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On 7/26/2011 1:33 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: > On 7/26/2011 12:02 PM, Mike Hamilton wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> To me, the great advantage of the GEDCOM format is that every program can >> (or should) read and export it. Although the format may have long >> passed its >> use-by >> date, it still remains the lingua franca. >> >> I would much rather initially receive a plain vanilla, *valid* GEDCOM >> from a >> newly found umpteenth cousin than a file in some weird and wonderful >> proprietary format. Bells and whistles are all very nice, but the >> conversion >> effort required is often painful. >> >> Ron writes "if there is any compilation of what extras you'd like >> GEDCOM to >> include, tell me." >> >> OK: my wish would be for validate() to perform a very picky and fussy >> "lint". As the docs say of validate(), "this performs a number of >> consistency checks, but could do even more". >> >> The best GEDCOM validator I know of is Tim Forsythe's VGed 3.02 (see >> http://ancestorsnow.blogspot.com/2011/07/vged.html). >> >> - Mike >> > > There was a program LifeLines, which still seems to be hanging around on > source forge, that had the ability to write reports, see: > > ftp://ftp.cac.psu.edu/pub/genealogy/lines/reports/INDEX.html > > There were some very good reports that analyzed the GEDCOM data and > reported strange things like name mismatches, births after a parent died > or when the parents were too young are some examples I can remember of > the top of my head. > > I believe there is a convertor or interpreter that will allow these to > run perl-gedcom. > > I really like this fundamental idea of creating your own sanity checks > and/or adding them to an existing set of checks. > > I don't remember the details of this but it should be easy to find again > if you are interested. Its been a few (more than a few?) years since I > have had time to work on my genealogy, but I hope to again in the near > future. > > -Steve As a matter of fact the convertor is lines2perl (google it) and here are a few reports that I wrote and converted: http://swoodbridge.com/Genealogy/lifelines/ -SteveThread Previous | Thread Next