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

[John L. <ge...@tq...>]

John,

Excellent news that gedcoms can be processed and returned. Very useful.

1/ Do you handle prefix/suffix? FTM has this horribly confused.

2/ Do you handle relationship of child to each parent. I think that Legacy 
handles this now.

3/ FTM is able to handle some "BETWEEN" date formats that Legacy cannot 
(eg, when the detail on one side is different than on the other, eg, 
"between 1 jan 1800 and 1809".

4/ Events and custom events are a challenge. Can you handle event comments 
and event notes? FTM as you note puts all of that in a PLAC tag ... I would 
want to be able to decide where to place it.

5/ I have some custom events - I may wish to parse their PLAC tag between 
place, comment and note.

Yes, I would like to see the other conversion routines that you might have.

Thanks,

john.

At 04:32 PM 3/18/2005, John Finlay wrote:
>Hi John,
>
> > Can you point me to a description of what munging it does to FTM
>gedcoms?
> >
>
>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?
> >
>
>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
>
>=============================
>John Finlay
>PhpGedView Project Manager
>ya...@us...