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GEDCOM…Why do I still have to care?

April 1, 2016 by The Riddler

Why should I care about GEDCOM?

What is GEDCOM? The long and short of it is…a standard to transfer data between genealogy programs. Sure, some genealogy software packages have added support for importing directly from another program’s files. But not all. And not always as successfully as one might like. 

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