Family Historian User Group

People have suggested breaking out of GEDCOM 5.5. The problem is that this breaks the whole point of standardisation on a standard. However, if the extensions were held as XML in Note records, then anyone passing the GEDCOM to someone else would still be passing a valid GEDCOM, while FH could suppress display of the XML notes in favour of a dedicated form. Thus we could get proper histories of events for places, even record hierarchies of places - and addresses. Ditto other required entities like organisations.
A relation from a person to an organisation (etc) could be recorded as a link to an XML note.

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Though some people have adopted bits of 5.5.1 and a suggested GEDCOM 6 (XML) has been around for a while though no pacakge appears to support it. I suspect that 5.5 will wither on the vine if we aren't carteful, some of the other packages I have played with demos of have basic GEDCOM import (that fails to import all of an FH file) and a plethora of format specific filters.

Maybe of the suppliers met up they could move forward to a 'GEDXML' before it is too late!