Transferring GEDCOM from familysearch to gramps - setup

 Back to that python script for exporting GEDCOM from familysearch mentioned in an earlier blog

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/GEDCOM

GitHub Desktop

After following a couple of links one sees it under source control with git. I have never used it with Windows before.

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git

shows 3 options. 

The last, desktop https://desktop.github.com/,

mentions CRLF handling and 64 bit installs. Run the GitHub Desktop installer. Approve permissions. log in. Bonus: my password manager even remembers my credentials from my last job. Luckily my personal email was in the list of for verification.

Configure it for URL https://github.com/Linekio/getmyancestors and get errors. :(

Failed to execute getStatus: ENOENT

Git could not be found at the expected path: 'C:\Users\karen\AppData\Local\GitHubDesktop\app-2.6.3\resources\app\git\cmd\git.exe'. This might be a problem with how the application is packaged, so confirm this folder hasn't been removed when packaging.

Where did it get installed? idk. C:\Users\karen\AppData\Local\GitHubDesktop\app-2.6.3\resources\app\git\cmd seems good. Is it a pathing issue? and yet I find the files - wasn't that the goal? 

C:\Users\karen\OneDrive\Documents\GitHub\getmyancestors

While the error messages do not give me a feeling of reliability for future work, for this project I can move on. I also  rather wonder why this download that I have no current intention of changing is backed up ... to OneDrive - did I even configure this?

Windows 10?

Somewhere around here I totally lost context. Where is the notepad with the notes above (apparently found later)? Where is the browser with the tabs above? Was it a collision with GRAMPS and using python to configure? Was it a windows view finger futz? Where did that history slider thing go?  Arrg

Python3

So where were we? the README file for getmyancestors says to run

python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Open Command Prompt. quickly test with "python3 --help" and get a nice response.  Change directories and run the command above. Get some warnings:

Using legacy 'setup.py install' for babelfish, since package 'wheel' is not installed.

Installing collected packages: babelfish, certifi, chardet, diskcache, idna, urllib3, requests

    Running setup.py install for babelfish ... done

  WARNING: The script chardetect.exe is installed in 'C:\Users\karen\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\Scripts' which is not on PATH.

  Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location.

Successfully installed babelfish-0.5.5 certifi-2019.11.28 chardet-3.0.4 diskcache-4.1.0 idna-2.9 requests-2.23.0 urllib3-1.25.8

WARNING: You are using pip version 20.2.1; however, version 21.0.1 is available.

You should consider upgrading via the 'C:\Users\karen\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.

Some more searching yields some related links. Learning and using python3 was an outside goal, right?

• https://geek-university.com/python/add-python-to-the-windows-path/
• https://pythonwheels.com/

fstogedcom and getmyancestors

The README file above mentions a GUI

python3 fstogedcom.py

Failed the initial authentication attempt with email but got in with username. configured something like 4 up, 4 down, marriages, and notes. Got a bunch of statistics thru the GUI and a parcel of logging rolling by on my console. And yes a .ged file! in a cloud backed up location /Users/karen/OneCloud/Documents

individuals:87 sources:257 families:36 documents: 140

Why are the sources and documents so high? duplication across people? These are things I have poor luck with transferring in the past. It will be interesting to see what they look like. 

But am I satisfied? I know I entered a bit of family for some of the wives. I did not figure out how to get stats >0 when basing off the wives IDs.  I even tried the command line instead of the GUI. 

usage: getmyancestors.py -u username -p password [options]

Retrieve GEDCOM data from FamilySearch Tree (4 Jul 2016)

optional arguments:

  -u <STR>, --username <STR>

                        FamilySearch username

  -p <STR>, --password <STR>

                        FamilySearch password

  -i <STR> [<STR> ...], --individuals <STR> [<STR> ...]

                        List of individual FamilySearch IDs for whom to retrieve ancestors

  -a <INT>, --ascend <INT>

                        Number of generations to ascend [4]

  -d <INT>, --descend <INT>

                        Number of generations to descend [0]

  -m, --marriage        Add spouses and couples information [False]

  -r, --get-contributors

                        Add list of contributors in notes [False]

  -c, --get_ordinances  Add LDS ordinances (need LDS account) [False]

  -v, --verbose         Increase output verbosity [False]

  -t <INT>, --timeout <INT>

                        Timeout in seconds [60]

  --show-password       Show password in .settings file [False]

  -o <FILE>, --outfile <FILE>

                        output GEDCOM file [stdout]

  -l <FILE>, --logfile <FILE>

                        output log file [stderr]

GRAMPS AOI64 5.1.13 (on desktop)

I seem to need to use the task manager to bring it back when switching contexts.

FamilyTree>import (to be preceded by FamilyTree> make backup)

surnames: 38

people: 90

That's 3 more than the 87 above - precisely what I had entered my hand and now had to merge manually. Select the names Edit>merge. Pick the dominant entry. There was no hinting of what might need merging or cherry picking from both entries.

Made a backup of this import in something like /Users/karen/Paffendorf-2021-02-10-10-32.gramps.

This is not backed up to the cloud.

Gramps is configured to show a tip every time it starts. It uses Gtk. Is the dust stirring? and GNOME.

Editing gedcom

Later experience resulted in the desire to modify the generated gedcom. 

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEDCOM (used by GRAMPS?)
  
• gedcom 5.5 standard
  
• http://www.gedcomx.org/Documentation.html
  

On linux this looks useful for indenting the gedcom.

https://ebixio.com/blog/2012/03/05/editing-gedcom-files-with-vim

Modifying script under source control

Ideally instead of editing the file, modifying the program might be a better solution.

• https://git-scm.com/docs
  
• https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/using-branches
  

lifelines

Gramps has rather limited reports that it generates. Also a lack of headers/footers/page numbers.

(To import look under utilities.)

• http://lifelines.github.io/lifelines/docs/manual-3.1.1/ll-userguide.html
  

To Do:

• Make sure OneCloud is configured correctly - notifications have been happening
• (fix github pathing)
• figure out the other tree gedcoms and maybe understand the merge gedcom on the gui
• (understand config/.system files for scripts.)
• print  descendant chart using gramps - one of the things missing on familysearch
• look at the sources and documents under gramps
• use gramps more and share observations
• (learn python3)
• backups (use of one drive for an intended download, ged files, gramps data, reports)
• On familysearch I am only following 43/87 people possibly including some of those spouse families.