Talk:GEDCOM

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I hear there's a GEDCOM XML in beta. Should I assume that all the software will stick with the GEDCOM 5.5 format for some time to come? Bovlb 23:17, 2004 Dec 3 (UTC)

Don't hold your breath. As Dick Eastman notes, 6.0 (XML) has been proposed for over three years and "nothing has happened in that time. Older versions of GEDCOM have been around for more than fifteen years, and only minor improvements have been made in that time. I expect that GEDCOM 6.0 will not appear in genealogy programs for several more years, if ever." -R. S. Shaw 20:35, 24 July 2005 (UTC)


could be very handy to also include download links....

OK, links to GEDCOM 5.5 Standard (Executable file in Envoy format) and Draft Specification for GEDCOM XML 6.0 (PDF) are now in the article. --Bob 02:12, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Errors section

The Errors section seems rather out of place - it makes no sense unless you’re familiar with the format and is ugrammatical to boot. -Ahruman 18:01, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

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