glx

GENEALOGIX CLI - Manage and validate genealogy archives

Synopsis

GLX is the official command-line tool for working with GENEALOGIX family archives.

GENEALOGIX is a modern, evidence-first, Git-native genealogy data standard. Use GLX to initialize new archives, validate files, and ensure data quality.

Options

  -h, --help    help for glx
  -q, --quiet   Suppress non-error output (where supported)

SEE ALSO

• glx add - Create entities (person, place, event, …) from CLI flags
• glx analyze - Analyze archive for research gaps, evidence quality, and consistency
• glx ancestors - Show ancestor tree for a person
• glx cache - Manage the binary archive cache for fast repeated loading
• glx census - Bulk census record tools
• glx cite - Generate formatted citation text from structured fields
• glx cluster - FAN club analysis — find associates of a person
• glx completion - Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
• glx coverage - Show source coverage matrix for a person
• glx descendants - Show descendant tree for a person
• glx diff - Compare two GLX archive states
• glx duplicates - Detect potential duplicate persons in a GLX archive
• glx evidence - Show all evidence for a property, grouped by value
• glx export - Export a GLX archive to GEDCOM or JSON-LD format
• glx import - Import a GEDCOM or GEDZIP file to GLX format
• glx init - Initialize a new GENEALOGIX archive in the specified directory
• glx join - Join a multi-file GLX archive into single-file format
• glx link - Create a FamilySearch citation from an ARK
• glx merge - Merge another archive into the destination archive
• glx merge-persons - Merge two person entities, keeping the first and folding in the second
• glx migrate - Migrate an archive to the current format
• glx path - Find the shortest relationship path between two people
• glx places - Analyze places for ambiguity and completeness
• glx query - Query entities in a GLX archive
• glx rename - Rename an entity ID and update all references
• glx search - Full-text search across all entities
• glx split - Split a single-file GLX archive into multi-file format
• glx stats - Show summary statistics for a GLX archive
• glx summary - Show a comprehensive profile for a person
• glx timeline - Show chronological timeline of events for a person
• glx validate - Validate GLX files and cross-references
• glx vitals - Show vital records for a person