[Ldsoss] Geneology questions

[John Finlay]

 * I've never found an ancestor on familysearch.org that precedes AD 1.  Are there any Ancestry File records in BC years?
 
I know that there are people who have submitted such records, but I don't know if it is possible to search for BC dates.

 * How do you record a BC date in a GEDCOM 5.5 file?
 
Here is what the official GEDCOM 5.5.1 spec says.
 
DATE_GREG:= {Size=4:35}
[ <YEAR_GREG>[B.C.] | <MONTH> <YEAR_GREG> | <DAY> <MONTH> <YEAR_GREG> ]
 
So just suffix the date with B.C.

 * How do you record a BC date in a GEDCOM 6 file?
 
I believe it is the same as GEDCOM 5.

 * GEDCOM 6 will be a huge improvement on 5.5, but it's forever to get it released... any ideas when?
 
At this point, I would say GEDCOM 6 will never be adopted.  The Church under the umbrella of FamilySearch has adopted a new XML standard quite different from GEDCOM which allows you to interface with their web service APIs.

 * Any good Gedcom 6 software out there that some of you recommend?
 
You can find lots of XML related software by browsing the GenealogyXML mailing list archives.  I don't think that anything nears the quality of PAF though.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GenealogyXML/
 
--John

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From: ldsoss-bounces at lists.ldsoss.org on behalf of Brandon Stout
Sent: Sat 9/22/2007 9:47 PM
To: LDS Open Source Software
Subject: [Ldsoss] Geneology questions



I have a few questions I hope this group can answer since it seems more
convenient to me than FamilySearch.org support - and beyond the normal
support level they have for some of my questions anyway:

 * I've never found an ancestor on familysearch.org that precedes AD 1. 
Are there any Ancestry File records in BC years?
 * How do you record a BC date in a GEDCOM 5.5 file?
 * How do you record a BC date in a GEDCOM 6 file?
 * GEDCOM 6 will be a huge improvement on 5.5, but it's forever to get
it released... any ideas when?
 * Any good Gedcom 6 software out there that some of you recommend?

Brandon Stout
http://pgv.flfn.org <http://pgv.flfn.org/> 
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