Release 5.5

Prepared by the
Family History Department
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
2 January 1996

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Accompanying letter
• Introduction
  • Purpose and Content of The GEDCOM Standard
  • Purposes for Version 5.x
  • Modifications in Version 5.5 as a result of the 5.4 (draft) review
  • Changes Introduced or Modified in Draft Version 5.4
  • Changes Introduced in Draft Version 5.3
• Chapter 1 - Data Representation Grammer
  • Concepts
  • Grammar
  • Description of Grammar Components
• Chapter 2 - Lineage-Linked Grammer
  • Record Structures of the Lineage-Linked Form
  • Substructures of the Lineage-Linked Form
  • Primitive Elements of the Lineage-Linked Form
  • Compatibility with Other GEDCOM Versions
  • Packaging the GEDCOM Transmission File
  • Sample Lineage-Linked GEDCOM Transmission
• Chapter 3 - Using Character Sets in GEDCOM
  • 8-Bit ANSEL
  • ASCII (USA Version)
  • UNICODE (ISO 10646)
• Chapter 4 - Product Registration
  GEDCOM Product Registration
• Appendix A - Lineage-Linked GEDCOM Tag Definition
• Appendix B - Structure and Primitive Cross-Reference
  • Structure Cross-Reference
  • Primitive Cross-Reference
• Appendix C - LDS Temple Codes
• Appendix D - ANSEL Character Set
  • Non-spacing graphic characters
  • Spacing graphic characters
• Appendix E - Encoding and Decoding Algorithms for Multimedia Objects
  • Introduction
  • Encoding
  • Decoding

Disclaimer: This HTML version of the GEDCOM 5.5 specification should be equivalent to the LDS wordperfect original. In the conversion process I have tried not to break anything however, the LDS original should always be considered the definitive version.
Clive Stubbings, October 2000