Editing GEDCOM (section)

===Release history===

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! GEDCOM version
! Release date
! Notes
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! {{Version|o|1.0<ref name="beitrag103" >[https://archive.today/20130105083459/http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/pafuser/message/103 pafuser : Beitrag: Re: &#91;pafuser&#93; PAF 5.01 und GEDCOM] By Eckhard Henkel – Beitrag #103 von 1494 – Yahoo Groups</ref>}}
| 1984<ref>[http://listserv.nodak.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind9407D&L=GEDCOM-L&P=R519&I=-3 Subject:description of InterGED theory] From:Gary Steiner – "The first GEDCOM standard, version 1.0, was released to the genealogical software development community in 1984." – GEDCOM-L Archives – July 1994, week 4 (#14)</ref>
| –
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! {{Version|o|2.0<ref name="beitrag103" />}}
| Dec 1985<ref name="timeline2000" >[http://listserv.nodak.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0011C&L=GEDCOM-L&P=R645&I=-3&m=5582 Subject:Timeline of GEDCOM versions and PAF] By George Archer – GEDCOM-L Archives – November 2000, week 3 (#12)</ref>
| [[Personal Ancestral File|PAF]] 2.0
|-
! {{Version|o|2.1}}
| Feb 1987<ref name="timeline2000" />
| GEDCOM for PAF 2.1
|-
! {{Version|o|2.3 Draft}}
| 7 August 1985<ref name="starkey59" >[http://listserv.nodak.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0006D&L=GEDCOM-L&T=0&F=&I=-3&S=&P=59 Subject:Re: GEDCOM standards help please] From:Graham Starkey – "DRAFT VERSION 2.3–7 August 1985 with PAF2.0 GEDCOM implementation conventions" – GEDCOM-L Archives – June 2000, week 4 (#1)</ref>
| with PAF2.0 GEDCOM implementation conventions
|-
! {{Version|o|2.4 Draft}}
| 13 December 1985<ref name="starkey59" />
| with PAF2.0 GEDCOM implementation conventions
|-
! {{Version|o|3.0 Standard<ref name="beitrag103" />}}
| 9 October 1987<ref>[http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/ROOTS/1990-02/0634862536-01 RootsWeb: ROOTS-L Re: Large Charts (fairly long)]:Date:Tue, 11 Jul 89 15:14:31 CDT From: Marty Hoag <NU021172@N...> Subject:Re: Printing trees with PAF? From soc.roots ... * GEDCOM release 3.0, 9 Oct 1987, 131 pages (!)</ref>
| PAF 2.0 and 2.1 implementation of 3.0
|-
! {{Version|o|4.0 Standard}}
| August 1989
| PAF 2.1 – 2.31
|-
! {{Version|o|4.1 Draft<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://listserv.nodak.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind9410A&L=GEDCOM-L&P=R880&I=-3&T=0|title=LISTSERV - GEDCOM-L Archives - LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU|website=listserv.nodak.edu}}</ref>}}
| –
| –
|-
! {{Version|o|4.2 Draft<ref>[https://groups.google.com/group/soc.genealogy.computing/browse_thread/thread/bddc9724596065ed/fc70b4faae5128a4?lnk=gst&q=gedcom+released#fc70b4faae5128a4 File Structures for PAF and GEDCOM] – Date: 1996/01/04 – soc.genealogy.computing | Google Groups:</ref>}}
| 25 January 1990<!--may be wrong--><ref>[http://listserv.nodak.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind9405A&L=GEDCOM-L&T=0&F=&I=-3&S=&P=1781 Subject:4.x specs] From:Rafal Prinke -"while this document has the date January 25, 1990. So maybe it is GEDCOM 4.2 ?" – GEDCOM-L Archives – May 1994, week 1 (#19)</ref>
| –
|-
! {{Version|o|5.0 Draft<ref name="beitrag103" />}}
| 31 December 1991<ref name="starkey59" />
| lineage-linked structures were introduced.<ref name="jedfuture" >[http://listserv.nodak.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind9805A&L=GEDCOM-L&P=R2&I=-3&T=0 Subject: GEDCOM (Future Direction) Announced by Family History] From: "Jed R. Allen" Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 18:08:24 -0600</ref>
|-
! {{Version|o|5.1 Draft}}
| 18 September 1992<ref name="timeline2000" />
| –
|-
! {{Version|o|5.2 Draft}}
