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GEDCOM, an acronym for GEnealogical Data COMmunication.

A proprietary and open de facto specification for exchanging genealogical data between different genealogy software. (From Wikipedia)

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Social networking website- usage of GEDCOM in it

i have to develop one social networking website. i have to follow gedcom standards for that. someone told me you have to take care at time of database designing if you are going to use GEDCOM. so please anybody can help me out for material i can…
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Please critique my class

I've taken a few school classes along time ago on and to be honest i never really understood the concept of classes. I recently "got back on the horse" and have been trying to find some real world application for creating a class. you may have seen…
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Regular Expression to Extract Text Bounded by '/'

I need to a regular expression to extract names from a GEDCOM file. The format is: Fred Joseph /Smith/ Where the text bounded by the / is the surname and the Fred Joseph are the forenames. The complication is that the surname could be at any place…
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What database structure to use to store GEDCOM information?

What database structure to use to store GEDCOM information?
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Rails gedcom gem, i get "stack level too deep" exception if i load a gedcom file

i'm workling on a family tree analizer with Ruby on Rails. To parse a gedcom file i installed this gem: https://github.com/rbur004/gedcom The documentation is kinda sporadic.. In the rails console, i entered g = Gedcom.file("family.ged",…
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GEDCOM File import export from web application

i am working on a social networking site having facility to create Family Tree. there are so many sites which supports family tree import/export from GEDCOM File. i have to implement family tree with gedcom standards. i also have to design my…
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Best way to Find which cell of string array contins text

I have a block of text that im taking from a Gedcom (Here and Here) File The text is flat and basically broken into "nodes" I am splitting each node on the \r char and thus subdividing it into each of its parts( amount of "lines" can vary) I know…
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How do I make correct Gedcom Files?

What would the correct way to format the gedcom file be because my current way is not working for more info I am using https://www.familyecho.com/?page=api to generate the images. When I add a second family it does not work anymore. But it works…
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Best Method to Combine Gedcom files?

I have collected numerous GEDCOM files (50-60) from various family members and others. I'm now retired and now want to merge/extract these files into one entity. There are obviously duplicates, some with more information than others. I am trying to…
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How to read a GEDCOM file with Julia?

I have a GEDCOM file exported from Ancestral Quest with my family tree, it is quite extense, and I would like to do some analysis on it. I want to construct a tree structure, and explore it recursively. Is there any library that could read the…
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How can I tell Vim to fold GEDCOM files?

GEDCOM files start with a level number 0,1,2, etc., e.g. 2 DATE 10 SEP 1843. The GEDCOM syntax file does not support folding. It should take only a couple of colon commands to tell Vim that it should automatically assign the level number to the…
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How to convert text in ANSEL to UTF-8 in php

I have a php script working with GEDCOM files, which are often using ANSEL encoding. I did not found any solution to convert them properly to UTF-8 charset. Is there a way using for example iconv or I have to make my own solution as suggested here…
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Regular expression for end of line

I am trying to parse a GEDCOM file using regular expressions and am almost there, but the expression grabs the next line of the text for lines where there is optional text at the end of line. Each record should be a single line. This is an extract…
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How would one create a Drupal-based Genealogy Application?

I want to use Drupal for building a Genealogy application. The difficulty, I see, is in allowing users to upload a gedcom file and for it to be parsed and then from that data, various Drupal nodes would be created. Nodes in Drupal are content…
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how to do gedcom import with minimal database roundtrip. what is best practice for this kind of development

In My current application, I need to import users from gedcom file. these users may exist in my registered users or i need to create one registered user for the same. now gedcom file contain s many information e.g. PersonalDetails,Addresses,…
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