All though the GED com was started by the LDS program (Personal Austral File) It is now on several other Family History programs. It will make it possible for someone to send information to another person who has the GED com on their computer program. It will also let you down load from the LDS records at their family history centers. The main purpose was to make it possible to exchange information without having to copy it off a computer and then to have to retype it into another.