8.5.3 How do I load a pedigree from a GEDCOM file?

As of version 2 release candidate 1 PyPedal can load pedigrees from GEDCOM 5.5 files. This is done by passing the pedsource keyword to pyp_newclasses.loadPedigree with a value of "gedcomfile":

options['pedfile'] = 'example2.ged'
options['pedformat'] = 'ASD'
options['pedname'] = 'A GEDCOM pedigree'
example2 = pyp_newclasses.loadPedigree(options,pedsource='gedcomfile')

Note that only a limited subset of the GEDCOM format is supported, and it is possible to lose metadata when converting a pedigree from GEDCOM to PyPedal. More details on PyPedal's GEDCOM handling can be found in Appendix B.

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