As an amateur genealogist for over 45 years, I currently use Family Tree Maker to record my data. I have used others over the years and exported the data out as a GEDCOM to send to others with different software. That seems to be the universal language of the various genealogy programs. I've often thought that it would be helpful to be able to transfer the data to other formats, even just Excel, and have more control over what parts of the data I use so that I can manipulate it in other ways (for example using the location coordinates to map in Arc).
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GEDCOM and FTM File Format Data Transformations
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I see the format is described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEDCOM - is there any free large datasets available online that you know of?
Since a Gedcom is essentially a txt file you can use something like Oxy-gen to convert it to a csv to be used with FME. However, it leaves out a lot of the pertinent data from FTM. I'd like to take it directly out of FTM and select the data fields I need. There are lots of datasets on
Ancestry.com. I have a few of my own. What are you looking to do with the data?