations.
In the 1980s, Scott Lee led the international technical training program at the Fortune 500 firm Tektronix, training new hires from around the world on computer graphics hardware, peripherals, and all supporting software packages. Later, he launched a career as a software engineering consultant, where he continued to deliver in-depth training to Fortune 500 clients. These experiences sharpened his ability to make complex technologies clear and approachable, a hallmark of his Genealogy Tech Talks today.
In the mid-1990s, Scott worked with the LDS Church to develop the GEDCOM 5.5 standard for exchanging genealogical data between software programs. He authored the chapter defining the syntax, making the specification provably unambiguous and easier for software to interpret. His work corrected long-standing issues in date representation and helped standardize data exchange across genealogical applications.
Scott’s interest in ancient calendars led him to create RosettaCalendar.com, a tool used by historians and genealogists to convert among ancient and modern calendar systems. His open-source date-manipulation library, sdncal20, powers date and calendar functions in more than half of all websites worldwide.
A native of Little Rock, Arkansas, Scott’s career took him to Indiana, Oregon, North Carolina, and New York City before he and his wife, Deirdre, returned home in retirement. Today, he develops software for genealogical applications, explores deep-learning neural networks, and lectures on genealogy and technology. In his spare time, he writes science fiction, follows the latest developments in astrophysics, studies ancient calendars, develops open-source software, and—true to his roots—continues to explore his own family history.
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Scott Lee is a professional genealogist, retired software engineering consultant, and technical trainer who has researched his family history since 1979. He combines lifelong interests in genealogy and technology to help researchers understand and apply modern tools through his Genealogy Tech Talks presentations. He is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists and the Genealogical Speakers Guild. He has served as an officer in several genealogical societies, including president of the Arkansas Genealogical Society.
Scott began his career at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), where he developed software for a fully automated calorimeter at the Arkansas Children’s Hospital. The system measured the caloric requirements of severely burned patients, ensuring they received the necessary nutrition to meet the tremendous metabolic demands of healing, as burn victims lose heat rapidly through evaporation at their wounds. As best he and his colleagues can determine, this was the first fully automated calorimeter in the United States. This experience began his interest in reliable software.
In 1979, Scott joined Tektronix, a Fortune 500 leader in computer graphics and instrumentation. There, he led the company’s global technical training program, teaching new hires worldwide about computer graphics hardware, peripherals, and supporting software. His experience in explaining complex systems led him into a consulting career focused on improving software reliability and engineering practices at large technology companies.
As a consultant, Scott redesigned software build systems at organizations such as Data General, EMC, MySQL, IBM, and Bloomberg, helping them modernize and streamline development processes. His training emphasized writing testable code—software designed from the start to be verified automatically—leading to more effective testing, fewer bugs, and measurably more reliable software.
In the mid-1990s, Scott advised the Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in developing the GEDCOM 5.5 standard for exchanging genealogical data between software programs. He authored the chapter defining the syntax, making the specification provably unambiguous and easier for software to interpret. His work corrected long-standing issues in date representation and helped standardize data exchange across genealogical applications.
Scott’s interest in ancient calendars and algorithms for manipulating dates inspired him to create RosettaCalendar.com, a tool used by historians and genealogists to convert among ancient and modern calendar systems. His open-source date-manipulation library, sdncal20, underlies PHP’s date functions and powers calendar operations in more than half of all websites worldwide.
A native of Little Rock, Arkansas, Scott’s career took him to Indiana, Oregon, North Carolina, and New York City before he and his wife, Deirdre, returned home in retirement. Today, he develops software for genealogical applications, explores deep-learning neural networks, and lectures on genealogy and technology. In his spare time, he writes science fiction, follows the latest developments in astrophysics, studies ancient calendars, develops open-source software, and—true to his roots—continues to explore his own family history.