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The GeneanetForGramps addon allows you to import ancestors and descendants for a selected person from the Geneanet website.

Usage

Once this addon and its Prerequisite has been installed:

Select Menu Tools > Family Tree Processing -> Import Geneanet data for Gramps...

Undo history warning

Proceeding with this tool will erase the undo history for this session. In particular, you will not be able to revert the changes made by this tool or any changes made prior to it. If you think you may want to revert running this tool, please stop here and backup your database.

From the Undo history warning dialogue you can choose Stop or Proceed with the tool.

Import from Geneanet into Gramps

The Geneanet Import Options tab is displayed with the following:
- Center Person: - Person to process in Geneanet (by default the active one)
- Genanet URL: - The URL on the Geneanet' site corresponding to the person selected in Gramps and from who you want to import ancestors and descendants. Note that in Gramps the person should have the same birth and death date so it works.
- [ ] Import ascendants: - Check that box if you want to import ancestors of the person (False by default).
- [ ] Import descendants: - Check that box if you want to import descendants of the person (False by default).
- [ ] Import spouses: - Check that box if you want to import spouses of the person (False by default).
- Level of import: Number of upper or lower parsing you'll do in the Geneanet tree. If you choose 2 (default), you'll get parents and grandparents, children and grandchildren. Be careful by using large numbers as the parsing can then take a long time.
- [ ] Force import: Force overwrite of existing Gramps fields in a person replaced by the Geneanet Filed (False by default).
- Verbosity: Increase the versbiosity in the text window where Gramps has been launched (from 0 to 4, 1 by default)

Once you have made your choices, you can either choose Close or Execute to launch the import.

Note that for the parsing to work, you need to have the same firstname/lastname and birth date/death date for the person in both Gramps and Geneanet. Using force mmay overwrite this security.

Tips

Make a try by just importing ancestors to check it's working correctly for you, and the you can add more persons. Limit the level of import when starting at 2 before increasing once you verified it's working for you. Note that the plugin can also be called from the CLI:

usage: GeneanetForGramps.py [-h] [-v] [-a] [-d] [-s] [-l LEVEL]
                            [-g GRAMPSFILE] [-i ID] [-f]
                            [searchedperson]

Import Geneanet subtrees into Gramps

positional arguments:
  searchedperson        Url of the person to search in Geneanet

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --verbosity       Increase verbosity
  -a, --ascendants      Includes ascendants (off by default)
  -d, --descendants     Includes descendants (off by default)
  -s, --spouses         Includes all spouses (off by default)
  -l LEVEL, --level LEVEL
                        Number of level to explore (2 by default)
  -g GRAMPSFILE, --grampsfile GRAMPSFILE
                        Full path of the Gramps database (under
                        $HOME/.gramps/grampsdb)
  -i ID, --id ID        ID of the person to start from in Gramps
  -f, --force           Force processing

Prerequisites

For the addon to work you will need to install both the Request and lxml Python modules.

Requests

Install the python module Requests otherwise you will get the following error:

2020-12-06 10:29:40.191: WARNING: _manager.py: line 308: Plugin error (from 'GeneanetForGramps'): No module named 'requests'

lxml

Install the python module lxml otherwise you will get the following error:

2020-12-07 00:22:41.100: WARNING: _manager.py: line 308: Plugin error (from 'GeneanetForGramps'): No module named 'lxml'

SQLite only supported

Also note that you need to use a SQLite DB (based on API-DB) and NOT a BSDDB for the plugin to work. When using a BSDDB base you'll get the following error:

File "/users/gnucash/.gramps/gramps51/plugins/GeneanetForGramps/GeneanetForGramps.py",
line 1339, in find_grampsp
    ids = db.get_person_gramps_ids()
AttributeError: 'DbBsddb' object has no attribute 'get_person_gramps_ids'

You can Convert a BSDDB Family Tree to SQLite and then export from the previous and import into the new.

GedcomforGeneanet Exporter

A complementary Exporter plugin (Greffons) is available at GitHub in Grocanar's repository: GedcomforGeneanet.

