Frequently Asked Questions

I am just starting this FAQ. For the moment, I just answer two of them. I add more questions later.

My genealogic software tells me that the base holds 3000 individuals, but GeneWeb says: 3050 individuals. Why this difference?

In GeneWeb, parents are always recorded in couple. When there is just the father or just the mother in the GEDCOM file, GeneWeb adds the other parent, giving her or him a question mark as first name and surname. The difference are these missing (but having existed) parents.

Why some dates are transformed through ged2gwb into "maybe in..."?

When GeneWeb cannot recognize a date in a GEDCOM file, probably because this date does not follows the standard GEDCOM 5.5 (but it may be a bug in GeneWeb: in this case, please tell me), it tries to find something looking like a year in the date text. And it adds it a "maybe" to indicate that it is not sure of this.

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