In theory, if everyone assumes that the GEDCOM is a standardised format. Unfortunately, it is not, and was released in 1996 for the 5.5.1 version. There was a XML version designed in 2002 which never went anywhere. Look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEDCOM.
Anyone, including Legacy, has the ability to add their own additional records and structures to a GEDCOM file. Plus, it does not support the more modern functionality, like the ability in Legacy to share events across multiple people, unless they have fixed that in V9. Everyone has their own interpretation of what they will support and , for a basic list of people, dates, locations it is good. Try to go past that and you will find differences. Sources can be an issue and so can multiple parents and adoptions, let alone the same-sex marriages. Throw Ancestry, FindMyPast etc into that and it just get worse. The Family History Information Standards Organisation (FHISO) was started in 2012 and has just released its very first draft standards for public comment, at the end of June. Something that I need to review. Hopefully, if we can get everyone supporting a single standard, with no exceptions, we will then be able to transfer data with no loss. Regards Chris From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Leonard J. McCown Sent: 10 July 2017 18:39 To: 'Legacy User Group' <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Problem with V8.0.0.602 and V8.0.0.604 Chris, I thought that the GEDCOM format was supposed to help transfer your data from one program to another with the basic information traveling. I moved from Family Roots, to Personal Ancestral File, to Ancestral Quest with no problems in the past. Leonard --------------------- ____________________________________________________________________________ _ Leonard J. McCown, Irving, Texas -- McCown Family History 217 West 14th Street, Irving, Texas 75060-5903 972-254-7952 <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] -- <http://www.mccown.org> http://www.mccown.org People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. -- Edmund Burke, 1790 ____________________________________________________________________________ _ From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Hill Sent: Monday, July 10, 2017 11:18 AM To: 'Legacy User Group' <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Problem with V8.0.0.602 and V8.0.0.604 That is a different question. I think I would find the hashtags useful, and possibly a couple of the other additions, but most of them are, to me, pointless. The one thing that I do want, and will never get, is a standardised interface API between the different genealogy programs and the online systems, so that we can accurately and easily transfer information with no loss. Regards Chris
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