| 22 January 1992<ref>[http://listserv.nodak.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0006D&L=GEDCOM-L&T=0&F=&I=-3&S=&P=59 Subject:Re: GEDCOM standards help please] From:Graham Starkey – "DRAFT Release 5.2–22 January 1992   120kb" – GEDCOM-L Archives – June 2000, week 4 (#1)</ref>
| –
|-
! {{Version|o|5.3 Draft}}
| 4 November 1993<ref>[http://ftp.aset.psu.edu/genealogy/gedcom55/gedstand.t82 GEDCOM 5.3 draft] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100722012217/http://ftp.aset.psu.edu/genealogy/gedcom55/gedstand.t82 |date=2010-07-22 }} – 4 November 1993</ref>
| [[Unicode]] standard ([[ISO/IEC 10646]]) was introduced as an additional character set.
|-
! {{Version|o|5.4 Draft}}
| 21 August 1995<ref>[http://www.lege.com/gedcom54.html  THE GEDCOM STANDARD] – DRAFT Release 5.4–21 August 1995</ref>
| –
|-
! {{Version|o|5.5 Standard}}
| 11 December 1995<ref>[http://listserv.nodak.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0011C&L=GEDCOM-L&P=R645&I=-3&T=0 Subject:Timeline of GEDCOM versions and PAF] By George Archer – "5.5 11 Dec 1995 (Title Page for 5.5)"- GEDCOM-L Archives – November 2000, week 3 (#12)</ref>
| PAF 3, 4 and 5
|-
! {{Version|co|[http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pmcbride/gedcom/55gctoc.htm 5.5 Standard]}}
| January 2, 1996<ref>[http://www.familysearch.org/GEDCOM/GEDCOM55.EXE GEDCOM 5.5 Standard] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061120085819/http://www.familysearch.org/gedcom/gedcom55.exe |date=2006-11-20 }} (Executable file in Envoy format)</ref><ref>[http://listserv.nodak.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind9608B&L=GEDCOM-L&P=R89&I=-3&T=0 Re: Looking for GEDCOM versions 4 & 5.xx] "Brian C. Madsen" – "A GEDCOM 5.5 Errata Sheet dated 10 January 1996 supposedly contains corrections to pages 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 29, 29, 33, 34, 39, 57, 79, and 85."</ref>
| PAF 3, 4 and 5 / [http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pmcbride/gedcom/55gctoc.htm 5.5 Standard]<ref>[https://chronoplexsoftware.com/gedcomvalidator/gedcom/index.htm Gedcom Documentation Library]  {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160601054626/https://chronoplexsoftware.com/gedcomvalidator/gedcom/index.htm |date=June 1, 2016 }}, Chronoplex Software</ref>
|-
! {{Version|o|GEDCOM (Future Direction) Draft<ref name="jedfuture" /><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200312132308/ftp://ftp.ldschurch.org/genealogy/GEDCOM/Future/Gedfmstr.pdf GEDCOM Specification Future Direction] (1999-07-07)</ref>}}
| May 1, 1998<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://listserv.nodak.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0002C&L=GEDCOM-L&P=R351&I=-3|title=LISTSERV - GEDCOM-L Archives - LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU|website=listserv.nodak.edu}}</ref><ref>[http://xml.coverpages.org/gedcomments9808.html Comments on the GEDCOM Future Directions document] Michael H. Kay, 17 May 1998</ref>
| "it used an entirely new data model"<ref>[http://listserv.nodak.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind9805B&L=GEDCOM-L&P=R154&I=-3 Subject:GEDCOM Future Directions] – From:John Nairn – Date:Mon, 11 May 1998 13:38:45 -0600 – GEDCOM-L Archives – May 1998, week 2 (#3)</ref>
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! {{Version|o|5.5.1 Draft<ref>[http://www.softwarerenovation.com/igenie/GEDCOM.aspx GEDCOM 5.51 data model in UML format] – Software Renovation Corporation</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wiki-en.genealogy.net/Gedcom_5.5.1|title=Gedcom 5.5.1 – GenWiki|website=wiki-en.genealogy.net|access-date=2009-02-11|archive-date=2019-06-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190604095318/http://wiki-en.genealogy.net/Gedcom_5.5.1|url-status=dead}}</ref>}}
| October 2, 1999<ref name="GEDCOM 5.5.1 draft"/>
| Used by FamilySearch.org<ref name="GEDCOM 5.5.1 draft"/> [[UTF-8]] added as an approved character encoding.
