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Main Home Genealogy Pictures Map Documents Artifacts Family Privacy Policy Downloads Downloads Fun Stuff Name contest Links Genealogy People	If you are a nerd programmer, and I know I am, you may be interested in some of the technical aspects of this website so you can create your own! Well, it is your lucky day, since I am offering for download here some of the custom computer programs I have written to help with the administration and maintenance of this website. Everything offered on this download page is licensed under the GPL and is free for the downloading! Gedutils PHPGedView is the software I use to display the data on my website. It has nice, built-in privacy features to protect the data of living persons. However, from my perspective, software will always have bugs, people will always make mistakes, and other people love exploiting these problems for their own nefarious ends. Since personal data such as birthdates, social security numbers, and family history information is very sensitive, I do not think that the software protections of phpGedView are enough. The information should simply not be available on a public webserver - protected or not. I thought that others would feel the same way, so I searched for utilities that would automatically remove the names of living people from my GEDCOM files. Apparently, the most popular of the existing utilities are GEDClean and GEDLiving. These utilities, and a few others, share common problems: They are binary executables that only run on Windows. They are shareware, and come with the usual assortment of annoying reminders to pay money to the authors. They provide odd user interfaces and do not offer the full functionality that I want - removing all living and possibly living individuals and their family relationship information from the GEDCOM file completely. Because of these problems, I wrote a Perl script called "ged-paranoia.pl" that searches through your GEDCOM files and automatically deletes all living individuals, possibily living individuals, and their family relationship information. I used the GEDCOM Perl Module as the foundation to accomplish this. Because the GEDCOM Perl module produces output PHPGedView does not understand, I created a companion perl script to reformat the output of ged-paranoia into something PHPGedView will understand. The result of this effort are what I call the "gedutils". The scripts I have already mentioned, plus some companion information and scripts are included in the packages available for download here. I figure I will be writing more scripts in the future to take care of some of the repetitive work of GEDCOM editing, and I will include them in the gedutils package in the future. Gedutils is available in the following formats: gedutils.tar.gz gedutils.zip Back to the Project Website

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If you are a nerd programmer, and I know I am, you may be interested in some of the technical aspects of this website so you can create your own! Well, it is your lucky day, since I am offering for download here some of the custom computer programs I have written to help with the administration and maintenance of this website. Everything offered on this download page is licensed under the GPL and is free for the downloading!

Gedutils

PHPGedView is the software I use to display the data on my website. It has nice, built-in privacy features to protect the data of living persons. However, from my perspective, software will always have bugs, people will always make mistakes, and other people love exploiting these problems for their own nefarious ends. Since personal data such as birthdates, social security numbers, and family history information is very sensitive, I do not think that the software protections of phpGedView are enough. The information should simply not be available on a public webserver - protected or not.

I thought that others would feel the same way, so I searched for utilities that would automatically remove the names of living people from my GEDCOM files. Apparently, the most popular of the existing utilities are GEDClean and GEDLiving. These utilities, and a few others, share common problems:

They are binary executables that only run on Windows.
They are shareware, and come with the usual assortment of annoying reminders to pay money to the authors.
They provide odd user interfaces and do not offer the full functionality that I want - removing all living and possibly living individuals and their family relationship information from the GEDCOM file completely.

Because of these problems, I wrote a Perl script called "ged-paranoia.pl" that searches through your GEDCOM files and automatically deletes all living individuals, possibily living individuals, and their family relationship information. I used the GEDCOM Perl Module as the foundation to accomplish this. Because the GEDCOM Perl module produces output PHPGedView does not understand, I created a companion perl script to reformat the output of ged-paranoia into something PHPGedView will understand.

The result of this effort are what I call the "gedutils". The scripts I have already mentioned, plus some companion information and scripts are included in the packages available for download here. I figure I will be writing more scripts in the future to take care of some of the repetitive work of GEDCOM editing, and I will include them in the gedutils package in the future.

Gedutils is available in the following formats:

Back to the Project Website