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The GEDCOM Cookbook

The rest of this manual is about using the app. The cookbook flips that around: here GEDCOM is the subject, and the app is just the tool that helps you write it well.

Each recipe answers a real genealogical question — “how do I record an adoption?”, “how do I cite a source?” — and follows the same shape:

GoalThe structure (the actual GEDCOM, with an example) → In the app (how to build it) → Across versions (5.5 / 5.5.1 / 7.0 differences) → Validation notesSee also.

New to GEDCOM itself? Start with the grammar crash course.

Recipes are grouped by intent: