The cloud package has been updated.

If it's convenient, could you please post the snippet for the individual in your GEDCOM file that exposed the bug? I'd like to add it to my test suite. Thanks!

Hi Bob, In the "cob" file there is a "gedcomLines" function definition specific to the "NAME" tag as follows:

gedcomLines[level_, tag:"NAME", assocIn_Association] /; 
       MemberQ[Keys[assocIn], "GIVN" | "SURN" | "NSFX"] := 
    Module[{assoc=assocIn, giv, sur, suf, value}, 
(*Echo["gedcomLines"[level, tag, Association], "NAME"]; *)
       giv = assoc["GIVN"] /. _Missing -> ""; 
       sur = assoc["SURN"] /. _Missing -> ""; 
       suf = assoc["NSFX"] /. _Missing -> ""; 
       If[StringFreeQ[giv, "/"] && StringFreeQ[sur, "/"] && StringFreeQ[suf, "/"], 
         (* // elided when surname and suffix are absent *)
         value = StringTrim[giv <> " /" <> sur <> "/ " <> suf] // 
          StringReplace[#, (" //"|"//")~~EndOfString -> ""]&; 
         Scan[assoc[#] = . &, {"GIVN", "SURN", "NSFX"}]; 
         assoc["_VALU"] = value
         ]; 
       gedcomLines[level, tag, assoc]
       ]

The line with the "Scan" statement appears to have a syntax errror and generates the error message:

Syntax::sntxf: "assoc[#]=" cannot be followed by ".&".

Thanks for your help in looking at this.

Regards, Bob

The problem is with the first few instances of FamilyTree embedded in the notebook. Another Community member message me privately about that also. Newly computed FamilyTree objects are fine, so, for example, copy Out[5] and pasting it into the corresponding part of In[6] and In[7] should work.

I'll get a corrected version tested and uploaded soon.

Bob

Thanks. Now I see I do have something.

Hi Ron,
This line is not meant to give any output. It just loads the package. After evaluating it, try evaluate this line too

Names["Genealogy`*"]

Worked fine with me and gave the list of names, same as Robert showed.

Glad you found that Throw and Catch were just what you needed. I've seen similar "failure" of Return and now use Throw and Catch all the time.

Sounds like we're of similar vintage. My first computing was done on the college's IBM 1130 fifty years ago with 8K bytes and real cores. I have one box of punch cards left from that era! I learned FORTRAN G from the IBM reference manual. I eventually moved on to c in the 90s. I started using Mathematica in 1989, but didn't get seduced until the mid 90s when I started doing genetic programming (John Koza's extension of genetic algorithms).

Thanks for posting your code, Ron!

If all one is interested in is familial relationships, them simpler is better. I'll admit, I take a while to get my head around the file parsing code of my package because it captures everything in the file and attempts to handle a GED file regardless of its source.

I have some cousin marriages in my family tree, also, and a pair of brothers marrying a pair of sisters. Viewing the tree in Ancestry does not make that obvious, whereas making a Graph in Mathematica certainly does.

For lines of descent, have you tried making a Graph and then using FindPath?

Let me know if you have any problems using my package, I'd be more than happy to help you out.

Amazing Rob! Thank you very much for doing this. I will experiment with my family tree right away...

Hi Rob, Any chance to get a beta version once you think it is ready testing? I have a GEDCOM file with about 320 entries... Thank you, Sorin

I never did get the referenced file and ended up writing my on Mathematica routines to analyze the GEDCOM file. I would be pleased to share what I have done but I don’t have access to my stuff at this time. I am in a condo waiting for our new home to be built and my IMac is in storage. Remind me in April or May when I should be up and running again. GEDCOM is pretty easy to parse and it wasn’t too difficult to write useful modules. I use a free program, Gramps to do the trees, and I export GRAMPS GEDCOM to Mathematica. I have a nice code that finds all lines of decent from person A to person B. It is a good exercise in “backtracking”. You should try it.

Thank you. Robert did contact me by the way.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-many-americans-are-married-to-their-cousins/

Well, let's not jump to conclusions. Marriage between first cousins was common well into the the 19-th century throughout the US and UK.

I wonder how easy it would be to get the statistics on that.

Yes, I'd love the chance to test it

Ron

I just tried Import["file.ged", "Lines"] and it worked perfectly. the end stuff is as you said like this:{"1 TITL Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2", "1 AUTH \ Ancestry.com", "1 PUBL Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.", "1 _APID \ 1,3718::0", "0 @S113467862@ SOUR", "1 TITL \ <a href="http://mayflowerhistory.com/brewster-william/"">http://mayflowerhistory.com/brewster-william/", "1 NOTE ", "0 \ @S113591755@ SOUR", "1 REPO @R100735530@", "1 TITL Canada, Find A \ Grave Index, 1600s-Current", "1 AUTH Ancestry.com", "1 PUBL \ Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.", "1 _APID 1,60527::0", "0 @S113613092@ \ SOUR", "1 REPO @R100735530@", "1 TITL Great Migration Begins: \

I find genealogy quite fascinating. I have discovered that I am a Mayflower descendant from 2 families, Stephen Hopkins and his 2 children Giles and Constance. Plus i am a distant cousin of Sarah Palin (She is also a Hopkins descendant) and a distant cousin of Mark Twain Immigrants to New England, 1620-33", "1 AUTH Robert Charles \ Anderson", "1 PUBL Ancestry.com Operations Inc", "1 _APID 1,4714::0", \ "0 TRLR"}

Thanks again.

Thanks for responding. I've ended up attempting to do my own coding. Not very elegant, but I am getting there. I am using associations and data sets. I found that for some reason my Mathematica (ver 11.01) stopped reading the .ged file. It was working fine for a few days and then when i updated my Ancestry tree, and downloaded a new GEDCOM, The "Import" sent a message that it didn't know how to open the file. By changing the extension to .txt, it opens as a long sting of text, from which I can then pull out what I need. For simplicity I am just using INDI, NAME, FAMC and FAMS. The GEDCOM file also has an awful lot of junk at the end that isn't associated with any individual. i have no idea what is does. I can build a tree from Graph but I think there are still some errors in the construction of edges. I don't particularly like using a family as a separate vertex. spouse-> family <- spouse and family->Child1, etc. but I can't think of any other way to do it using Graph[vertices, edges].

Ron Gove

Thanks, but how do I "ping him as @Robert Nachbar." clicking on @Robert Nachbar. tells me all about him but no contact info. This may all be moot as I ended up writing my own code.

Yes, I listened to the presentation and examined the notebook, No information of how to get his package.