Early Gedcom Version Specs

[Peter J Seymour]

I've been looking around for the spec for early Gedcom versions (for
instance 4.0) without success. The most I can find is references to
some of the content. But why would you want it, you ask. I'm fine tuning
a Gedcom input module and I am trying to make sure that everything I do
has a documented basis.
Any ideas anyone?
Regards
Peter
http://www.gendatam.com/

[Joe Makowiec]

On 19 Jan 2006 in soc.genealogy.computing, Peter J Seymour wrote:

I've been looking around for the spec for early Gedcom versions (for
instance 4.0) without success. The most I can find is references to
some of the content. But why would you want it, you ask. I'm fine
tuning a Gedcom input module and I am trying to make sure that
everything I do has a documented basis.
Any ideas anyone?

The GEDCOM standard comes from the Family History Department; why not get
in touch with them? From the GEDCOM 5.5 standard:

Mail:
Family History Department
GEDCOM Coordinator—3T
50 East North Temple Street
Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA

Telephone:
801-240-4534
801-240-5225

--
Joe Makowiec
http://makowiec.org/
Email: http://makowiec.org/contact/?Joe

[Bill Kinnersley]

Here's version 5.3 -

http://user.it.uu.se/~andersa/gedcom/

and version 5.4 -

http://www.lege.com/gedcom54.html

Can't find 3.0 or 4.0 -- maybe that's because they were released in the
1980's and hence too ancient to be on the web. But already 5.3 and 5.4 are
radically different!

Bill K.

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I've been looking around for the spec for early Gedcom versions (for
instance 4.0) without success. The most I can find is references to some
of the content. But why would you want it, you ask. I'm fine tuning a
Gedcom input module and I am trying to make sure that everything I do has
a documented basis.
Any ideas anyone?
Regards
Peter
http://www.gendatam.com/