I still have 2 older DB (BSDDB 6.0.30). How do I determine which version they were created with? I would like to convert the DB to Sqlite so that I can continue to use it
If you put these in your grampsdb folder, Gramps 5.1.6 or 5.2.2 will probably recognize them, and offer to convert them too. There’s a small chance that it complains about a missing python3-bsddb3 package, but if it does that, you can install that with Synaptic.
The lookup page for schemas shows a writing schema 6 all the way back in the Gramps 2.01 (2005-05-23) through 2.04 (2005-06-27) versions.
After loading the old database, you would want to backup to XML, not incremental stepping up the version of the database. By exporting to XML, Any modern version of Gramps can read the data.
Gramps 2.2.10 (2006-02-27) was the last version that read database schema 6 and it wrote 1.1.4 XML schema.
If you were to go the route of incrementing the Database schema: Gramps 2.2.10 was the last version that could update that schema 6 to database schema 12. And Gramps 3.0.4 (2008-12-06) updates to schema 14. All Gramps versions after that can read database schema 13 or better.
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