I have imported a large amount of persons with dates, which are formatted such as “3 juni 1840”. (day[number] month[text] year[number]). Gramps don’t seem to register this, is there any way to convert all of them into a compatible format without changing them one by one manually?

[image] Ludde: I have imported a large amount of persons with dates, which are formatted such as “3 juni 1840”. (day[number] month[text] year[number]). Gramps don’t seem to register this, is there any way to convert all of them into a compatible format without changing them one by one manually? …

When you installed Gramps, did you opt to install the language file used for that Calendar? [image] I use English and do not run into other languages very much. But it is possible that the importer may need the language support files to validate properly.

[image] Ludde: I have imported a large amount of persons with dates, which are formatted such as “3 juni 1840”. (day[number] month[text] year[number]). Gramps don’t seem to register this, is there any way to convert all of them into a compatible format without changing them one by one manually? …

I have the program in swedish so it can recognize the month correctly, but it seems it needs to have years first and days last for it to be a valid date, which I don’t have.

You might need to change your Gramps Preferences to have the Date format in the Display tab to use that ‘Day Month Year’ order. (Seemly unlikely that this will make a difference, but it is worth a try.) Gramps has an idiosyncrasy in this Preference item: changing Date format requires restarting Gra…

[image] Ludde: I have the program in swedish so it can recognize the month correctly, but it seems it needs to have years first and days last for it to be a valid date, which I don’t have. I understand what you mean, but that is not the case. Years first is a display format, which you can set…

I ran into this issue when I was testing the download from the LDS Tree database. All of the dates were valid, many just were not in any Gramps format and displayed in bold. I just tested it again. Running the Check and Repair did not work. Changing the format as suggested by @emyoulation did not w…

[image] DaveSch: I ran into this issue when I was testing the download from the LDS Tree database Do you mean the downloader that you can run from the command line? The one written in Python? I download lots of branches with Ancestral Quest or RootsMagic, and when I export those to GEDCOM, m…

[image] ennoborg: Do you mean the downloader that you can run from the command line ? The one written in Python? There was an earlier thread. GetMyAncestors : a standalone tool to export FamilySearch ancestors - Help - The Gramps Project (Discourse Forum & Mailing List)

OK, that’s what I meant. I don’t understand why it would confront you with bad date formats however.

[image] ennoborg: I don’t understand why it would confront you with bad date formats however. FamilySearch also allows unvalidated date text as a string, not a date data type. Like Gramps, it marks strings as unvalidated and expects a human to clean that up. (And they have a recent bug that d…

Format dates from day-month-year

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DaveSch July 17, 2022, 10:17pm 9

There was an earlier thread.

GetMyAncestors : a standalone tool to export FamilySearch ancestors - Help - The Gramps Project (Discourse Forum & Mailing List)

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