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ged2gwb(1)             DragonFly General Commands Manual            ged2gwb(1)

NAME
       ged2gwb - Create a GeneWeb database from a GEDCOM file

SYNOPSIS
       ged2gwb [ <ged> ] [ options ]

DESCRIPTION
       ged2gwb creates a starter database for use by GeneWeb , from a GEDCOM
       file.

       The primary documentation of ged2gwb is in the HTML documentation,
       which you can find in the documentation directory
       (/usr/share/doc/geneweb on Debian systems).
       Please look there for complete and up-to-date documentation.

OPTIONS
       -help   command-line help

       -o <file>
               output database (default: a.gwb)

       -f      Remove database if already existing

       -log <file>
               Redirect log trace to this file.

       -lf     - Lowercase first names -
               Convert first names to lowercase letters, with initials in
               uppercase.

       -ls     - Lowercase surnames -
               Convert surnames to lowercase letters, with initials in
               uppercase. Try to keep lowercase particles.

       -us     - Uppercase surnames -
               Convert surnames to uppercase letters.

       -fne be - First names enclosed -
               When creating a person, if the GEDCOM first name part holds a
               part between 'b' (any character) and 'e' (any character), it is
               considered to be the usual first name: e.g. -fne '""' or -fne
               "()".

       -efn    - Extract first names -
               When creating a person, if the GEDCOM first name part holds
               several names, the first of this names becomes the person
               "first name" and the complete GEDCOM first name part a "first
               name alias".

       -no_efn - Dont extract first names - [default]
               Cancels the previous option.

       -epn    - Extract public names - [default] When creating a person, if
               the GEDCOM first name part looks like a public name, i.e.
               holds:
                    * a number or a roman number, supposed to be a number of a
               nobility title,
                    * one of the words: "der", "den", "die", "el", "le", "la",
               "the", supposed to be the beginning of a qualifier, then the
               GEDCOM first name part becomes the person "public name" and its
               first word his "first name".

       -no_epn Cancels the previous option.

       -no_pit - No public if titles -
               Do not consider persons having titles as public

       -tnd    - Try negative dates -
               Set negative dates when inconsistency (e.g. birth after death)

       -no_nd  - No negative dates -
               Don't interpret a year preceded by a minus sign as a negative
               year

       -udi x-y
               - Undefined death interval -
               Set the interval for persons whose death part is undefined:
                      - if before x years, they are considered as alive
                      - if after y year, they are considered as death
                      - between x and y year, they are considered as "don't
               know"
                      Default x is 80 and y is 120

       -uin    - Untreated in notes -
               Put untreated GEDCOM tags in notes

       -ds     - Default source -
               Set the source field for persons and families without source
               data

       -dates_dm
               Interpret months-numbered dates as day/month/year

       -dates_md
               Interpret months-numbered dates as month/day/year

       -charset [ANSEL|ASCII|MSDOS]
               - charset decoding -
               Force given charset decoding, overriding the possible setting
               in GEDCOM

                               2002 October 20th                    ged2gwb(1)