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For questions about the use of GEDCOM files, the de facto standard file format for exchange of genealogical data. GEDCOM is an acronym for GEnealogical Data COMmunication.

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Parsing a GEDCOM

Similar to GEDScape it has some some export functions and can import and export and manipulate GEDCOM files using its template function to basically parse and create custom text, postscript and reports …
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Is there software to display who lived at a certain time and place?

Mac Family Tree available on the iTunes store for Mac does this under Views->Timeline. It allows you to zoom in and such. What it does not currently do is allow you to filter so if you have a lot of J …
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How to split up the disconnected trees in a GEDCOM forest into separate files?

I have a increasingly growing GEDCOM file and know I have many islands in it, some intentional and some not intentional. … Many genealogy software tools have a feature to export a GEDCOM file either in its entirety or filtered data, or even Ancestors of X person or Descendants of Y person. …
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What GEDCOM tag should the DNA Haplogroup be stored?

I was reviewing the GEDCOM 5.5 specification and I am not clear as to what field should be used to store the basic Haplogroup information for an individual from DNA testing as described in What information … Currently I am using "Ethnic Origin" in MacFamilyTree.. but I do not see a Ethnic Origin tag in the GEDCOM standard. The GEDCOM export of the above data exports under RACE tag. …
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