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MEETING Feb 13 2012

Attendance

Attending: Andrew H. (moderator), Dear Myrt, Geir Thorud, GeneJ, Gordon Clarke, Marvin Parsons, Roger Moffat, Tamura Jones, Tony Proctor.
Special attendees: Marvin Parsons (Shedon Family assoc); Gordon Clarke
Most honored guest: Welcome, Myrt
Absent by notice: Robert Burkhead (between locations, somewhere in the southwest desert)

Announcements

Wiki
Tony – ISO requests representative as liaison on one or more of its projects. (Requirements probably mean this would be provided by FHISO.)

Gordon Clarke: GEDCOMX.org and GEDCOMX.net – please look at these open forums. Membership increasing.

Introductions

Marvin Parsons-Welcome. Would like to convert his database to GEDCOM.

Agenda

(1) ITEM: Sheldon family database (Marvin Parsons)
In dbase > foxbase > X?Xbase > Access, but not relational in Access)
70000 individuals
RM uses SQL Lite
See also Sue Sheldon comments on the wiki.
(Susan Sheldon is the official contact on this)

http://www.godskingsandheroes.info/software/Excel2GEDv1.0-family.zip
Acc2Ged http://www.wintree.plus.com/acc2ged.zip

ITEM: FHISO

Membership requests have reached 40 (30 individual/10 organisational)
55% US and Canada; 45% non-North America
Your Family History article – March issue.
Second article underway, “One community - one standard!”

ITEM: FHISO - GEDCOMX

GEDCOMX insights and GEDCOMX presentations at RT2012 (Robert Burkhead)
This item is postponed due to Robert's absence.

ITEM: Q & A



Closing Comments:

Tony: Article for APG; FHISO goals of Education and working with existing standards. SOG, working on them about FHISO.
Marvin: Will send information about the meeting to Susan Sheldon.

Meeting Adjourned at 12:10. Submitted by GeneJ. Corrections and Additions welcome.