Re: [Gramps-devel] Update re Gedcom import for The Master Genealogist

[<ben...@ug...>]

Hi Leif, Anne

I looked at your 'application', http://solumslekt.org/note_en.php

I see you use TMG, like many people in belgium too, soo a way to import 
without
data loss into GRAMPS from TMG, would be a great feature.

Concerning your application, I see it is a website based on a mysql database.
One of the feature requests for gramps is to make the website size 
smaller. The
only possible way I see for this is using a database type of approach, so
making an sql database, and feeding the pages as people ask them.

So Leif, do you share your code for the site you made? Is it available? You
think it practical to export data from GRAMPS into the SQL you made for use as
a website (I suppose you export TMG data to SQL now)? Or are your goals very
different (I don't speak Norwegian)?

Benny


Quoting "Leif B. Kristensen" <le...@so...>:

> On Tuesday 13. February 2007 11:40, ann...@co... wrote:
>
>> Partly because of the problems sensibly parsing what is in the gedcom,
>> and partly because of what isn't in the gedcom, I've decided not to go
>> that route for getting my data out of TMG and into Gramps. I've
>> started reverse-engineering the TMG database format, based on
>> references others on this list have suggested, and some I've found
>> myself. My plan is to write a simple(?!) program that directly reads
>> the TMG V6 FoxPro files, and generates a Gramps xml file that can
>> then be imported into Gramps. I've done enough on this already to be
>> confident it is a practical approach, though I suspect it will be a
>> while before I have something that will achieve my aim.
>
> Anne,
> don't be afraid to ask me if you need help with the file dump.
>
> I too played with the idea of making a transfer from TMG to Gramps, but
> ended up writing my own application instead. There are some major
> incompatibilities between the TMG and the Gramps model. As you're
> probably aware of, TMG has no database representation of a Family
> entity, but generates this on the fly during a GEDCOM export. You will
> need to recreate this step somehow if you're going to make a Gramps
> import.
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