This plugin is an "improvement" of Geneanet's gedcom export. It provides the following features:

Export of cookies for events
Management of non-marital relationships
Including media paths
Exclude repository names in sources
Removing absolute paths in file path
Removing the “Merged Gramps ID” attribute
Added source quality to source description
Creation of a zip archive of the affected media
Removed support for the anychar standard from Gedcom 5.5
Management of common names
Exporting citation attributes
Export of an individual's census information with an optional extended format
Export of locations in geneanet format
Indication of the name of the place on the date of the event
Indication of alternative place names
Removal of optional address structure
Management of the display of titles of nobility
Addition of affiliation sources such as Individual Notes

Features

Export of cookies for events
Special case for baptisms

For baptisms If you have defined a CUSTOM role, the male person will be the Godfather and the female person will be my Godmother.

Witnesses and role.

For individual events other than baptism, all roles are assimilated to witnesses given the poverty of the GEDCOM standard. However, the extend_role option allows you to display the role but it will then be on two lines.

Management of non-marital relationships

For unmarried couples their status is no longer married.

Exclude repository names in sources

This allows you to exclude the repository name in the source name.

Removing absolute paths in file path

If the option is enabled this removes the path in the FILE tag. This generally allows you to delete user information in the gedcom file.

Removing the “Merged Gramps ID” attribute

This attribute is of no interest and is deleted during export.

Removed support for the anychar standard from Gedcom 5.5

Geneanet does not implement the anychar standard of the Gedcom5.3 standard which requires doubling the @ characters. So the dates exported to GRAMPS in an alternative calendar are not rendered well. This option removes the doubling of @.

Management of common names

Allows you to export the usual first name by indicating it between ".

Exporting citation attributes

Allows you to export the attributes of a citation. This makes it possible, for example, to indicate the URL of an act.

Exporting an individual's census information

Allows you to export information for an individual in a census in the form of event notes. If we select the extended format, it will display not only the information related to the individual but the information of all individuals in the household.

Export of locations in geneanet format

Geneanet imposes a format for place names that is not compatible with gramps. This option allows you to generate the title in geneanet format during export while retaining the automatic generation of the title in GRAMPS.

Indication of the name of the place on the date of the event

Indicate in a note the name of the place on the date of the event.

Indication of alternative place names

Indicate in notes the alternative names of the place.

Removal of optional address structure

The Gedcom standard allows the inclusion of an optional address structure for locations. This is the default operation of GRAMPS. But this causes a problem when importing Geneanet.

Management of titles of nobility

In the geneanet display we lose a certain amount of information and the title does not appear in the chronology. To have a clearer and more complete display I create on the fly a title type event which includes in a more complete way the information contained in the title of nobility event.

Addition of affiliation sources such as Individual Notes

GRAMPS allows you to put a source concerning the parentage of a person. This is interesting when you do not have birth or baptism certificates but you have a source allowing you to establish filiation such as a will. However, this is not provided for in the GEDCOM. This option allows you to add a Note to the individual.

Use an additional program

This option allows you to launch an additional library. When the option is activated, we generate their lienWii (Permalink?) for each individual in a table which is indexed by the handle of the individuals. This array is passed as a parameter in the function call

self.Extobj.run(filename,self.database,self.GENEWEBURL)

This function is contained in the ExtProg.py file.

This allows, for example, to make lists of people who can be included in the family chronicle. An example is provided which generates a list of all individuals in the database. Everyone can therefore adapt this code to their needs.

Gramps ^β

Addon:GeneanetForGramps

Usage

Tips

Prerequisites

Requests

lxml

SQLite only supported

See also

Contents

GedcomforGeneanet Exporter

Features

Use an additional program

Gramps β

Addon:GeneanetForGramps

Usage

Tips

Prerequisites

Requests

lxml

SQLite only supported

See also

Contents

GedcomforGeneanet Exporter

Features

Use an additional program

Gramps ^β