In <mailman.7.1362081502.4183.gencmp@rootsweb.com>, on 02/28/2013 at 02:58 PM, singhals <singhals@erols.com> said: >Well, y'see, many of us half-a-cup types suffered through the years >long process that ended up as GED5.5 It was intended to be a >universal standard. But, turns out, FO users wanted FO to set the >standard, FTM users wanted FTM's standards, UFT users wanted ... PAF >users wanted ... ROOTS users wanted ... TFE users wanted ... I can't speak for others, but I would cheerfully abandon the format that I'm currently using if I could export my data into a universal format, be it GEDCOM-X or something totally different. As long as it has the functionality of GEDCOM 5.5.1 I don't really care about the syntactic sugar; interoperability is more important. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> Unsolicited bulk E-mail subject to legal action. I reserve the right to publicly post or ridicule any abusive E-mail. Reply to domain Patriot dot net user shmuel+news to contact me. Do not reply to spamtrap@library.lspace.org