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