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Questions tagged [gedcom]

For questions about the use of GEDCOM files, the de facto standard file format for exchange of genealogical data. GEDCOM is an acronym for GEnealogical Data COMmunication.

GEDCOM (an acronym for Genealogical Data Communication) is a plain text file format developed by the LDS Church to exchange genealogical data. The data is structured in a lineage-linked model, consisting of individual (INDI), family (FAM), and source (SOUR) records.

The latest version used by most genealogy programs is GEDCOM Standard 5.5.1 (1999), although this technically is still a draft specification.

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Parsing a GEDCOM

I have a need to parse GEDCOM files to extract: For all Individuals: their (primary) surname, given names, plus a unique ID, and life dates (birth/baptism/christening - death/burial) For all mentioned Places: as many comma-delimited fields as…
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How to merge Gedcom files?

A relative has sent me five GEDCOM files of different family branches. They are partly redundant, their content is formatted differently and place names are inconsistent. While most programs offer merging functionality, including Gramps and…
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Creating GEDCOM diff of all people in one GEDCOM but not another?

How can I create a GEDCOM diff of all people in one GEDCOM but not the other.? I have just got wikitree up to date with one branch of my ancestry tree much that I originally imported into wikitree a year previously, this entailed uploading a GEDOM…
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Is there a GEDCOM processing tool to determine lineage society eligibility?

It is a lot of work and hard to determine if you have ancestors that have lineage societies (for example, Mayflower, Brewster, Society of the Cincinnati, DAR, ...). There are quite a lot of lineage societies and everyone has quite a few ancestors.…
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What GEDCOM tag is used for overseas travel?

I have an individual who travelled by ship to England and stayed 3 years upon returning to Australia. I wish to record the details but am unsure what event to do so under. It was not immigration/emigration. Is there a tag or event within GEDCOM I…
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GEDCOM NOTE_RECORD vs. embedded note

I'll start off with a little GEDCOM background information before firing off my questions. The GEDCOM 5.5.1 specification distinguishes record structures (which have xref-ids) from substructures which are contained in records. For notes, there is a…
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Blank FAMC tags when exporting from ancestry.com, causing parentless children when imported to geneanet.org

I have been exporting my personal family tree from ancestry.com via the built-in GEDCOM export feature. This tree has about 36,000 members. However, when I import the GEDCOM file to geneanet.org, I happened to find a set of siblings that were…
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How to define a "patchwork-family" in GEDCOM?

I would like to know how i can define a "patchwork-family" in GEDCOM, that is: a child in a family is adopted by one parent, but is the biological child of the other parent.
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GEDCOM: how to declare two different individual records as the same person?

If a person changes the gender or the name or both: how can I interlink the two individuals in GEDCOM to declare them as the same person?
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Including a gedcom within a gedcom

I have a large gedcom which I am wish to break into several different gedcoms. For example, I am trying to break out my half sisters tree and my tree into separate gedcoms. We have a common father, different mother. I would like to have a gedcom of…
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Querying GEDCOM file to find people with missing parent(s)?

I have a Gedcom file that I want to query for a person with at least one missing person. How can I achieve this? I am not a software coder but fairly technical otherwise.
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Gedcom file with Person/Individual containing multiple Places/Residences

I want to create a Gedcom file which contains information about the places where the person lived in the course of his life. But in GEDCOM 5.5.1 as I understood it the ADDR & RESI tags contain only one address but there is no tag for multiple…
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Identifying root individual in GEDCOM

My question is very basic, but I need to make sure of the answer before venturing into a project. I've looked everywhere for an answer but I can't find anything concrete. Is the root individual in a Gedcom the first INDI record in the Gedcom, the…
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Printing ancestry report to specific ancestor

I am trying to print out an ancestry report to one specific ancestor (mainly as a worksheet for a couple membership applications). All I've ever been able to find are things like "fan" reports, or long lists of EVERYONE in each generation. I want…
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Generations extension download for genealogy programs

I restored my computer and lost my generation extension downloaded program. Does anyone have this link? It produced a small icon in the top left of my FTDNA program and other genealogy programs.
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