GRAMPS’ Development Musings

January 4, 2006

If you are curious about the development behind GRAMPS, a genealogy software program for Linux/BSD/etc. systems, and about possible future features, this posting: Festive Musings, is right up your alley. It’s an in-depth look at some of the things one of the developers would like to add to a future version, including discussion of 3rd-party plug-ins.

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Legacy Family Tree Tips - Importing Files

December 17, 2005

Jim Terry of Millenia Corporation (makers of Legacy Family Tree) wrote a short guide for the Global Gazette (Canada) about importing files into Legacy Family Tree. He mentions importing from several specific genealogy applications, and so this could be of some help if you are trading GEDCOMs and other genealogy data with other members of your family that may not use the same software.

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Forays into genealogy data modelling I and II

October 24, 2005

Leif Biberg Kristensen, in the usenet group, soc.genealogy.computing (google.com), has written about a project that they are currently working entitled Forays into genealogy data modelling I and II :

I have written a couple of articles about the migration of my data from a TMG database to a full-fledged SQL RDBMS. The project is still in progress, and I’ll probably continue to write about this stuff on my homesite as long as I’m working on it. Don’t hold your breath for a finished application, though, unless someone with guts are stepping in to do all the coding for me