ged2gwb - Create a GeneWeb database from a GEDCOM file

ged2gwb [ <ged> ] [ options ]

ged2gwb creates a starter database for use by GeneWeb , from a GEDCOM file.

The primary documentation of ged2gwb is in the HTML documentation, which you can find in the documentation directory (/usr/share/doc/geneweb on Debian systems).

Please look there for complete and up-to-date documentation.

-help

command-line help

-o <file>

output database (default: a.gwb)

-f

Remove database if already existing

-log <file>

Redirect log trace to this file.

-lf

- Lowercase first names -

Convert first names to lowercase letters, with initials in uppercase.

-ls

- Lowercase surnames -

Convert surnames to lowercase letters, with initials in uppercase. Try to keep lowercase particles.

-us

- Uppercase surnames -

Convert surnames to uppercase letters.

-fne be

- First names enclosed -

When creating a person, if the GEDCOM first name part holds a part between 'b' (any character) and 'e' (any character), it is considered to be the usual first name: e.g. -fne '""' or -fne "()".

-efn

- Extract first names -

When creating a person, if the GEDCOM first name part holds several names, the first of this names becomes the person "first name" and the complete GEDCOM first name part a "first name alias".

-no_efn

- Dont extract first names - [default]

Cancels the previous option.

-epn

- Extract public names - [default] When creating a person, if the GEDCOM first name part looks like a public name, i.e. holds:

* a number or a roman number, supposed to be a number of a nobility title,

* one of the words: "der", "den", "die", "el", "le", "la", "the", supposed to be the beginning of a qualifier, then the GEDCOM first name part becomes the person "public name" and its first word his "first name".

-no_epn

Cancels the previous option.

-no_pit

- No public if titles -

Do not consider persons having titles as public

-tnd

- Try negative dates -

Set negative dates when inconsistency (e.g. birth after death)

-no_nd

- No negative dates -

Don't interpret a year preceded by a minus sign as a negative year

-udi x-y

- Undefined death interval -

Set the interval for persons whose death part is undefined:

- if before x years, they are considered as alive

- if after y year, they are considered as death

- between x and y year, they are considered as "don't know"

Default x is 80 and y is 120

-uin

- Untreated in notes -

Put untreated GEDCOM tags in notes

-ds

- Default source -

Set the source field for persons and families without source data

-dates_dm

Interpret months-numbered dates as day/month/year

-dates_md

Interpret months-numbered dates as month/day/year

-charset [ANSEL|ASCII|MSDOS]

- charset decoding -

Force given charset decoding, overriding the possible setting in GEDCOM