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Looks like the book is still available, though I don't know how specific it is to PAF, which I no longer use actively. The group still seems to be active - judging by their calendar of meetings and events. See: http://svpafug.org/index.html By now I have a better idea of what I should do, but am often ...

Louis, I very much agree that support for sources have been reasonably well covered in GEDCOM - especially, considering when the standard was 'published'. The (very evident) problem is that the people who write/wrote the software and most of those who used it, were really only name collectors and either, ...

Thank you Louis, that is really good news! Have fun with the documentation!

Louis, That's right. You can take elements from A2A, or Dublin Core, whatever you like, but things can get easily out of hand if you take too many. When you need more than a dozen, I think something's wrong. Enno

Is it just me, or is the guy at the computer (gif image on Future Plans page) sitting up taller and typing faster?? :)

Louis, yes, it can be done, but I prefer for Film: 1234567, Frame: 344, Line: 28 to appear in separate GEDCOM tags, like FILM, PAGE, and LINE, because that makes things less dependent on language, and more straight-forward to parse, IMO. Sources referencing other sources with a similar construct to how ...

Louis, I call it realism. The APIs that I see now serve a vertical market, where data exchange is centralized and controlled by the big companies and FamilySearch, and where, interestingly, when it comes to handling evidence, FamilySearch does a much better job than its commercial partners, as you can read in ...