I used Paul Johnson's search.cpan.org/dist/Gedcom/ Gedcom.pm1 to process the output of Sierra On-Line's genealogy software (which they don't make any more) in PERL... not sure I'm using it in the best possible way, but hey.
Plenty of genealogy software here2, go for it.
Paul Clarke's blog - I live in A small town, Kent. Wed + father to two, I am a full-stack web engineer, + I do js / nodejs, some ruby, other languages ect ect. I like pubs, parkrun, eating, home automation + other diy stuff, history, genealogy, TV, squirrels, pirates, lego, + TIME TRAVEL.