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PRO-GEN is a Windows compatible genealogical program originally written by Johan Mulderij and Dinant Scholte in't Hoff in 1989. For more information, see their [https://www.pro-gen.nl www.pro-gen.nl] website.
Using GEDCOM to export data from PRO-GEN dropped a significant amount of data. Therefore an Importer Gramps importer plugin was created that reads the native PRO-GENfiles. The plugin is included in the standard Gramps distribution.
To import the data, Gramps needs to be able to locate the Pro-Gen directory tree. This path depends on the PRO-GEN installation and setup. The version 3 of PRO-GEN might create a <code>~/pg30 </code> folder. If you are running Gramps on a Windows PC and have a copy Pro-Gen on that same computer, then no export or copying to another device is necessary before starting the import.
Another possibility is to ZIP everything on your Windows computer and unZIP it on your Linux or macOS PC in, say that <code>~/pg30 </code> folder.
In the following steps, we will assume that the Pro-Gen files are at <code>~/pg30</code>
Import the data:
