From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b479e85cddd6bd6a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-07-29 06:27:17 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!wn12feed!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!216.166.71.14!border3.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp.gbronline.com!news.gbronline.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 08:27:14 -0500 Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 08:27:38 -0500 From: Wesley Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@myrealbox.com Organization: Ain't no organization here! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, es-mx, pt-br, fr-ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada and GEDCOM [off-topic] References: <3F25C39D.F91B8346@mchsi.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.117.18.50 X-Trace: sv3-1ixh3LiZ/fA+kzxC6WTd/ZzAaDDhDUvLEdE4Ms8UUa0ZIFrY5C1MjzTBjzl5HtilAaxuiUQxBKTQY4S!mS8nM5NNpFAwxkhplw9KA3XPVU6axXN7Avm5Lst+e8OA9794umg4zUmLRKb5D05KeeN8D0XVg0Rs!1IHs X-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:40944 Date: 2003-07-29T08:27:38-05:00 List-Id: >>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.