From: Don A. <dal...@us...> - 2001-10-13 16:37:30
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I'm trying to gauge the demand for LDS features in gramps. Most commercial tools have some degree of support for these features. For those of you who are not familiar, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (usually known as the Mormans) is a church in the United States that places high value on genealogy. They have some of the most extensive records in the world and are the leaders in the US when dealing with genealogy. I believe that they created the GEDCOM format. I have not looked in depth at the extensions that are needed, so obviously, I don't yet fully understand the needs. From glancing through the GEDCOM specification, it appears that gramps will need to be extended to keep track of special "ordinances". I haven't had a chance to see if these ordinances would fit into the current event structure. So, what I guess what I am trying to ask is: 1) How soon are these features needed? 2) Is there someone out there who uses these features, and who can make sure that I implement them correctly? -- Don Allingham dal...@us... GPG/PGP Public Key at http://members.home.net/donaldallingham/dallingham.key |
From: Pat E. <pa...@ne...> - 2001-10-15 09:55:18
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On 13 Oct 2001, Don Allingham wrote: > I'm trying to gauge the demand for LDS features in gramps. Most > commercial tools have some degree of support for these features. I'd certainly be interested in seeing this support (and in trying to help add it, though I'm not much of a programmer -- especially in Python). I can probably help most in answering questions about what kind of support would need to be added. -pate > > For those of you who are not familiar, the Church of Jesus Christ of > Latter-day Saints (usually known as the Mormans) is a church in the > United States that places high value on genealogy. They have some of the > most extensive records in the world and are the leaders in the US when > dealing with genealogy. I believe that they created the GEDCOM format. > > I have not looked in depth at the extensions that are needed, so > obviously, I don't yet fully understand the needs. From glancing through > the GEDCOM specification, it appears that gramps will need to be > extended to keep track of special "ordinances". I haven't had a chance > to see if these ordinances would fit into the current event structure. > > So, what I guess what I am trying to ask is: > > 1) How soon are these features needed? > 2) Is there someone out there who uses these features, and who can make > sure that I implement them correctly? > > |