Steve Hayes wrote: > It seems that one has to print huge numbers of family group sheets and > type them all in by hand. > Depending on how a particular site presents the data it may be possible to write a program to process the family group sheet. I found it easy enough to do that for some FamilySearch data. My immediate target was XML; I haven't tried writing a stylesheet to generate Gedcom from XML but I'd expect it to be feasible. -- Ian The Hotmail address is my spam-bin. Real mail address is iang at austonley org uk

On 3/6/2013 6:15 AM, Ian Goddard wrote:> Steve Hayes wrote: >> It seems that one has to print huge numbers of family group sheets and >> type them all in by hand. >> > > Depending on how a particular site presents the data it may be possible to write a program to > process the family group sheet. I found it easy enough to do that for some FamilySearch data. My > immediate target was XML; I haven't tried writing a stylesheet to generate Gedcom from XML but I'd > expect it to be feasible. > I've written programs to slog through the web pages and download whole trees, then convert to Gedcom, but it is a terrible programming pain. I've done this with very large trees ... for example, that of Prince William, a very very large tree. Doug McDonald

On Wed, 06 Mar 2013 12:15:19 +0000, Ian Goddard <goddai01@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: >Steve Hayes wrote: >> It seems that one has to print huge numbers of family group sheets and >> type them all in by hand. >> > >Depending on how a particular site presents the data it may be possible >to write a program to process the family group sheet. I found it easy >enough to do that for some FamilySearch data. My immediate target was >XML; I haven't tried writing a stylesheet to generate Gedcom from XML >but I'd expect it to be feasible. What do you do with the XML files? I assume that means that none of them do allow you to download a Gedcom file? -- Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk

On Wed, 06 Mar 2013 14:50:12 +0200, Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote: >On Wed, 06 Mar 2013 12:15:19 +0000, Ian Goddard <goddai01@hotmail.co.uk> >wrote: > >>Steve Hayes wrote: >>> It seems that one has to print huge numbers of family group sheets and >>> type them all in by hand. >>> >> >>Depending on how a particular site presents the data it may be possible >>to write a program to process the family group sheet. I found it easy >>enough to do that for some FamilySearch data. My immediate target was >>XML; I haven't tried writing a stylesheet to generate Gedcom from XML >>but I'd expect it to be feasible. > >What do you do with the XML files? > >I assume that means that none of them do allow you to download a Gedcom file? Steve, The fairly new Rootsmagic site allows the owner to include a GEDCOM for download, if he wishes to do so. (I chose not to include one). Here's a link to my data on their site: http://my.rootsmagic.com/CRHoffpauir/

Steve Hayes wrote: > On Wed, 06 Mar 2013 12:15:19 +0000, Ian Goddard <goddai01@hotmail.co.uk> > wrote: > >> Steve Hayes wrote: >>> It seems that one has to print huge numbers of family group sheets and >>> type them all in by hand. >>> >> >> Depending on how a particular site presents the data it may be possible >> to write a program to process the family group sheet. I found it easy >> enough to do that for some FamilySearch data. My immediate target was >> XML; I haven't tried writing a stylesheet to generate Gedcom from XML >> but I'd expect it to be feasible. > > What do you do with the XML files? > Transform it into Gramps XML. > I assume that means that none of them do allow you to download a Gedcom file? > All it means is that FS no longer do that. I can't speak for any of the other sites, I haven't tried them. -- Ian The Hotmail address is my spam-bin. Real mail address is iang at austonley org uk