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  GedHTree - GEDCOM to HTML, Elegant family tree on the Web
For examples of GedHTree GEDCOM to HTML converter Family Tree output
information for GEDCOM individuals in states, counties, provinces and countries, respectively.
for family tree and family group pages for your GEDCOM family tree.
www.gedhtree.com   (150 words)

  
  GEDCOM - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The current version of the specification is GEDCOM 5.5 which was released on 12 January 1996.
On December 6, 2002 a beta version of GEDCOM 6.0 was released for developers to study and begin to implement in their software.
As a result of the limitations of the GEDCOM format, some genealogy software incorporates the use of proprietary extensions to the GEDCOM format, which are not always recognized by other genealogy programs.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/GEDCOM   (582 words)

  
 Transforming your GEDCOM Files into Web Pages
The GEDCOM standard allows one brand of genealogy software, say Reunion, to successfully share information with another brand of genealogy software, say Family Tree Maker.
GEDCOM files are commonly traded amongst genealogists as both e-mail attachments or on floppy disk.
These pages were created using a small GEDCOM file of only 15 individuals representing only the direct ancestors of one of my great grandfathers (note that by working backward in time from my great grandfather, I have avoided the problem of placing living individuals' personal details on the Internet).
www.oz.net /~markhow/writing/gedcom.htm   (2773 words)

  
 Alles voor GEDCOM
Gedcom Viewer opens a Gedcom format file, exported from your Genealogy program, and displays the full family tree - all on a single screen, even for hundreds of people.
It allows the comparison of 2 Gedcom files side by side, allows both files to be sorted alphabetically by persons names, allows renumbering of the 2nd file so that when records are merged, no conflicts arise.
More programs exist that convert GEDCOM into HTML, but most of them generate web pages that lack proper references to source material and don't present photos, notes etc. Usually it is also quite difficult to get a good overview of the different relations within a family, especially if people are married more often.
users.pandora.be /ivo.gilisen/4gedcom.htm   (2159 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
GEDCOM is provided to foster the sharing of genealogical information and the development of a wide range of inter-operable software products to assist genealogists, historians, and other researchers.
GEDCOM Software Library A library of unrestricted public domain source code, in the C programming language, is available to help reduce the work required to achieve GEDCOM compatibility.
A GEDCOM transmission consists of a sequence of physical records, each of which consists of a sequence of gedcom_lines, all contained in a sequential file or stream of characters.
www.dcs.hull.ac.uk /public/genealogy/gedcom53/gedcom/gedstand.t82   (15421 words)

  
 Is GEDCOM Dead?
While it's a mature specification, the use of GEDCOM by genealogists is not dead.
GEDCOM is an acronym for Genealogical Data Communication.
GEDCOM has been put to a number of uses that its framers did not anticipate.
www.rootsworks.com /genart13.htm   (1443 words)

  
 PhpGedView FAQ - Online genealogy at its best
GEDCOM is an acronym that stands for "GEnealogy Data COMmunication" and is a standard for the exchange of genealogy data between programs.
Each line in the gedcom starts with a number followed by a TAG indicating what kind of information is on that line.
This snippet of Gedcom code says that the GrandpaJones.jpg file is associated with this person and for this person it has the TITL "A title for this picture." The FILE tag is the only required piece and tells where the file was located when it was originally attached to the person.
www.phpgedview.net /faq.php   (5149 words)

  
 GenoPro - GEDCOM Import / Export
Gedcom is a standard file format to share information with different genealogy programs.
If your Gedcom file is too large, you may wish to import only a fragment of it.
To reduce the overlapping, try importing a different portion from the Gedcom file by selecting a different ID and/or a different combination ancestors or descendents.
www.genopro.com /gedcom   (563 words)

  
 Gedcom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The most common criticism is of the test battery s mainly multiple choice gedcom format.
right-angled triangle is when the length gedcom of only the first leg and the hypotenuse.
Homeschooled gedcom students who receive the GED are the main exception to this rule, since.
ged.wist.be /gedcom.html   (1100 words)

  
 GEDCOM
GEDCOM is a file format that allows genealogy files to be opened in any genealogy software program.
If your file extension is not listed, or the program you wish to use is not listed, read and compare two or more of the sets of instructions given.
All of the programs have similar instructions and you will most likely be able to create a GEDCOM file in your program by reading the directions for another program.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~appalachian/GEDCOM/gedcom.html   (619 words)

