Provided by: geneweb_6.05.1-1_amd64
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)