RE: [Phpgedview-talk] Some general questions from a newbie

[John F. <Joh...@by...>]

Hi John,

> Can you point me to a description of what munging it does to FTM
gedcoms?
>=20

I don't have a description written up already, but I can give you an
idea here.  FTM is really bad about putting data in the PLAC field when
it shouldn't be there.  For example, FTM will export a SSN record like
this:
1 SSN
2 PLAC 123-45-6789

This would put all of the SSNs and other personal descriptor tags in the
place data.  PGV will clean this up during the import so that it looks
like this:
1 SSN 123-45-6789

The script will also do some date validation.  For example it will
convert dates in the form 2005-01-01 to their valid gedcom dates 01 JAN
2005.

There are some other general cleanup things that it will do.

> Is this module accessible so that I could take the fixed up gedcom and
> download it? Or even update it for my personal requirements?
>=20

The PGV files that do this are validategedcom.php and
function_tools.php.  Yes, you could upload a file to PGV to have it
cleanup the gedcom, and then download the file again.  Yes you could
update the scripts to do other cleanup routines.

> I am trying to move some fairly large family files from FTM to Legacy,
and
> I need to do some processing over and above what special FTM to Legacy
> conversions that Legacy will do on an gedcom import.

I have also written other gedcom process scripts for PGV that are not
included in the project to do things like convert source citations or
name records.  I can send you some of these if you want to use them as
starting points.

--John

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John Finlay
PhpGedView Project Manager
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