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GEDCOM and GEDCOM X

Exchange Schema Genealogy openly published

The official website for the GEDCOM specification used for storing and sharing genealogical information....

FamilySearch, from their own og:description

What I make of it

The de facto genealogy exchange model since 1984 — one of the longest-lived in the catalog.

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Model Details
Steward FamilySearch
Origin United States
Layer Exchange Schema
Domain Genealogy
Status live
Access Openly published
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How I know this

Compiled for the API Evangelist data model catalog, then confirmed against the steward's own site.

Confirmed 2026-08-11

Evidence: name evidence 1/1. Found something wrong? Tell me — corrections are cheap and I would rather be right.

Modernity Profile
50.8 Modernizing
Access Open
Assessed 63.0% of the rubric

A separate measure from the Kin Score, which rates API providers. This rates how current a standard is in how it is expressed, published and paid for — not how good it is. EDIFACT and X12 score low here and move an enormous share of world trade.

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