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GEDCOM & same-sex partners

  • 22-11-2009 12:15am
    #1
    zagmund
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,501 ✭✭✭


    Guys, I've just run into the problem that I can't record a same-sex relationship in my family using PAF5 - http://www.familysearch.org

    From what I've dug up on google and wikipedia, it looks like the GEDCOM standard for interchange doesn't support it. This seems very, very odd in this day and age.

    Does anyone know what the story is here ? Since GEDCOM is used for sharing data between applications (and people) this means that even if your application supports recording same-sex relationships you lose that data if you share the information with anyone else in your family.

    Am I missing something or is this really the case ?

    z


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  • #2
    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,672 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    The program I use: www.genopro.com supports it as well as things like adoptive children, fraternal vs identical twins, etc. It is based on gedcom. PAF is a Mormon program and afaik they aren't noted for their same-sex relationship tolerance, so it may be deliberate.

    On a more scholarly level, ancestry is concerned with blood relationships so a lot of purists (though not me) wouldn't represent homosexual relationships or adopted kids on an official tree....but they'd have it mentioned in the notes on the relevant person.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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