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For questions about the use of GEDCOM files, the de facto standard file format for exchange of genealogical data. GEDCOM is an acronym for GEnealogical Data COMmunication.
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How to architect an SQL database for genealogical data?
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This design is based on accepting a Gedcom file as input and putting the data into a MySQL database.
The facts table is the largest as it contains all the facts about the individual. …
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Identifying root individual in GEDCOM
There is a post today on GitHub answering exactly this question of the Gedcom team link to GitHub post the answer there is exactly as I suggested in my comment above. …
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Automatically marking relatives dead when born more than 100 years ago
As a Gedcom file is just plain text you can easily modify it with a plain text editor such as the free Notepad++. If you do get Notepad++ it also has a free addon Gedcom parser. … Import your gedcom into that program and use its functionality to step through each individual and add a death if appropriate. …
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Free/open software or method to convert PAF file to GEDCOM?
It is written by the authors of PAF and allows PAF import and Gedcom export. …
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False name on birth certificate
I would use the physical record that you have and record her name as what was written on the Birth Certificate and use that as her NAME in the gedcom. … This is what the Gedcom 5.5.1 standard has to say:
NAME_TYPE:= {Size=5:30}
[ aka | birth | immigrant | maiden | married | ]
Indicates the name type, for example the name issued or assumed as an immigrant …
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Pedigree Chart into Spreadsheet from GEDCOM
For instance Family Historian uses gedcom as its file storage method, it has a query tool built in that could create the type of list that you are wanting. …
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Layout tools to print big GEDCOM plus pictures to posters?
There is a free 30 day trial so you can do it for free within the 30 days and it will import your gedcom. …
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Lateral gedcom visualisation with embedded pictures
Family Historian has a diagram for everyone in your gedcom regardless of how they are related and it copes with pedigree collapse. … However, it may not display your images correctly depending on exactly how they are linked in to the gedcom. …
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Gedcom file with Person/Individual containing multiple Places/Residences
Multiple RESI tags are the proper way to do this. If you think about it each is an 'event' in that persons life. They live in 'place 1' when they are born and then in 'place 2' when they leave home an …
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How can I turn a family tree on Geni.com into a printable PDF report?
You can use any of the many Family Tree programmes both free and paid to import your gedcom file to, you will still need to export it as detailed in @Moshe's reply. …
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Strip down a gedcom file
like GedXLate (very old but still works fine) to export minimal data from your Gedcom in to Excel format. … Edit the file in Excel and then use one of the many Excel to Gedcom converters to make the edited file a new Gedcom. …
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Creating GEDCOM diff of all people in one GEDCOM but not another?
One way to automate some of what you want to do would be to use one of the many Gedcom to Excel converters to create two Excel spreadsheets. …
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How to upload a "stripped" GEDCOM to DNA sites
Family Historian has a gedcom export plugin available that has a specific export option for this scenario. …
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Seeking tools to create tree of specific individuals in gedcom
Most FT software allows the export of some or all of the people from a Gedcom file. If your software allows this then select the people for export into a new DNA gedcom. … There may be some online Gedcom editors that allow this too. …
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I uploaded a tree to Ancestry and it has old UID facts. How do I delete them?
A Gedcom file is just plain text so any good text editor can edit it. Notepad++ which is free and also has a gedcom plugin is an excellent choice. … It can do the search and delete your UID facts but ensure that you take all the entries for each UID out of the gedcom there may be more than 1 line to remove per UID. …
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