Re: GedCom standards
- From: Steve Hayes <hayesmstw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:10:09 -0700 (PDT)
I wish to be able to clearly and succinctly identify the sources,
and logic used to establish a parent child relationship. This is not
usually as simple as citing an individual source, but for me often
requires establishing a "network" of interlocking bits of evidence.
This does not seem to be supported in many Genealogy programs, and
I've been told that the reason for that is that the capability is
not built into the GedCom standards.
If that's the case, then this would seem to be a severe problem. I
can't think of anything more important than establishing parent
child relationships.
Can anyone confirm that this is in fact a limitation in the GedCom
standards?
Quolla6@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
GEDCOM does seem to require the forming of "family groups".
The program I use for initial entry, Family History System (FHS)
does not require this. You establish the parent-child relationship
by inserting the father and/or mother's ID in the "Father" and
"Mother" fields respectively. You don't have to "marry" the father
and mother first, as most other genealogy programs require.
When the data are exported to GEDCOM, the routine reports "x family
groups created" -- the program has to create them for the GEDCOM
format.
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