  
 GEDCOM Programs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
R3GED2FT reads a Roots III generated GEDCOM file and writes a new GEDCOM 5.x file, one that allows more of my Roots III data to be imported into FTMW.
Originally created for use with Gene Stark's GED2HTML as a way to clean GEDCOM's of living individuals before publishing to the web, it is capable of preparing a GEDCOM for any conversion program on the market.
The final step GEDClean performs for you is to run through your GEDCOM file, removing all the details about individuals on the list of living individuals you made in the second step.
help.surnameweb.org /gedprog.htm   (673 words)

  
 Cole-Johns GEDCOM Site
This will decompress to "bray.ged" {466,256 bytes}, a GEDCOM file containing 1,963 individuals who were the ancestors and descendants (and their spouses) of Henry BRAY, christened 22 Jul 1683, London, England; died 11 Feb 1794 in Chatham Co., NC.
This will decompress to "brock.ged" {692,314 bytes}, a GEDCOM file containing 2,994 individuals who were the ancestors and descendants (and their spouses) of Reuben BROCK, born circa 1724 in Ireland; raised a family in Orange County, NC.
This will decompress to "janney.ged" {600,825 bytes}, a GEDCOM file containing 2,278 individuals who are known descendants (and their spouses) of Randall JANNEY, I, (born circa 1526/30; died January 1595 at Wilmslow, Cheshire, England) and wife Alice WILKERSON (buried 5 January 1598 at Prestbury, England).
www.thecolefamily.com /hobby/gedcom.htm   (1634 words)

  
 GED-GEN: GEDCOM to HTML Converter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
GED-GEN is short for "GEDCOM Web Page GENerator." It is a program that generates web pages from a GEDCOM genealogy data file.
GEDCOM files must use the Windows ANSI character set or the ANSEL character set.
Times for large GEDCOM files are slower on slower processors with less memory (e.g., 9 minutes for 12,000 individuals on a 166MHz computer).
home.hiwaay.net /~mvoisin/gedgen.html   (677 words)

  
 EOGN: Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
GEDCOM is an abbreviation that stands for GEnealogy Data COMmunications.
Translating from one program’s database to GEDCOM is sort of the same as translating from one spoken language to another.
Despite all the shortcomings, GEDCOM is still a simple and somewhat effective method of transferring genealogy data from one program to another.
www.eogn.com /archives/news0219.htm   (5520 words)

  
 GEDCOM 5.5 Torture Test Files
To test importing, read the files using an application's GEDCOM importing option and then compare the decoded data to the actual data in the file.
The files were checked with the GEDCOM utility GEDCHK.EXE and with the grammar checking feature of GEDitCOM.
The two options are to use the various tools that directly convert a GEDCOM file to a web site or to import the files into any genealogy application that has web-site creation options.
www.geditcom.com /gedcom.html   (620 words)

  
 Ancestry.com - GEDCOMs & Other Genealogical Files
The intent is that the owner can extract information in part or in full from his or her GSP, and the recipient can import the data into his or her program and not have to re-key the data.
When you receive a GEDCOM file, you will be able to recognize it as such by its file extension.
I've submitted GEDCOM files to the World Family Tree, the extensive collection built by Brøderbund and sold on CD-ROMs, and have been contacted by a number of genealogists.
www.ancestry.com /learn/learning/gedcoms.htm   (1603 words)

  
 GEDCOM to DAML   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
GEDCOM is the de facto standard for exchanging genealogical data.
A good freeware program capable of creating, reading, modifying, and writing GEDCOM is Personal Ancestral File (PAF), downloadable via the Order/Download Products link here.
royal92.ged is a public domain GEDCOM file containing information on 3010 individuals and 1422 families of European royalty.
www.daml.org /2001/01/gedcom   (104 words)

  
 The Genealogy Anonymous FTP Site: /pub/genealogy/gedcom
GEDCOM to Tiny Tafel (83097 bytes, Jul 19, 1994)
Insert/remove GEDCOM commas (51670 bytes, Mar 1, 1995)
GEDCOM for LINKAGES (41060 bytes, Jul 19, 1994)
ftp.cac.psu.edu /genealogy/gedcom/INDEX.html   (442 words)

  
 Family Tree of the Jewish People
The GEDCOM you are submitting represents your personal research efforts into your own family connections.
JewishGen, Inc. may reproduce, compile, and freely distribute, the information in your submitted GEDCOM file to the other two organizations who are party to a two-year agreement signed in October 1999.
Because of the concerns for privacy of living persons, any data displayed on the Internet will not contain the date and place of birth for any person for whom a death date is not included, nor will source notes be displayed.
www.jewishgen.org /gedcom   (562 words)

