Family Search have a new open source GEDCOM standard in development by the name of GEDCOM X: http://www.gedcomx.org <http://www.gedcomx.org/> The developer Ryan Heaton gave two presentations at the Rootstech conference. The Ancestry Insider has summarised the first of the two talks here: http://ancestryinsider.blogspot.com/2012/02/ryan-heaton-new-gedcom.html The keynote Rootstech talks are now archived on the Rootstech website but I don't think Ryan Heaton's talks were included in the live stream: http://rootstech.org/ If anyone is interested in further details then summaries of all the talks (known as "syllabi") can be downloaded from the downloads section on the Rootstech website. Tamura Jones has also covered GEDCOM X on his website: http://www.tamurajones.net/GEDCOMX.xhtml It looks like GEDCOM X still has some way to go but it will be interesting to see how this impacts on the future development of Family Historian. I would hope we will all benefit in the long term. Debbie Kennett