Shown below are some screenshots of Retrogen (running on a Macbook Air with Ubuntu 20.04 and programmed using GnuCOBOL) using a publicly available family tree for President Kennedy (via Ian Davis GitHub). This GEDCOM file was uploaded to Ancestry and subsequently, this tree was exported from Ancestry with some minor data cleansing. The first screenshot …
Retrogen – Ancestry GEDCOM size issues.
Ancestry is doing some excellent work with data stored in the exported GEDCOM files from their website but they appear to be deviating from the GEDCOM standard. Record Size One interesting issue I came across is that the record size varies between a maximum of 255 characters when that record has a 4 character tag …
Retrogen – Ancestry GEDCOM export
During my time developing Retrogen, I have been studying the GEDCOM file exported from Ancestry. I am troubled since I believe there are issues within the GEDCOM file meaning it isn't a true representation of my family tree data or at least, my understanding of what should be exported. One potential issue appears to relate …
GnuCOBOL Functions
I am adding this post to provide some insights into the coding structures required for defining and calling custom functions with GnuCOBOL. 000001 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. 000002 PROGRAM-ID. TEST. 000003* Purpose of this program is demonstrate the use of functions 000004* by defining a simple function to increment a number. 000005 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. 000006 CONFIGURATION SECTION. …
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