|-
! {{Version|co|5.5.1 Release<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://edge.fscdn.org/assets/img/documents/ged551-5bac5e57fe88dd37df0e153d9c515335.pdf|title=THE GEDCOM STANDARD Release 5.5.1}}</ref>}}
| November 15, 2019
| current standard, minor text modifications to 5.5.1 Draft.
|-
! {{Version|o|5.6 Private Draft}}
| -<!--before Feb 20, 2001--><ref>[http://listserv.nodak.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0102c&L=gedcom-l&T=0&I=-3&P=63 Subject:Re: GEDCOM History] From:STEFANO BOSCOLO – Date:Tue, 20 Feb 2001 19:54:06 +0100 – GEDCOM-L Archives – February 2001, week 3 (#1)</ref>
| "Jed Allen sent those two files to a few people only for sort of "private comments"<ref>[http://listserv.nodak.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0102c&L=gedcom-l&T=0&I=-3&P=331 Subject: Re: GEDCOM History] From:"Rafal T. Prinke" – Date:Tue, 20 Feb 2001 22:14:55 +0100 – GEDCOM-L Archives – February 2001, week 3 (#4)</ref>
|-
! {{Version|o|6.0 XML Draft}}
| December 28, 2001<ref name="xml gedcom">{{Cite web |url=http://www.familysearch.org/GEDCOM/GedXML60.pdf |title=Draft Specification for GEDCOM XML 6.0 |website=[[FamilySearch]] |access-date=2006-11-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061116032407/http://www.familysearch.org/GEDCOM/GedXML60.pdf |archive-date=2006-11-16 }}</ref>
|Was not a complete specification, and not recommended to begin to software implementations.
|-
! {{Version|o|7.0.0-rc1 Draft}}
| February 2021<ref name="GEDCOM 7.0 draft">{{Cite web |url=http://gedcom.io/ |title=Web site for GEDCOM 7.0 |access-date=2021-02-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225095749/http://gedcom.io/ |archive-date=2021-02-25}}</ref>
|Release candidate revealed for RootsTech 2021, but then all talks, specifications and the web site were removed on 25 February 2021<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://beholdgenealogy.com/blog/?p=3724 |title=GEDCOM 7.0 at Louis Kessler's Behold Blog |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511122903/https://beholdgenealogy.com/blog/?p=3724 |archive-date=2021-05-11 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! {{Version|o|7.0<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/FamilySearch/GEDCOM/releases/download/v7.0.9/gedcom.pdf|title=The FamilySearch GEDCOM Specification Release 7.0.9|website=[[GitHub]] }}</ref>}}
| 27 May 2021
| Modernize character encoding, clarify ambiguities in 5.5.1 specification, introduce semantic versioning, improve multimedia handling
|-
! {{Version|c|7.0.13<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/FamilySearch/GEDCOM/releases/download/v7.0.13/gedcom.pdf|title=The FamilySearch GEDCOM Specification Release 7.0.9|website=[[GitHub]] }}</ref>}}
| 4 August 2023
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