Hello,
I’m looking for a family tree program under macOS. I have old database file’s from Brother’s Keeper 7 (DT7). I have no GEDCOM and can’t use BK7 on a mac.
Is there any way to import, translate or use an DT7 2 GED program so I can use the old data again?
Thanks for your answer
regards
Robbert
The Trial version of Brother’s Keeper is apparently not limited in the number of people in the database nor does it disable the GEDCOM export. Since you’re talking about a backup format with a very limited market, you are unlikely to find an aftermarket translation tool. The conversion will have to be performed with Brother’s Keeper.
So you should either find a friend with a Windoze box and ask them to use the Trial version to convert the file to a GEDCOM. Or use one of the Windoze emulators for macOS and do that task yourself.
-Brian
Brothers Keeper appears to be a one-man operation (John Steed*). You might try contacting him to see if he could assist you. Maybe for a fee.
Craig
The best thing that you can do is follow Brian’s advice, and install a Windows emulator like crossover, or a virtual machine like virtualbox, and then run Windows 10 in that. You can get virtualbox and Windows 10 for free, although the latter will complain about activation. You can ignore that however, for a very long time.
The other way would be to send the database to me, and let me convert it to GEDCOM for you. I will then check your tree for familiar names, and I already noticed that your surname is familiar.
I expect that the conversion will be pretty straightforward, because BK does not have very exotic features.
I have been using Brothers Keeper for about 40 years. I am now very keen to convert to GRAMPS as the development is now really well advanced and development is very active. I was hoping that someone else has also taken this path and can warn me of any speedbumps to look out for
Thanks
There was a thread a couple of years ago, but I don’t think it will be much help:
Thanks Nick. Looks like I will just have to import the GEDCOM file and manually search for missing info.
About Missing data:
FYI… When Gramps has a problem with custom (or mangled) GEDCOM, it doesn’t discard that data. It saves the data as a Note attached to the Person. So that will not cause additional gaps.
But you’re probably referring to Brother’s Keeper data that it doesn’t even try to export in GEDCOM format?
Do you know which database Brother’s Keeper uses? There might be some external tools that could used. It used Btrieve through version 6, then moved to proprietary. External tools not available.
Thanks for that info. Means I can at least check back to my BK database and see what’s missing. BK uses GEDCOM 5 to export to.
Hi,
Is there any way to set GRAMPS so that surnames are automatically defaulted to uppercase?
Thanks
Can one select a different font in GRAMPS? I mean in the programme itself, not in reports and graphics.
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That is just using a different name display format in the preferences. You can create your own.
To make a surname all caps instead of mixed case, you might adapt a format (defined by name-part keywords) that was originally “Surname, Given Suffix” (this is the default) into " SURNAME, Given Suffix"
You will still want to use mixed case during data entry.
See the Display Name Editor section in the wiki page about Preferences.
Yes. Font family, base size and CSS themes… including dark modes.
Install the Themes addon for Preferences.
The facility to have the correct name chosen depending on date is a great feature. However, how should one deal with a place name (town) that does not change but, because of political boundary changes it will fall into two different provinces, depending on date? Should these be two separate places being enclosed within the boundary of different provinces
Like the dates attached to the place and alternative place names, dates can be attached to the Enclosed by hierarchy and a place can have more than one enclosed by entry.
Is it possible to add extra columns to the top window in People? I would like to be able to also display the NICKNAME as an extra column
The People Editor includes the “Preferred” nickname in the top section.
But in there is not a separate column for nicknames. (But you could create a name display format that includes the common or nickname.)
The available columns for display in People category views are:
Name (required 1st column for the Grouped People view mode. So it is not shown as a configurable option)
ID
Gender
Birth Date
Birth Place
Checked
Death Date
Death Place
Spouse
Number of Parents
Number of Marriages
Number of Children
Number of To Do Notes
Private
Tags
Last Changed
Thanks Brian,
My problem concerns identifying different people with the exact same name when looking at the long list of people. As an example one family has 10 men with the same given names and the nickname would make it easy to pick out specific individuals without having to open the individual’s window. Seems the only option I have at this stage is to actually add the nickname to the given name. This would solve my problem but is not ideal
I am rather frustrated at the moment. In the People View there are two windows. The upper window displays the list of names in the DB and the lower window displays information about the highlighted individual. In this lower window I want to be able to change the order of the columns. Every time I change the order to my satisfaction I find that when I reopen GRAMPS the order is no longer as I had rearranged it. Is there any way to force GRAMPS to retain the order as I would like it to be?
Thanks
You can add the Nickname to the Name Display Format with the Name editor in preferences.. And you can change the Name Display format at any time. So you can use one Display Format for editing sessions and another during reports.