I just want to chime in here and encourage everyone to support the Better GEDcom project, sponsored by FHISO: http://fhiso.org/ . Here is the press release I received 16 Aug.: Thank you for your interest in the Family History Information Standards Organisation (FHISO, http://fhiso.org/) and your patience as we have slowly prepared to begin our technical work. The Technical Standing Committee is pleased to announce that we are now ready to begin that technical process! We invite you to participate in any or all of the following ways: 1. Subscribe to the low-volume tsc-announce mailing list. That's where we'll send notices of new technical projects and other important announcements and updates. Visit http://fhiso.org/mailman/listinfo/tsc-announce_fhiso.org to subscribe. 2. Participate in open discussions on the tsc-public mailing list; visit http://fhiso.org/mailman/listinfo/tsc-public_fhiso.org to subscribe. 3. Join an exploratory group, or propose your own; see http://fhiso.org/tsc-egs/ for more. 4. The Call for Papers is still active; see http://fhiso.org/call-for-papers/ for more. You can also learn more about the technical work of FHISO through the Technical Standing Committee's web portalhttp://fhiso.org/tsc/ --Dr. Luther A. Tychonievich, TSC Chair -- Barbara Zanzig Kirkland, WA Zanzig one name study: http://www.zanziggenealogy.info/ZanzigStudy/index.htm