Re: Problems with importing GEDCOM file
Bret Busby <[email protected]>
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On 13/5/23 22:51, [email protected] wrote: > WikiTree separates given & middle names. > > > Because the GEDCOM 5.5.1 standard format does not support this, they > have a custom "_MIDN" field. But rather than write the standard format > for "GIVN" (with extra data in custom fields to disambiguate how to > parse the concatenated "NAME" data), the WikiTree export omits the > middle name data from the "GIVN" pre-parsed field. > > > This creates a conflict. > > > Another user wrote up how to do a post-process to convert the WikiTree > dialect of GEDCOM into standard format: > > https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1038205/wikitree-gedcom-exports-and-lost-middle-names-solved <https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1038205/wikitree-gedcom-exports-and-lost-middle-names-solved> > Thank you for alerting me to that. I have subsequently, posted a query there, asking whether, after three years after the problem with the non-compliance with the GEDCOM standard, resulting in the corrupted GEDCOM files being exported, was raised, the problem would be fixed, to make the files exported, GEDCOM files, that would be compliant with the GEDCOM standard. Apart from the problems caused by the exported files being corrupt, I strongly believe that where something is purported to be compliant with a standard, it should, necessarily, be compliant with that standard. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) .............. -- Gramps-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-users https://gramps-project.org