The month of July had highs and lows with experimenting with different old terminal types for displaying box drawing graphics from the 1970s to reviewing GEDCOM loading. I was concerned about privacy given some of my earlier posts had genealogy data so these were removed. I was able to find and use other fictitious GEDCOM …
RetroGen – Privacy
Due to privacy concerns, I have removed some posts and tweets with genealogy data. This is unfortunate since some of the features are best shown with larger sets of data.
COBOL on a Mac
If you are thinking about trying out the COBOL programming language and you have a macOS computer, I will outline afew ways to get you started. The first option is to install the last stable version of GnuCOBOL and the second, is to install one of the upcoming versions. I personally used opton 1 initially …
RetroGen – GEDCOM Loading
The RetroGen development is proceeding well, with work complete on individual attributes, text transcriptions for citations and sources, sources for notes and media for submitters. The list of outstanding items is reduced to the following; HEADER; Name of source data, publication date and copyright messaging, transmission time, submission system, language, place and note, INDIVIDUAL; Restrictions, …
