GEDCOM 5.5.1 Specification GEDCOM-L Addendum Page 1

GEDCOM 5.5.1 Specification GEDCOM-L Addendum Page 1

GEDCOM 5.5.1 Specification GEDCOM-L Addendum Creator: GEDCOM-L group of Verein für Computergenealogie e.V. (Computer Genealogy Society of Germany) Editors: - Dr. Albert Emmerich - Diedrich Hesmer First Release: 2020-01-01 You can find a copy of this document at https://genealogy.net/GEDCOM This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. GEDCOM 5.5.1 Specification GEDCOM-L Addendum Page 1 1 Copyright This publication, The GEDCOM 5.5.1 Specification GEDCOM-L Addendum is based on the GEDCOM 5.5.1 Specification, which is a minor update of the GEDCOM 5.5 Specification. The GEDCOM 5.5 and 5.5.1 specifications were created by FamilySearch. The FamilySearch GEDCOM 5.5.1 specification, dated 15 November 2019, contains the following copyright notice: Copyright © 1987, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2019 by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This document may be copied for purposes of review or programming of genealogical software, provided this notice is included. All other rights reserved. This publication, the GEDCOM 5.5.1 Specification GEDCOM-L Addendum, is published for the purposes of review and programming of genealogical software. It is based on The GEDCOM 5.5.1 Specification and an in-depth and in-place review (for the purposes of programming) of the FamilySearch GEDCOM 5.5.1 specification done by the Members of GEDCOM-L Group. This document is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License – see the front page. GEDCOM 5.5.1 Specification GEDCOM-L Addendum Page 2 Table of Contents 1 Copyright ......................................................................................................................................... 2 2 Purpose ............................................................................................................................................ 6 3 Convention ...................................................................................................................................... 7 3.1 GEDCOM File ........................................................................................................................... 7 3.2 GEDCOM Records .................................................................................................................... 7 3.3 GEDCOM Lines ......................................................................................................................... 7 Sub-lines Notation ........................................................................................................... 7 3.4 GEDCOM Structures ................................................................................................................ 7 3.5 GEDCOM Tags .......................................................................................................................... 7 3.6 Additions, Modifications and Explanations ............................................................................. 7 Marking of Modification .................................................................................................. 8 4 Top-Level Record Structures ........................................................................................................... 9 4.1 HEADER .................................................................................................................................... 9 4.2 RECORD ................................................................................................................................. 10 4.3 FAM_RECORD ........................................................................................................................ 10 4.4 INDI_RECORD ........................................................................................................................ 11 4.5 MULTIMEDIA_RECORD .......................................................................................................... 11 4.6 SOURCE_RECORD .................................................................................................................. 12 4.7 SUBMITTER_RECORD ............................................................................................................ 12 4.8 LOCATION_RECORD............................................................................................................... 13 5 Substructures and Primitive Elements .......................................................................................... 14 5.1 ADDR Structure ..................................................................................................................... 14 5.2 AGE Line ................................................................................................................................. 15 5.3 ALIA Line ................................................................................................................................ 15 5.4 ASSO / _ASSO Structure ........................................................................................................ 16 5.5 CHAR Line .............................................................................................................................. 17 5.6 CONT Line .............................................................................................................................. 17 5.7 DATE Line ............................................................................................................................... 17 5.8 EVENT_DETAILS ..................................................................................................................... 18 5.9 FAMILY_EVENT_STRUCTURE ................................................................................................. 18 5.10 INDIVIDUAL_ATTRIBUTE_STRUCTURE .................................................................................. 19 5.11 INDIVIDUAL_EVENT_STRUCTURE .......................................................................................... 20 5.12 MULTIMEDIA_LINK ................................................................................................................ 21 GEDCOM 5.5.1 Specification GEDCOM-L Addendum Page 3 5.13 NAME Structure ..................................................................................................................... 23 "Rufname" ..................................................................................................................... 23 5.14 PLAC_STRUCTURE.................................................................................................................. 24 5.15 RESN Line ............................................................................................................................... 25 5.16 SEX Line ................................................................................................................................. 26 5.17 SOURCE_CITATION ................................................................................................................ 26 5.18 STATUS_STRUCTURE / _STAT ................................................................................................ 27 5.19 SUBM Record ......................................................................................................................... 28 5.20 XREF Line ............................................................................................................................... 28 6 General Items ................................................................................................................................ 29 6.1 Syntax of GEDCOM Lines ....................................................................................................... 29 Minimum Content of a GEDCOM Line ........................................................................... 29 Terminator ..................................................................................................................... 29 Use of UNICODE-Characters .......................................................................................... 29 Handling of @ in Line_Item ........................................................................................... 29 6.2 Field Size ................................................................................................................................ 30 7 User-defined Tags .......................................................................................................................... 31 7.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 31 7.2 Location Record ..................................................................................................................... 31 Syntax ............................................................................................................................ 32 Example of Hierarchical _LOC Records .......................................................................... 34 7.3 _SCHEMA_STRUCTURE .......................................................................................................... 36 7.4 _UID Line ............................................................................................................................... 37 8 Appendix ........................................................................................................................................ 39 8.1 Further Functionality under Discussion ...............................................................................

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