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* [http://pjcj.sytes.net/pjcj.net/html/perl.html#Gedcom.pm Gedcom.pm]
 
* [http://pjcj.sytes.net/pjcj.net/html/perl.html#Gedcom.pm Gedcom.pm]
 
* GEDCOM 5.5.1 draft ([http://www.phpgedview.net/ged551-5.pdf pdf])
 
* GEDCOM 5.5.1 draft ([http://www.phpgedview.net/ged551-5.pdf pdf])
* GEDCOM 6.0 beta ([http://www.familysearch.org/GEDCOM/GedXML60.pdf pdf]) - Note - this effort appears to have been abandoned
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* GEDCOM 6.0 beta ([https://sourceforge.net/projects/gedcomfilter/files/GEDCOM%20XML%20Specification/GEDCOM%20XML%206.0%20Beta/GedXML60.pdf/download archived pdf]) - Note - this effort appears to have been abandoned and the PDF  ([http://www.familysearch.org/GEDCOM/GedXML60.pdf http://www.familysearch.org/GEDCOM/GedXML60.pdf]) document link is invalid on the sponsoring FamilySearch website.
  
 
==GEDCOM Testing==
 
==GEDCOM Testing==

Revision as of 17:59, 23 August 2019

GEDCOM stands for Genealogical Data Communications and is a file format specification developed by the Family and Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It allows different genealogical software programs to share data with each other.

GEDCOM References

GEDCOM Testing

Converting ANSEL to Unicode and back

  • Gramps exports and imports ANSEL GEDCOM, but not all codes are supported. Test the output on the character ? which is used if a character is not understood
  • Perl MARC::Charset module: Available on cpan, and well supported . Can convert MARC8 to Unicode and back. As ANSEL is a subset of MARC8 (consisting of the (extended) latin characters) it will convert all ANSEL GEDCOMS to Unicode. (:arrow:) More info, and a script that can convert: see the attachment to bug 831.
  • marc4j - Java implementation of a convertor, also MARC8 to Unicode. Unclear if it converts correctly combined unicode characters.

ANSEL/MARC References

Unofficial ANSEL to Unicode conversion lists

These cover the original ANSEL spec, now preseded by MARC8.

See also