| William H. Magill on 4 Aug 2006 00:16:43 -0000 |
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On 03 Aug, 2006, at 14:22, Malcolm J Harwood wrote: There are a couple of existing web based apps that use the standard GEDCOM The main the main thing to remember about GEDCOM is that it is like some of the most recent IEEE "standards." The definition is so broad that it allows for multiple interpretation and implementation. The biggest benefit from GEDCOM is that it is human readable -- an ASCII export! The biggest danger with GEDCOM is that not all applications export all their data! (And often times the tags used are not what one expects.) Then, on top of that, not all GEDCOM data is imported into other applications. [And far too frequently, neither the export nor import application TELLS you what it is doing.] Whenever you do a GEDCOM export and import you need to make certain that the data you expect shows up in the fields you expect! ... like when using OCR -- you have to carefully PROOFREAD what you have done to make certain that you don't have unexpected results hiding. Being a Mac type, I'm a fan of Reunion. One caveat: On Thursday 03 August 2006 13:13, Randy Schmidt wrote:I also want it web-based because I am a data accessibility On its face, this is a very laudable idea. However, folks who are in the Identity Theft business LOVE public family trees! They can pick up your date of birth and your mother's maiden name with ease! So if you post on the Internet, make certain that you do so with a secure facility that won't get indexed by some search engine and that the pages are password protected. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # Beige G3 [Rev A motherboard - 300 MHz 768 Meg] OS X 10.2.8 # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) [800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg] OS X 10.4.6 # PWS433a [Alpha 21164 Rev 7.2 (EV56)- 64 Meg] Tru64 5.1a # XP1000 [Alpha 21264-3 (EV6) - 256 meg] FreeBSD 5.3 # XP1000 [Alpha 21264-A (EV 6.7) - 384 meg] FreeBSD 5.3 magill@mcgillsociety.org magill@acm.org magill@mac.com whmagill@gmail.com
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