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GEDCOM is a standard for exchanging genealogical data.
I've found parsers written in
C perl Ruby and even Factor but none so far written in Python. The closest I've come is the file _GedcomParse.py from the GRAMPS project, but that is so full of references...
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A few years ago I wrote a simplistic GEDCOM to XML translator in Python.
I found that dealing with the GEDCOM data in an XML format was much no matter which option you used.
As part of a larger project.
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Does anyone know of a good class to read in .ged files
Gedcom is a file format that is used to store genealogical information.
My goal is to write something that would let me import a ged file and export a .dot file for graphviz so that I can make a visual...
Started by Crash893 on
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On the upside, the format looks to be pretty straightforward.
I'd be fairly surprised if there was a C# reader for this format available on the web, given that it's a fairly specialized format.
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Curious gedcoms please tell me how they work Often when you go into someones site you see a tag asking if you want to download a gedcom.
This is one of the areas I know nothing about.
Has anyone downloaded a gedcom could they give me some feedback as ...
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However, if you download a gedcom into your family history program then you can normally ....
A gedcom Program just like a .doc file will only open in Word.
Of file extensions, a jpg is a picture, a doc is a Word file, a txt is a text file .
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I'm not familiar with Gedcom, but I suspect that it is a proprietary format
that Visio will not recognize directly.
You can check to see what formats the Gedcom program will allow you to save
/ export to. Visio may be able to read something that Gedcom...
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And to add my two pence, the format is text based and the last rev ( #6)
also has a an XML....
, 11 Feb 2009 23:57:58 GMT, barbway@online.microsoft.com (Barb
GEDCOM is the standard:2up6p450iflkk0v40152o0d0sl26cmr8j1@news.gradwell.net...
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On Mon, 18 May 2009 19:11:28 +0100, "Nick Russell" <nicks40@gmail.com
Dear All
Just downloaded my gedcom file - someone wanted a bit - and it gives me a
list of invalid lines within the gedcom file, all of these being invalid
dates or date formats...
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On Mon, 18 May 2009 18:21:30 +0000 (UTC), Joe Makowiec <makowiec@invalid.invalid
GEDCOM://improve-usenet.org/ On Mon, 18 May 2009 19:25:17 +0100, Terry Wells <terrywells@csi.com
A Gedcom it allow you to
read the file but....
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Hello, perl-gedcom!
I'm trying to design a WWW social networking site and would like to be
able to model relationships between people, including genealogical
relationships. STFW, I came across Gedcom.pm and this mailing list.
Following the subscription...
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For the GEDCOM
format, though at the moment its on the back-burner while I build a replacement
for the SQL
If you want to consider an internal format for your data, I would recommend
against using GEDCOM as it is too ....
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I wish to be able to clearly and succinctly identify the sources,
and logic used to establish a parent child relationship. This is not
usually as simple as citing an individual source, but for me often
requires establishing a "network" of interlocking...
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Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Web: http://hayesfam.bravehost.comOn Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:10:09 -0700 (PDT), Steve Hayes <hayesmstw@hotmail.com
GEDCOM does to GEDCOM, the routine....
For the GEDCOM
format.
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I'd like to detect when a date in my GEDCOM file contains a year and a
month but no day, such as "FEB 1978".
I've written a small test (below) that you can run with "prove
datebug.t". The answer I'm looking for is the proper $condition for
the...
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It is hoped the verbose still is more clear
To: Stephen Woodbridge
Cc: List - Gedcom
Subject: Re: detecting GEDCOM dates with a year and a month.
Person 8 and 5 are deliberate errors in the data format.
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On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:13:49 +0100, "D. Spencer Hines" <panther@excelsior.net
Yes...
Merging GEDCOMS and/or blending a GEDCOM into a pre-existing database are
very bad ideas and generally result in a colossal mess, for various reasons.
On the ...
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But, as it is, his data is presented in a horse and buggy 19th Century
format, which.
As a
"Serious Researcher" he decide.
And make all
of HIS genealogical data available on the web and via Gedcom.
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On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:41:15 +0200, Steve Hayes <hayesmstw@hotmail.com
I've just been trying to exchange GEDCOM files with a correspondent, so we can
compare notes, and encountered unexpected problems.
He sent me a GEDCOM file, and I tried to ...
Started by Steve Hayes on
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Generally, genealogy programs will indicate near the top of a
GEDCOM which." <n2kvs@cfl.rr.com
========....
), Joe Makowiec <makowiec@invalid.invalid
Open the GEDCOM file in a text editor - notepad will do if you're on
Windows.
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