GEDCOM is a “standard” format devised by the Church of the Latter Day Saints<\/a> to support GEnealogical Data COMmunication of family history records.<\/p>\n There is an excellent and detailed article on the history and use of GEDCOM on the Encyclopedia of Genealogy<\/a>.<\/p>\n There is also a useful GEDCOM page<\/a> in Wikipedia.<\/p>\n As of version 7, Family Historian supports GEDCOM Standard Release 5.5.1. Later releases of Version 7, and Version 8, also import and export GEDCOM 7, the latest release of the standard, and GEDZIP files, which bundle a GEDCOM file and its media into one compressed file; GEDZIP is the recommended way of passing data and pictures together to another \u0192h<\/span><\/span> user or (Version 8) to Family Historian Mobile.<\/p>\n Family Historian (\u0192h<\/span><\/span>) stores its information directly in a GEDCOM file and (from \u0192h<\/span><\/span> version 7) exports it by default as UTF-8 without a BOM, which will work for a variety of destinations. \u0192h<\/span><\/span> 8’s Export Gedcom File<\/a> dialog has a Destination setting that chooses sensible options for you: leave it at Default for another \u0192h<\/span><\/span> 8 user, or pick Family Historian 7 (which leaves out Address records, unknown to Version 7), Family Historian 6 or earlier, Family Tree Maker, or GEDCOM 7. Earlier versions of \u0192h<\/span><\/span> used different formats, so take care to check compatibility with your intended destination. In all versions, you may need to use additional tools to prepare your data.<\/p>\n These tools include the Split Tree Helper,<\/a> Import\/Export > Export > GEDCOM<\/a> File, Utility ~ RJT Family Historian Converter<\/a>, Utility ~ Res Privata – Gedcom Privatisation<\/a>, and Family Historian Plugins such as Export Gedcom File<\/a>.<\/p>\n One thing worth remembering is that most other genealogy programs do not use GEDCOM as their standard format in the way \u0192h<\/span><\/span> does, so when sending a file to people not using \u0192h<\/span><\/span>, make sure you tell them they will need to use the Import or Merge option to load the GEDCOM data into their program.<\/p>\n For more information see the Import and Export topics.<\/p>\n The standard fields defined by GEDCOM have Tag names, such as SEX, DATE, NOTE, or NAME, that are followed by their data value.<\/p>\n GEDCOM allows custom user-defined fields with an underscore (_) prefix on the field Tag names, such as _ROOT, _EMAIL, or _TYPE, to distinguish them from standard Tag names.<\/p>\n\u0192h<\/span><\/span> uses these to support additional functionality. See the GEDCOM Extension List<\/a>.<\/p>\n Some genealogy products add custom fields without an underscore (_) prefix and are thus invalid GEDCOM. These and any other unrecognised field Tag names imported to \u0192h<\/span><\/span> are treated as Uncategorised Data Fields (UDF)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","fh_version":[13,14,15,739,826],"skill_level":[18,17,16],"topic":[66,93],"class_list":["post-9756","kb_article","type-kb_article","status-publish","hentry","fh_version-v4","fh_version-v5","fh_version-v6","fh_version-v7","fh_version-v8","search_term-gedcom","skill_level-advanced","skill_level-intermediate","skill_level-newcomer","topic-fh-folders-and-files","topic-gedcom-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/9756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb_article"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/9756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11078,"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/9756\/revisions\/11078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"fh_version","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fh_version?post=9756"},{"taxonomy":"skill_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/skill_level?post=9756"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Family Historian<\/h3>\n
GEDCOM Extensions<\/h3>\n