Still in development. Software to extract data from a GEDCOM (genealogy software) file format and create a tab-delimited ASCII text file. The resulting file maintains the parent and child information by ID number so that family members can be readily located in the file. The primary purpose of this software is to create a format that can be used with a database engine (such as the free-for-non-commercial use mySQL). Databases are significantly faster than plain text files, especially when you're dealing with more than a few hundred names.
This version has a known memory leak—it does not properly deallocate memory after reading a GEDCOM file. This application is memory based, meaning that it likes RAM. All in all, it alpha-quality software (at best). It does not currently allow you to choose which information it will extract, it has the wrong application icon, and no instructions for use. On the plus side, it makes use of Navigation Services and does some error checking while parsing the GEDCOM file; it seems that not all genealogy software writes files that conform to the GEDCOM standard. Use at your own risk. Update April 2002: this software is effectively obsolete (was replaced by Java code not released to the public).. Download it here (28KB).
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