What is a GEDCOM and how do I get one?
2007-03-25 05:39:51 · 3 answers · asked by ♥Trinity♥ 4 in Family & Relationships ➔ Other - Family & Relationships
GEDCOM, an acronym for GEnealogical Data COMmunication, is a specification for exchanging genealogical data between different genealogy software. GEDCOM was developed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as an aid in their extensive genealogical research. A GEDCOM file is plain text (an obscure text encoding named ANSEL, though often in ASCII in the United States) containing genealogical information about individuals, and data linking these records together. Most genealogy software supports importing from and/or exporting to GEDCOM format. The GEDCOM TestBook Project evaluates how well popular genealogy programs conform to the GEDCOM 5.5 standard. Additionally, many tools exist to convert GEDCOM files to HTML pages
HOPE I HELPED :)
2007-03-25 06:26:35 · answer #1 · answered by No Name 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The previous answer is correct. What he didn't say is that Mormons use it so that they can baptise their dead ancestors into the Mormon faith. How disgusting is that?
2007-04-01 03:39:28 · answer #2 · answered by canucklehead1951 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
IT IS CANUCKLEHEAD1951! But the dead is dead. Nothing can be done to it.
2016-06-03 04:44:33 · answer #3 · answered by Carmen S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