Louis Kessler’s Behold Blog     The Behold User Forum

Is Updating the GEDCOM Standard Necessary? Wrong question, the GEDCOM specification has been updated. The current one in 7.0. The question should be, is updating the GEDCOM implementation to the current specification necessary? As you say 95% of current GEDCOM 5.5.1 implementations are incomplete, ...

Why are you ignoring the latest GEDCOM version 7.0 and stick with the 24 year old one?

A small remark about the summary comparison table: readers should note that sometimes the "max" value is the best (like "Supported") and sometimes the "min" value is the best (like "Imported incorrectly").

Louis, I like your recipe for GEDCOM, I can smell the result already! I am not certain though, what community you (and Justin) are refering to. I do not think it is 'all genealogists'. I think a large part of 'all genealogists' use one program and are satisfied, even when transfering data to an online ...

I run the website Genealogie Online (http://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/) where genealogists can publish their genealogical data (GEDCOM) and images. For this to work, Genealogie Online has to "swallow" a lot of GEDCOM's from several programs (see http://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/stamboom-programma.php for a ...