Bob, first off, Gedcom is a perl programming library, not a finished program. You have to create a perl program to make use of it.
You might want to consider going at the problem differently: If there is a program that can convert your TSV files to GED, you'll only be faced with the quite common task of merging two trees instead of creating a specialized program. If there isn't, you can do it with Gedcom - depending on whether your TSV files are internally consistent. But it will take quite a bit of perl programming. Once you have the two GED files, use some standard tool to perform the merge. This is a task virtually all genealogists are faced with at some point, so there is ample discussion of the subject to be found on the net. For pruning you will probably also find a standard program to do the job, depending on what you mean by immediate family. That's much more efficient than programming your own pruning tool using perl/Gedcom. Cheers, Michael Bob McConnell wrote: > I just downloaded Gedcom-1.16.tar.gz, but before I spend any time on > it, am I barking up the wrong tree? I have a GED file with most of my > father's family. I also have several tab separated files with most of > my mother's family. I want to merge the two into a single GED file. > > There are 26 TSV files, all but one of them with 50 lines. Some of > these lines are duplicates of records already in the GED file. I need > to read each line, extract the specific fields I need and insert > records that do not appear to be duplicates. Once that is finished I > will need to prune the file of trees outside of my immediate family. > > Can Gedcom help me do this, or should I be looking for other tools? > > Thank you, > > Bob McConnell > N2SPP > >
