[Ldsoss] Script to extract relief society members from MLS Membership.csv dump

2007-08-19 Thread m h
Hola- I also recently was tasked by my wife to help her personalize letters to all the Relief Society. Enter python and OOo. The attached python script will extract all Relief Society members from the csv dump (based on gender and date script is run). I assume everyone else does/will do this in

[Ldsoss] Script to download conference mp3s....

2007-08-19 Thread m h
My wife recently asked for all the recent conference mp3s, so I whipped out a little script to do that in python. You point it at a lds.org conference url and it will pull all the individual talks (skipping the complete session ones) into a specified directory. I thought I'd share it in case anyo

Re: [Ldsoss] Alternate way of searching genealogy...

2007-08-19 Thread Russell Hltn
I think the key to what you are asking is to somehow code the location of these places such that the computer can work out "near" and "neighbor". Not a trivial exercises. It's tempting to use GPS coordinates, since they are reasonably stable over time and different histories. Some of the hard wo

Re: [Ldsoss] Alternate way of searching genealogy...

2007-08-19 Thread Steven H. McCown
I'm sure it has. Mine is a common problem / solution. Still, I haven't seen it on the streets, yet. This is the kind of thing that a commercial genealogy site would startup as a trial to premium service. I was a little soured on those types of sites that wanted me to submit my gedcom files so t

Re: [Ldsoss] Alternate way of searching genealogy...

2007-08-19 Thread Jesse Stay
On 8/19/07, Jeoff Wilks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sounds like social networking for ancestors. This has been thought of - I am not sure if I'm allowed to say by whom, but expect the future to be full of technology like this. Jesse -- #!/usr/bin/perl $^=q;@!>~|{>krw>yn{u<$$ 0gFzD gD, 00Fz, 0

Re: [Ldsoss] Alternate way of searching genealogy...

2007-08-19 Thread Jeoff Wilks
Sounds like social networking for ancestors. -Original Message- From: "Steven H. McCown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 07:22:15 To:"'LDS Open Source Software'" Subject: [Ldsoss] Alternate way of searching genealogy... I have a software request, if anyone has any time…  

[Ldsoss] Alternate way of searching genealogy...

2007-08-19 Thread Steven H. McCown
I have a software request, if anyone has any time. Years ago, I was searching a seemingly dead end genealogy line. This one was important to me, so I was giving it a little extra effort. Ancestral File, pension records, discovered state records, census information, etc. did not provide any ta