From: Wes Groleau <wwgrol@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>
Subject: Re: Remarriages, how common is it? [off-topic]
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 11:09:35 -0500
Date: 2001-10-23T11:09:35-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BD5963F.79A68CE0@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: GygB7.39696$ev2.46804@www.newsranger.com
Ted Dennison wrote:
> In article <3BD590E9.DF0A8D31@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>, Wes Groleau says...
> >In my mind the biggest flaw in GEDCOM is the assumption
> >that every person is a child of exactly one family and
>
> That would be a bit of a problem. How would it handle adoptions? Presumably
> you'd like to track back both the genetic and adoptive lines. I'm not a
> geneology person myself, so perhaps I'm wrong about what they care about.
That's one of the many reasons I consider it a flaw.
And I'm not alone. Technically, the GEDCOM syntax
would allow being in multiple families, but the semantics
don't and most software packages obey the semantics better
than they obey the syntax.
--
Wes Groleau
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-23 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-22 22:08 Genealogy Software Larry Hazel
2001-10-22 22:26 ` Wes Groleau
2001-10-23 14:20 ` Larry Hazel
2001-10-23 14:54 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-22 22:44 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-23 0:53 ` Bruce or Tracy Jacobs
2001-10-23 6:54 ` Remarriages, how common is it? Petter Fryklund
2001-10-23 15:46 ` Remarriages, how common is it? [off-topic] Wes Groleau
2001-10-23 16:04 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-23 16:09 ` Wes Groleau [this message]
2001-10-24 10:59 ` SV: " Bror Johansson
2001-10-23 15:40 ` Genealogy Software [off-topic] Wes Groleau
2001-10-24 13:20 ` Arthur Evans Jr
2001-10-24 15:09 ` Wes Groleau
2001-10-23 13:34 ` Genealogy Software Ted Dennison
2001-10-24 13:07 ` Arthur Evans Jr
2001-10-24 13:31 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-23 17:24 ` Genealogy Software then slightly [OFF TOPIC] Martin Dowie
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