The GEDCOM standard

Draft Release 5.3

4 November 1993

Prepared by the
Family History Department
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Suggestions and Correspondence:
GEDCOM Coordinator - 3T
Family History Department
50 East North Temple
Salt Lake City, UT 84150
USA

Telephone (USA)

801-240-4534
801-240-5225

Copyright  1987, 1989, 1992, 1993 by Corporation of the President of 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.

Table of contents

• Introduction
  • Purpose and Content of Document
  • Changes in Version 5.x
  • GEDCOM Product Registration
  • GEDCOM Software Library
• Chapter 1 - Data Representation Grammar
  • Concepts
  • Grammar
  • Usage Description
• Chapter 2 - Lineage-linked Grammar
  • Introduction
  • Lineage-linked Grammar Organization
  • Record Structures of the Lineage-linked Form
  • Substructures of the Lineage-linked Form
  • Primitive Elements of the Lineage-linked Form
  • Compatibility with other GEDCOM versions
  • Packaging the GEDCOM Transmission File
  • User Defined Tags
  • Sample Lineage-linked GEDCOM Transmission
  • Sample EVENT_RECORD
• Chapter 3 - Using Character Sets in GEDCOM
  • 8-bit ANSEL
  • Unicode (ISO 10646)
• Appendix A - Lineage-linked GEDCOM Tag Definition
• Appendix B - Proposed Event and Role Tags
• Appendix C - ANSEL Character Set