gedcom
A small, simple parser for GEDCOM 5.5.1.
API Documentation
Installation
The gedcom package can be added as a dependency to use in your code, or
if you'd like to just use the CLI, install it globallly:
npm install -g gedcom
CLI
Usage
$ parse-gedcom <input>
Options
--type, -s Output type (json, d3.json, dot)
Examples
$ gedcom input.ged output.json
Caveats
- The GEDCOM specification allows use of an ANSEL character encoding - a nearly-unknown predecessor to UTF-8. This parser doesn't currently handle ANSEL encoding, so it may behave oddly with files in ANSEL. However, it appears that most programs that export GEDCOM default to or at least support UTF-8, which is recommended instead.
- The GEDCOM standard is ubiquitous and practical, but has embedded cultural biases.
This parser allows "non-standard" input in places where GEDCOM is bigoted, like
the
SEX_VALUEfield.