{"id":2982,"date":"2012-03-25T18:47:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T23:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macgenealogy.org\/?p=2982"},"modified":"2012-03-25T19:08:17","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T00:08:17","slug":"review-gedscape-gedcom-utility-for-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macgenealogy.org\/2012\/03\/25\/review-gedscape-gedcom-utility-for-os-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: GedScape &#8211; GEDCOM Utility for OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macgenealogy.org\/gedscape\/\" title=\"GedScape for Mac\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.macgenealogy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GedScape-Icon.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"GedScape\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2956\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macgenealogy.org\/gedscape\/\" title=\"GedScape\">GedScape<\/a> came to my attention back when I was writing some articles about GEDCOM files, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macgenealogy.org\/faq\/conversion-of-unicode-gedcom-files-on-a-mac\/\" title=\"Conversion of Unicode GEDCOM files on a Mac\">conversion of Unicode\/UTF-8 GEDCOMs on Macs<\/a>.  Actually that&#8217;s only partly true &#8211; I had been aware of it for a while, but I didn&#8217;t have the time to fully explore it and get a proper writeup on MacGenealogy.org.  When I began looking at GEDCOM files on Macs, it took center stage, since it&#8217;s the only utility like it that exists.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t stress this enough &#8211; it is not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macgenealogy.org\/mac-genealogy-software\/\" title=\"Genealogy Software for Mac\">genealogy software for a mac<\/a> like say <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macgenealogy.org\/macfamilytree-6\/\" title=\"MacFamilyTree\">MacFamilyTree<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macgenealogy.org\/family-tree-maker-for-mac-2\/\" title=\"Family Tree Maker for Mac 2\">Family Tree Maker for Mac 2<\/a>.  Don&#8217;t download this software and think it&#8217;s going to be an all-in-one genealogy solution for you.  It has very specific goals and a very specific audience.<\/p>\n<p>With that said, it meets those goals and should satisfy that audience, not just because it&#8217;s the only GEDCOM utility like it for Mac OS X.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macgenealogy.org\/gedscape-review\/\" title=\"GedScape Review\">GedScape Review<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>(If you&#8217;d like to leave a comment, the comments are open on the review page)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GedScape came to my attention back when I was writing some articles about GEDCOM files, and the conversion of Unicode\/UTF-8 GEDCOMs on Macs. Actually that&#8217;s only partly true &#8211; I had been aware of it for a while, but I didn&#8217;t have the time to fully explore it and get &#8230; <a title=\"Review: GedScape &#8211; GEDCOM Utility for OS X\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.macgenealogy.org\/2012\/03\/25\/review-gedscape-gedcom-utility-for-os-x\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Review: GedScape &#8211; GEDCOM Utility for OS X\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,79,78,4,33,34],"tags":[83,40,146],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macgenealogy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macgenealogy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macgenealogy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macgenealogy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macgenealogy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.macgenealogy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macgenealogy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macgenealogy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macgenealogy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}