  
 Cyndi's List - GEDCOM: GEnealogical Data COMmunications
GEDCOM is a generic, database format designed to allow users to share family history database files between differing genealogy software programs.
GEDCOM to HTML conversion program with a high degree of customization available in the output pages with regard to the amount of information presented and its layout.
Ged2Csv is a Windows utility that converts a gedcom file to a series of comma-delimited files suitable for importing into a database such as MySQL.
www.cyndislist.com /gedcom.htm   (1400 words)

  
 GenServ - How to make a GEDCOM file (GEDMAKE) !
While this standard is still being debated, the first GEDCOM files were being created which allowed for the virtual instantaneous importation of large or small amounts of Genealogical data into various software programs.
GEDCOM file can be read by the import utility of these same software packages, allowing you to merge your data with the data of someone else.
While new standards for GEDCOM files are being worked on, most software manufactures have incorporated GEDCOM standards which are acceptable to most other products.
www.genserv.com /gs/genged1.htm   (2505 words)

  
 D'Alsace en Lorraine
Un fichier au format GEDCOM est une base relationnelle d'informations généalogiques mise en forme de fichier séquentiel.
Dans un fichier GEDCOM, la référence utilisée dans chaque "ligne adresse" doit être unique: on ne peut pas retrouver la même référence utilisée comme adresse dans deux lignes différentes, mais plusieurs pointeurs (donc plusieurs "lignes pointeurs") peuvent renvoyer à cette "ligne adresse".
Les fichiers GEDCOM qui contiennent des caractères accentués utilisent souvent le jeu de caractères ANSEL, le plus couramment utilisé dans les catalogues de bibliothèques.
www.robert-weinland.org /gedc.php   (2397 words)

  
 GedHTree GEDCOM to HTML converter FAQs
When GedHTree is used for processing a GEDCOM file it first deletes all files that are in the ghtout subdirectory on your disk drive before generating the new files.
When you generate your GEDCOM file be sure and choose an output option (ANSI, UTF, etc.) so that the special characters in your genealogy database will be output to the GEDCOM file.
The GEDCOM file you are processing should be on the same disk drive as gedhtree.exe.
www.gedhtree.com /faqs.htm   (922 words)

  
 GEDCOM Definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A GEDCOM file contains information on a family in a specific format.
Generally a GEDCOM file is produced by entering data (information) into a genealogical database program and then outputing the results in the GEDCOM format.
The GEDCOM file format is simply a very structured ASCII format.
www.studerhistory.org /content/GcomDef.shtml   (116 words)

  
 What is a GEDCOM file   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The GEDCOM, the GEnealogical Data COMmunication standard proposed by the Family History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons), and adopted by many developers and users of genealogical software.
The purpose of GEDCOM is to simplify the exchange of computerized historical and genealogical information.
A GEDCOM file is a file saved on your hard disk.
www.ged4web.com /gedcom.htm   (239 words)

  
 Cover Pages: GEDCOM XML Specification Supports XML Encoding of Genealogical Data.
GEDCOM (Genealogical Data Communication) is widely considered the de facto standard for structured genealogical information, being designed "to provide a flexible, uniform format for exchanging computerized genealogical data." Having evolved over fifteen years, GEDCOM XML uses Unicode instead of the 8-bit ANSEL character set.
An important part of GEDCOM is its ability to link records according to family lineage and other data relationships.
That makes processing GEDCOM from a variety of sources difficult, and where both directions are specified, they may be inconsistent.
xml.coverpages.org /ni2002-12-28-a.html   (673 words)

  
 DTD Tree structure of XHTML 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language
DTD Tree structure of the Gedcom XML DTD generated using Matra
GEDCOM was developed by the Family and Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to provide a flexible, uniform format for exchanging computerized genealogical data.
Matra is a java based XML DTD parser utility.
matra.sourceforge.net /dtdtree/gendtds/gedxml_60_dtdtree.php   (121 words)

  
 American-French Genealogical Society: 25th Anniversary - 5 Generation chart GEDCOM information
A screen should now display Message Export of GEDCOM file is complete and the number of individuals and families exported.
Suggest you import the ged file into a new Family file on your software, and review the information you will be submitting in the GEDCOM file.
In the email with your gedcom please identify the actual name of the person you want as the 1st person of your 5 generation chart.
www.afgs.org /howtogedleg.html   (555 words)

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