Softdisk Family Tree - Revision history

Dan Tobias: /* Sample data */

2020-02-11T14:10:25Z

‎Sample data

Dan Tobias: /* Resources */

2019-05-12T03:49:27Z

‎Resources

Dan Tobias at 02:39, 12 May 2019

2019-05-12T02:39:30Z

Dan Tobias at 00:12, 5 May 2016

2016-05-05T00:12:41Z

Dan Tobias: /* Family Tree 2 (Enhanced Family Tree) */

2015-12-02T21:06:06Z

‎Family Tree 2 (Enhanced Family Tree)

Eosrei: Adding link to ftgc: SoftDisk Family Tree to Gramps CSV. Thanks for the format details Dan!

2015-12-02T18:26:55Z

Adding link to ftgc: SoftDisk Family Tree to Gramps CSV. Thanks for the format details Dan!

Dan Tobias at 16:09, 20 April 2013

2013-04-20T16:09:40Z

Dan Tobias at 05:10, 17 April 2013

2013-04-17T05:10:56Z

Dan Tobias: /* Family Tree 1 */

2012-11-10T18:48:26Z

‎Family Tree 1

Dan Tobias: Follow ontology standards

2012-11-10T18:46:55Z

Follow ontology standards

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 == Sample data ==
-* [http://www.dan.info/sampledata/SAMPLE.FTD Family Tree 2 Person Data]
+* [https://www.dan.info/sampledata/SAMPLE.FTD Family Tree 2 Person Data]
-* [http://www.dan.info/sampledata/SAMPLE.FTM Family Tree 2 Marriage Data]
+* [https://www.dan.info/sampledata/SAMPLE.FTM Family Tree 2 Marriage Data]
-* [http://www.dan.info/sampledata/SAMPLE.FTI Family Tree 2 Index Data]
+* [https://www.dan.info/sampledata/SAMPLE.FTI Family Tree 2 Index Data]
-* [http://www.dan.info/sampledata/SAMPLE.FTP Family Tree 2 Place Name Data]
+* [https://www.dan.info/sampledata/SAMPLE.FTP Family Tree 2 Place Name Data]
-* [http://www.dan.info/sampledata/SAMPLE.F3D Family Tree 3 Person Data]
+* [https://www.dan.info/sampledata/SAMPLE.F3D Family Tree 3 Person Data]
-* [http://www.dan.info/sampledata/SAMPLE.F3M Family Tree 3 Marriage Data]
+* [https://www.dan.info/sampledata/SAMPLE.F3M Family Tree 3 Marriage Data]
 ==Resources==

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 ==Resources==
 * [https://github.com/eosrei/ftgc GPL CLI program for converting Family Tree 2 data to Gramps CSV Import format]
 [[Category:Softdisk]]
 [[Category:Multi-file formats]]

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 |extensions={{ext|fpd}},{{ext|fmd}},{{ext|fcm}},{{ext|ftd}},{{ext|ftm}},{{ext|fti}},{{ext|ftp}},{{ext|f3d}},{{ext|f3m}}
 |released=1987
 }}

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	[[Category:Softdisk]]		[[Category:Softdisk]]
		+	[[Category:Multi-file formats]]

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	The place name file (.FTP) is a text file with 10 lines giving the top 10 place names used in the file, so they can be presented in a pick list for further entries.		The place name file (.FTP) is a text file with 10 lines giving the top 10 place names used in the file, so they can be presented in a pick list for further entries.
		+
		+	The "Biography" field is True if there is a biography file for this particular person; such files are plain text files stored as separate files (not sure of the exact naming scheme, but it probably has the person number in it).

	== Family Tree 3 ==		== Family Tree 3 ==

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	* [http://www.dan.info/sampledata/SAMPLE.F3D Family Tree 3 Person Data]		* [http://www.dan.info/sampledata/SAMPLE.F3D Family Tree 3 Person Data]
	* [http://www.dan.info/sampledata/SAMPLE.F3M Family Tree 3 Marriage Data]		* [http://www.dan.info/sampledata/SAMPLE.F3M Family Tree 3 Marriage Data]
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		+	[[Category:Softdisk]]

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 |subcat=Genealogical data
 |extensions={{ext|fpd}},{{ext|fmd}},{{ext|fcm}},{{ext|ftd}},{{ext|ftm}},{{ext|fti}},{{ext|ftp}},{{ext|f3d}},{{ext|f3m}}
 }}

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 The .FIX (index) file contained two numbers, stored in the internal format of Turbo/Borland Pascal integers: the first had the number of persons in the file, and the second had the number of marriages.
-The .FCM (comments) had a series of comment lines (up to 80 characters) stored in a text file; I believe they were stored in the same order as the person records they were associated with so they could be matched up, since the pointer stored in the structure wouldn't be portable given that it's associated with a particular memory location. I think there was only one comment line per person, and if there were no comments the pointer was NIL and no comment line was saved in the comments file (this was created in an era when memory and disk space was rather scarce).
+The .FCM (comments) had a series of comment lines (up to 80 characters) stored in a text file; I believe they were stored in the same order as the person records they were associated with so they could be matched up, since the pointer stored in the structure wouldn't be portable given that it's associated with a particular memory location. I think there was only one comment line per person, and if there were no comments the pointer was NIL and no comment line was saved in the comments file (this was created in an era when memory and disk space was rather scarce). The way this was supposed to work is that, on reading in the person data, if the comments pointer was NIL it was left alone, but if it was anything else this signaled for another line of the commments file to be loaded and the pointer adjusted to point to it.
 == Family Tree 2 (Enhanced Family Tree) ==

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-{|
+{{FormatInfo
-|[[File Formats]]
+|subcat=Genealogical data
-| >
+|extensions={{ext|fpd}},{{ext|fmd}},{{ext|fcm}},{{ext|ftd}},{{ext|ftm}},{{ext|fti}},{{ext|ftp}},{{ext|f3d}},{{ext|f3m}}
-|[[Electronic File Formats]]
+}}
-| >
-|[[Genealogical data]]
-| >
-|[[Softdisk Family Tree]]
 |}
 The Family Tree program from Softdisk Publishing (some versions were called "Enhanced Family Tree") appeared in three major versions, and a number of minor revisions. Some were published on issues of the diskmagazine ''Big Blue Disk'' / ''On Disk Monthly'' / ''Softdisk PC'' (for PC/MS-DOS), while other versions were released as standalone programs in various places such as an online download store.  Later versions could import and export [[GEDCOM]] files, but the native data storage was in a binary format specific to the program. Like the program itself, the file format had three major versions (later program versions could import the data formats of the earlier ones).