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FamilySearch released the official version of GEDCOM 7.0 today. You can find it at https://gedcom.io selecting “Specifications” from the menu. The standard is available as PDF or as HTML pages. The PDF is 96 pages, compared to Version 5.5.1 which was 101 pages. The specifications page also has a link to ...

I’ve been an Independent Software Vendor (ISV), i.e. single developer operation, for over 15 years. I have had my products Behold and Double Match Triangulator available for download for the many versions of each of them. I never put adware, spyware, viruses or anything bad in my programs. I pay money each ...

Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge for this week is: I thought I’d do that, following Randy’s template: A) On AncestryDNA, I have 149,270 matches. My Top 10 matches are: * First cousin, mother’s side, 1,047 cM, in tree * First cousin, mother’s side, 914 cM, in tree * ...

It’s been a while since I’ve put my full effort into getting Behold to that next level that would include GEDCOM export and editing. In fact, I have to admit that I really haven’t made a lot of changes to Behold except for bug fixes and a 64-bit executable since 2017. What I did start doing in February ...

@WikiTree #WikiTreeChallenge Wikitree with over 25 million profiles, is the 3rd largest collaborative family tree, after FamilySearch Family Tree and Geni. As the name suggests, the site is designed like a wiki, giving all users ability to contribute and change (preferably with sources) and collaborate ...

Like hundreds of thousands of you, I had been looking forward to this year’s version of #RootsTech2021,  which is completely online and free to everyone. I have attended RootsTech in Salt Lake City three times in person, in 2012, 2014 and 2017. I couldn’t go from 2018 to 2020, but those years ...

Today I got a newsletter from Elizabeth O’Neal, who runs the Heart of the Family site.  The newsletter was about “Getting the Most Out of RootsTech”. What caught my attention was her point 5: “Check your growing list of cousins.” Elizabeth was talking about Relatives at RootsTech, which looks at ...

Yesterday, I released  new version of Double Match Triangulator. This took longer than I hoped, but finally it’s out. In late November, GEDmatch changed the format of their segment match file and also made a change to their one-to-one report, so DMT needed to be updated to handle those. Also in May ...

**UPDATE** June 8:  FamilySearch has released the official version of GEDCOM 7.0. See my blog post: GEDCOM 7.0, Official. It appears that a GEDCOM Version 7.0 Release Candidate will be announced at RootsTech Connect on February 25. This will likely take place in the session by Gordon ...

The GEDCOM standard for transferring genealogical data has been in use basically unchanged for over 20 years now. Just about every genealogy software program can export (some of) its family data to a GEDCOM file, and can import (some of) the family data in a GEDCOM file into its database. The issue is the ...