(Gramps 5.1.6 / Windows 11) My father has spend his last twenty odd years on building the Paternotte family tree. He’s getting pretty old now and is loosing touch with many things in life, including computing. It looks like that I need to take over his administrative legacy. Dad has always used Ge…

[image] StephanP: would you be interested in a (partial) gedcom export from GDP to see what’s in there? @ennoborg is a better choice for that. He has the original software and speaks the language.

Welcome Stephan! There is only a single thread with of the GensData (or GensData Pro) tool in the old maillist archives. That is a brief mention by @ennoborg as one of the genealogy tools used in the Netherlands. There is not detail. The process of GensData export in GEDCOM dialect and import int…

I will leave the GEDCOM export options to our Dutch speakers that would better understand available options. [image] StephanP: Dad’s Paternotte family tree includes large branches of other families. E.g. from the 2nd generation, the database called “Paternotte” includes the full ancestry of gra…

@Davesellers , @emyoulation and @DaveSch Thank you very much for the information you were able to provide me with. I’ve figured out that GDP can export to GEDCOM or GEDCOM with profile images and that - indeed - non-standard information will be added into Notes. I’ll give it a few goes these days an…

@emyoulation would you be interested in a (partial) gedcom export from GDP to see what’s in there?

Hello Stephan, If you want, you can also send a GEDCOM file to me, so that I can check whether it’s possible to write a text filter that replaces GEDCOM tags that Gramps doesn’t understand to tags that work. And things like that can help a lot. I’ve tried GDP a couple of times, and I agree that it…

Stephan, I have just done that. Importing a Gedcom created by GensData Pro. I have experienced data loss and have experienced that most (if not all) custom tags ended up as Notes in Gramps. It needed a lot of work to get things right again. So much so that with this small database I started from scr…

Thanks @ursus , it’s nice to see another user testing this. And as far as I’m concerned, you must have very good reasons to do a migration like this. I know from private messages with Stephan that call names (roepnamen) are lost, because they rely on a custom tag that’s not supported by Gramps, and t…

Does Gensdata Pro have a published file format or database schema?

Not that I know of. It’s a one man project, and I know that it runs on something that was once called the Borland Database Engine, but there is no official public documenation, and not an unofficial one either, like there is for RootsMagic. And I bet that it’s not in the interest of the author eith…

Perhaps going OT @ennoborg . I did use Pro-Gen since 1992, When I emigrated to GDP its direct import was nearly flawless. I do (sort of) agree that, when researching within the Netherlands, GDP is a much better tool then Gramps. Higly geared to our situation. And I also (mostly) agree that going fr…

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@ennoborg is a better choice for that. He has the original software and speaks the language.

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