Month: October 2019

GED-inline is an online GEDCOM validator. It has been around since 2011. Just upload your GEDCOM to the service and get an instant report. Now, developer Nigel Munro Parker has open-sourced the validation component. It’s available at Github via https://github.com/nigel-parker/gedinline This makes validating GEDCOM files even more accessible for developers. Generated by CFTREE Submitted by…

Now that the grammar of GEDCOM 5.5.5 is available in plain-text, a comparison with GEDCOM 5.5.1 is now also possible. Inspired by Kevin Routley’s GEDCOM Grammars : 5.5 vs 5.5.1 comparison, I’ve put the current GEDCOM version next to its predecessor. The following color-coding is used in the comparison table:     5.5.1 construct not…

Twenty years after the release of GEDCOM 5.5.1, version 5.5.5 was released. It’s just a relative small revision, but still, some progress as last. Adoption of GEDCOM 5.5.5 – which is now the current version – is not promoted by the way the specification is distributed: in a ZIP-ed PDF document on the newly revived…