Help:Loading Gedcoms

This is a short page on a gedom conversion program which is currently under development.

Perhaps the best place to start is with the old screen shot.



The main program window



Opening the Gedcom file. If you are creating a gedcom file from another program, I suggest you trurn off including living individuals.



The right hand tab contains the details on the individual.

In the top left is a field with the url to enter into your web browser. Use Select All (CTRL-A) to select the whole section of text and then copy (CRTL-C) and paste (CTRL-V) to paste it into the address field of your browser and enter to trigger the page. If there is already an individual who meets this criteria you will start editing that individual. If no such individual exists you will have a blank edit box. If the latter is the case, copy the individual code to the edit box. Edit this code to make it prettier, preview if required and save.



If you now scroll to the bottom of the individual you will see if the surname already exists. If it does not, click on the link. This will take you to an empty edit box for that surname. Copy the code from the surname tab into this box and save.

Here is a package of the Java code. To run the program is somewhat complex and there is no auto installer.

These insructions assume you are using Netbeans as the Java IDE.

- Yewenyi