"Wes Groleau" <groleau+news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:ELmXk.1318$us6.289@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Ian Goddard wrote:
>> Let's start by devising a better data structure than GEDCOM.
>>
>> .... GEDCOM is set up to handle a
>> particular name format used in one culture at one time. You're using
it
>> to handle stuff from all over the world and over a time duration of at
>> least a millennium.
>
> That's not it's only flaw, but it's like Windows or VHS or C++
> Sure, there are far better available, but vendors won't sell
> what few customers will buy. And customers won't buy what
> few vendors will sell. Splice loop here.
>
> My beefs with GEDCOM are many. How about some little ones:
>
> - No one can have more than one nickname.
>
> - You can't get the date of death from one source and the place
> from another. Every source applies to the whole event.
>
> - The fact that Joe is the child of Fred & Mary needs no evidence,
> indeed, a source citation on a CHIL is not allowed.
>
> And yet, the genealogical world makes it hard for me to use anything
else.
> I guess I can be thankful it's not worse.
>
>> Yes, there would be good value in sites like this but we need a far
>> better foundation on which to build them.
>
> Sites like what? Are you responding to his .sig ?
>
> --
> Wes Groleau
>
> Change is inevitable. We need to learn that "inevitable" is
> neither a synonym for "good" nor for "bad."
> -- WWG
> - No one can have more than one nickname.
0 INDI @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
NAME John /Jones/
2 NICK Jack
1 NAME
2 NICK Johnny
1 NAME
2 NICK Jon-Jon
....
> - You can't get the date of death from one source and the place
> from another. Every source applies to the whole event.
1 DEAT
1 SOUR @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
DATE 1/2/1234
2 PLAC Anywhere
3 SOUR @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
SOUR
1 TITL This is the primary source
1 NOTE Source of death date
0 @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
SOUR
1 TITL This is another source
1 NOTE Source of death place
> - The fact that Joe is the child of Fred & Mary needs no evidence,
> indeed, a source citation on a CHIL is not allowed.
0 INDI @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
FAMC @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PEDI birth
3 NOTE There is a source for this
4 SOUR @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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