Editing GEDCOM (section)

==Alternatives==
Commsoft, the authors of the [[Ancestry.com#Past products|Roots]]<ref>[http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=3549 CommSoft to Return?] Dick Eastman Online 3/14/2001 – Archive – Ancestry.com</ref> series of genealogy software and Ultimate Family Tree, defined a version called Event-Oriented GEDCOM (also known as "Event GEDCOM" and originally called InterGED<ref>[http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/TMG/2002-02/1013805198 RootsWeb: TMG-L &#91;TMG&#93; InterGED/Event GEDCOM] Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 13:33:18 -0700</ref>),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sonic.net/~commsoft/rstory.html|title=Commsoft: The Roots Story|access-date=2008-11-20}}</ref> which included events as first class (zero-level) items.  Although it is event based, it is still a model built on assumed reality rather than evidence.  Event GEDCOM was more flexible, as it allowed some separation between believed events and the participants.  However, Event GEDCOM was not widely adopted by other developers due to its semantic differences.{{Citation needed|date=February 2009}}  With Roots and Ultimate Family Tree no longer available, very few people today are using Event GEDCOM.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/TMG/2000-06/0962255126|title=TMGL Archives: Event-oriented|date=2000-06-29|access-date=2008-11-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071101122737/http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/TMG/2000-06/0962255126|archive-date=2007-11-01}}</ref>

[[Gramps (software)#File format|Gramps XML]] is an [[XML]]-based [[open format]] created by the [[open source]] genealogy project [[Gramps (software)|Gramps]] and used also by [[PhpGedView]].

The Family History Information Standards Organisation<!-- "Organisation" is the spelling the FHISO uses. --> was established in 2012 with the aim of developing international standards for family history and genealogical information.<ref>{{cite web |title=Family History Information Standards Organisation |url=http://fhiso.org/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160430173206/https://fhiso.org/ |archive-date=2016-04-30 |access-date=25 April 2016 |publisher=FHISO}}</ref> One of the standards the organization proposed was Extended Legacy Format (ELF), compatible with GEDCOM 5.5(.1), but including an extensibility mechanism. The organization requested public comment on the proposed standard in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Annual Report to Members for 2018 |url=https://fhiso.org/report-2018/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190225053312/https://fhiso.org/report-2018/ |archive-date=2019-02-25 |access-date=2023-02-04 |website=Family History Information Standards Organisation |language=en-US}}</ref> It withdrew the proposal because release 7.0 of GEDCOM addressed many of the organization's concerns.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Richard |date=2021-07-21 |title=FamilySearch GEDCOM 7 |url=https://fhiso.org/2021/07/familysearch-gedcom-7/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210804002707/https://fhiso.org/2021/07/familysearch-gedcom-7/ |archive-date=2021-08-04 |access-date=2023-01-30 |website=Family History Information Standards Organisation |language=en-US}}</ref>