Changes in version 0.2.0 (2026-09-01)                  

  - Transferred addPersonToPed from BGmisc to tidygedcom.
  - Removed multiple duplicated people from Royal92
  - Implemented CRAN-related requests, moved example for internal
    functions to a unit test.

                        Changes in version 0.1.0                        

  - Initial CRAN submission.

Date handling

  - readGedcom(parse_dates = TRUE) now retains dates that are precise
    only to the month or the year. Previously these became NA, which
    discarded most of the dates in a typical historical pedigree.
    Partial dates are completed with the midpoint of the known interval
    (the 15th of a known month, 15 June for a known year); set the new
    impute_partial_dates = FALSE to restore the stricter behavior and
    keep only dates that specify a day.
  - Date qualifiers written with a trailing period (Abt., Aft.), as
    Ancestry.com exports them, are now stripped. Previously only the
    specification's unpunctuated forms (ABT, AFT) were recognized, so
    "Aft. Oct 1896" failed to parse.

Bug fixes

  - readGedcom() no longer leaves a stray / in the name column when a
    name suffix follows the surname (e.g. 1 NAME William Pitt /Waugh/ Jr
    parsed as William Pitt Waugh/ Jr). Both surname delimiters are now
    removed.
  - readGedcom() no longer errors with "missing value where TRUE/FALSE
    needed" when a spouse record has no SEX line. Individuals with
    unknown sex are skipped during parent mapping rather than compared.

Documentation and examples

  - The "Getting Started" vignette now walks through exporting a GEDCOM
    file from a genealogy service, including the instability of person
    IDs across exports and a note on the privacy implications of sharing
    an export containing living people.

  - Added two example GEDCOM files, installed under inst/extdata, drawn
    from the W. Henderson Waugh Family Tree and covering eight
    individuals (all deceased) across four families:
    
      - waugh.ged — a clean excerpt for documentation examples.
      - waugh_messy.ged — the same individuals retaining source-export
        defects (conflicting duplicate BIRT blocks, competing PLAC
        lines, an uncertain surname, a missing SEX value, and an
        individual with no birth record).

Internal refactoring

  - Reorganized R source files for clearer separation of concerns:
    parsing logic split across parseIndividuals.R, parseEvents.R,
    parseLines.R, parseFamily.R, and postProcessGedcom.R; readGedcom.R
    is now a slim orchestration entry point only.
  - Extracted four constructor functions (make_event_fields(),
    make_name_piece_mappings(), make_attribute_mappings(),
    make_relationship_mappings()) that build static tag-mapping tables.
    These are called once in readGedcom() before the per-individual
    lapply, and passed in as a mappings argument to
    parseIndividualBlock(), avoiding redundant reconstruction on every
    block.
  - Replaced the processEventLine() if/else chain with a data-driven
    dispatch over the event_fields lookup table, reducing the cost of
    adding new event types to a single table entry.
  - Pre-allocated the blocks list in splitIndividuals() (vector("list",
    n)) rather than growing it element-by-element.
  - Split the monolithic test file into focused files:
    test-parseEvents.R, test-convertCoords.R, test-postProcessGedcom.R,
    and test-readGedcom.R.
  - Added Roxygen documentation for all new internal functions.

Earlier development changes

  - Optimized GEDCOM reader for speed and memory usage, with a focus on
    large pedigrees.
  - Fixed bug in GEDCOM reader that resulted in document records being
    added to the final person in the pedigree.
  - Added more unit tests for GEDCOM reader and data parser.
  - Several improvements to GEDCOM parsing, focusing on more robust and
    flexible event parsing, better support for different GEDCOM
    versions, and enhanced usability.

Origin

  - Split the GEDCOM reader off from BGmisc. See history of those files
    in BGmisc:
      - https://github.com/R-Computing-Lab/BGmisc/commits/main/R/readGedcom.R
      - https://github.com/R-Computing-Lab/BGmisc/commits/main/R/readGedcomlegacy.R
      - https://github.com/R-Computing-Lab/BGmisc/commits/main/R/readWikifamilytree.R
  - Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
  - Initial version launched