Year: 2014

The GEDCOM parser of Genealogie Online needed a rewrite. The code base had grown out of proportion, resulting in inefficient code and cumbersome maintenance. A big difference between the start of coding the GEDCOM parser and now is the number of GEDCOM files available: nearly 7 thousand. This gave me the opportunity to do some…

The GEDCOM 5.5 standard is described in a PDF document prepared by the Family History Department of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints dated 2 January 1996 (which in two days is 19 years ago). When you Google for the GEDCOM 5.5 grammar you usually end up on the HTML version by…

When genealogical data from a record is displayed on a website of an archive, the names are usually (web)links, so you can easily and quickly search for that name. Open Archives shows that a record can be linked to many different sources of information, so the records become enriched. Links to search actions Open Archives…