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Bruce or Tracy Jacobs wrote:

> I actually starting writing some for my mother who was
> needing to convert some genealogy records.  The code is
> about 3/4 written. 

Just curious.  Of course there's tons in C and Java,
and I've found (and written a little) in perl.  Are you
considering "publishing" any you've written?  Want any
help with it?

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).

So anything that I write or someone else writes to simplify
my work without tying my hands on some major point....