Re: Ada and GEDCOM [off-topic]

[Wesley Groleau <wesgroleau@myrealbox.com>]

>>I'm just not happy with the assumptions that all genealogy
>>programs force on us.  Even the most flexible and "open-minded"
>>(LifeLines) wasn't flexible enough for me, and so I now just
>>edit my GEDCOM with a plain text editor (pass it through LifeLines
>>or something solely for error checking).
> 
> You sound quite experienced.  What are the limitations of Reunion ?

OK, you got me.  I've tried most of the _free_ ones and
several of the not-free ones on Mac and Windows.  And I've
looked at reviews and manuals for others.

I have tried neither TMG nor Reunion.  From what I can rememberm
the best (if I had the money) might have been GenP from Australia
and then TMG.  Can't remember much about Reunion now.

Actually, even GEDCOM imposes more assumptions than I'd prefer.

The model of genealogy IMHO should be in events, relationships,
and evidence.  GEDCOM (and because of GEDCOM, genealogy programs)
makes the model individuals and families--and it defines a family
as exactly two persons of different genders with biological
children.  Adoption, foster care, relationships other than parent
have to be represented by clumsy kludges patched into the standard
after its basic structure was securely founded on FAM and INDI

But for sharing/publishing data, for the time being, we're stuck
with GEDCOM.

-- 
Wes Groleau
When all you have is a perl, everything looks like a string.