Afew months ago, as I neared completion of the GEDCOM loading module within RetroGen, I stopped developing while I pondered over a dilemna. My initial goal, somewhat noble, was to develop a genealogy program using old programming language and database support to support the entire breath of the GEDCOM 5.5 standard. As my coding neared …
RetroGen – August update
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.
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, …
