See here a piece of Gedcom I received by email a file downloaded from Ancestry.com First up is the UTF-8 is not a character set to be used with GEDC 5.5. (It was not invented at that time!). Apparently a ""SUBmitter"" is a requirement. Perhaps for the original intent. 0 HEAD 1 CHAR UTF-8 1 SOUR Ancestry.com Family Trees 2 VERS (2010.3) 2 NAME Ancestry.com Family Trees 2 CORP Ancestry.com 1 GEDC 2 VERS 5.5 2 FORM LINEAGE-LINKED There are only 5100 individuals, but over 9000 Compatibility issues. Note the warnings are because the VALIDATOR is applying very strict, very simple 'original' rules of the 1980's. And the garbage that Family Tree analyser makes of this, its own tree is horrendous. So I would say that BK is pretty good with its Gedcom overall. The secret is in the quality and style of the data that is written in the database. Barry P. Barry PYCROFT www.pycroft.co.nz 8 Orcades Street Shirley Christchurch. 8013 New Zealand Ph: +64-3-942.8417 Mob:- +64 223 140 100 - - - - - - - - - - - - - . -