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tsturg: Yes. See my blog post from 10 Apr 2020: Determining the Accuracy of DNA Tests: https://www.beholdgenealogy.com/blog/?p=3305 - I've now added this into my "followups" at the end of the article.

cconser: I am strongly of the opinion that formatting and punctuation have no place in GEDCOM. GEDCOM is for transferring data. Formatting and punctuation should be left up to your software. It should decide how it wants to display something. You should not force anything on it. See my article: ...

cconser: I wrote a bit about it in my 2015 article: Is GEDCOM Good For Sources? https://www.beholdgenealogy.com/blog/?p=1480

Uwe: There's never a guarantee that data in a shared tree is accurate, just like there isn't a guarantee that the data in anyone's family research is accurate. But there's nothing wrong with any of us contributing to a tree to help make it more accurate. They key for me is that I at least want my family ...

Hi Uwe, I'm putting my information, which I trust, up on FamilySearch, for others to access and possibly connect to. I always evaluate any information I get from FamilySearch (or from anyone else's genealogy for that matter) before adding it to my family tree. Louis

Yes, Colin. Today they removed everything. Don't know why yet.

I agree with you, Uwe. My next post (which I'm working on now) is going to be titled "Fiction versus Fact".

Thanks JBonevich for letting me know that link is gone. I'll remove it from my article. You might still be able to find the document at archive.org. GEDCOM specs are still technically copywritten documents by the LDS Church. Hopefully one day, they'll make all their early GEDCOM specs available to everyone.

Thanks Randy. Setting up a new computer is only a week out of one's life. Couldn't be a better time to do it than while you're self-isolating.

Stefan, GEDCOM 5.5.5 simply cleans up GEDCOM 5.5.1. It makes the rules clearer and eliminates multiple ways of doing things. It does not add anything new. So anything that could not be exported in GEDCOM 5.5.1 still cannot be exported in 5.5.5 and you'll have to use the same or a very slightly modified ...