Re: Gedcom.pm 1.17 released

On 12/29/2012 5:26 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Really!
>
> As some of you appear to have noticed, I've been a little busy this year
> and haven't found much time work with Gedcom.pm.  I apologise for that.
> In order to make amends to a degree I have spent some time in the last
> few of days closing all the bugs reported in both github and RT, adding
> some extra features, and I have just released Gedcom.pm 1.17.
>
> The notable improvements include better handling of adding notes,
> support for UTF-8 and the addition of a grammar for 5.5.1.
>
> 5.5.1 is only 13 years old and is designated as a draft standard.  Its
> title page says "It must not be used for programming of genealogical
> software while in draft."  So the standard may change markedly between
> this draft and the (no doubt imminent) final version.  As such the 5.5.1
> grammar is included for the early adopters.  Caveat emptor!
>
> When I first designed Gedcom.pm I made it so that multiple grammars
> could be used.  Now there are multiple grammars.  How prescient I was!
>
> Although I have worked through all the tickets on github and RT, I have
> no doubt missed matters which have been reported elsewhere.  If there is
> anything which needs attention, please feel free to open a ticket on
> github.
>
> Enjoy 1.17.
>

Hi Paul,

This is Awesome! Thanks!

I have not used Gedcom in years, but I found this site:
http://www.nantuckethistoricalassociation.net/bgr/BGR-o/p1.htm

Which would be useful to anyone having ancestors that lived in 
Nantucket, MA during the early colonial years, but I digress :)

What I noticed was that the data way nicely tag in the HTML so I am 
writing a parser to read the HTML can generate a Gedcom file. I have the 
basics working, but I have to do more work on it to fix bugs and collect 
more of the data than I current am. I'm side tracked with work at the 
moment so it is on hold. When I'm done it will have generated a 40K+ 
person Gedcom file. This should be able able to create a gedcom from any 
"Second Site" generated website assuming it is similar to the link 
above. Or you can ask the site owner for a copy of the gedcom :), but 
this seemed like a worth challenge at the time.

Thanks again for all you work and continued support.

-Steve