(+) It's 2017 – Do You Know Where Your Data Is?

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How do I convert data from one genealogy program to another, including notes, facts, and photos?

All of today’s genealogy programs support GEDCOM data exchange. GEDCOM is a more-or-less standard file format designed especially for exchanging genealogy data between different software packages. In theory, GEDCOM should do the job. However, anyone who has used GEDCOM extensively can tell you about the many pitfalls involved.

GEDCOM was invented as a file format in the 1980s and has had a very few updates since then. However, there have been no major updates at all in more than ten years. An XML version of GEDCOM was proposed nearly some years ago, but nothing has happened with the proposal since then. The XML proposal has never been implemented in any of today’s genealogy programs. Meanwhile, genealogy software has become much more advanced in recent years, and the existing GEDCOM standard no longer can accurately transfer all the data between dissimilar programs.

Specifically, GEDCOM was invented long before the common use of digital photographs, sound files, slideshows, and other multimedia offerings that are commonplace today. A later update of GEDCOM added a method of specifying where such multimedia files exist on the originating system, but there is no method of converting a complete slideshow or other advanced multimedia creation from one software package to another.

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