Issues

• TAG_LINK — a standard way to address any field in any GEDCOM record

  FamilySearch/GEDCOM#808 · Filter by author mother10 opened on Oct 11, 2026

• The JOVIAL DEFINE principle: no tag explosion, many problems solved

  FamilySearch/GEDCOM#807 · Filter by author mother10 opened on Oct 6, 2026
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• CITA_STRUCTURE: what I use in my GEDCOM-8 proposal — maybe useful input for the citation project team

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  FamilySearch/GEDCOM#806 · Filter by author mother10 opened on Sep 30, 2026

• Change SOUR the same way as SPLAC — introduce a SOURCES record for the whole work

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  FamilySearch/GEDCOM#805 · Filter by author mother10 opened on Sep 29, 2026
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• Add a generic event role "PRINCIPAL"

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  FamilySearch/GEDCOM#804 · Filter by author webtrees-pesz opened on Sep 24, 2026
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• DATE and TIME fields and ISO 8601

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  FamilySearch/GEDCOM#801 · Filter by author albertemmerich opened on Sep 3, 2026
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• Extension of ASSO tag

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  FamilySearch/GEDCOM#800 · Filter by author webtrees-pesz opened on Aug 25, 2026
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• SSN and other Tax IDs

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  FamilySearch/GEDCOM#785 · Filter by author IohannesIohannium opened on Jul 25, 2026
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• Civil registry and parish records as sources

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  FamilySearch/GEDCOM#784 · Filter by author IohannesIohannium opened on Jul 25, 2026
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• CTRY field and ISO 3166 codes

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  FamilySearch/GEDCOM#783 · Filter by author IohannesIohannium opened on Jul 25, 2026
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• DISPUTE & PROOF announcement

  FamilySearch/GEDCOM#781 · Filter by author mother10 opened on Jul 15, 2026
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• Handling of AFT and BEF in 7.1

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  FamilySearch/GEDCOM#778 · Filter by author dthaler opened on Jul 14, 2026

• FAQs and changelog for future versions of the spec

  FamilySearch/GEDCOM#764 · Filter by author tychonievich opened on Jun 9, 2026

• Tracking subsumes across major version changes

  FamilySearch/GEDCOM#757 · Filter by author tychonievich opened on May 26, 2026
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• Confused by the use of PHRASE in the ADOP tag.

  FamilySearch/GEDCOM#755 · Filter by author Norwegian-Sardines opened on May 14, 2026
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• Shared events

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  FamilySearch/GEDCOM#751 · Filter by author dthaler opened on Apr 21, 2026
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• Distinguish between biological parents and social parents

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  FamilySearch/GEDCOM#726 · Filter by author tychonievich opened on Dec 2, 2025
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• Proposal: Add TRAN to Event_Detail

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  FamilySearch/GEDCOM#718 · Filter by author webtrees-pesz opened on Oct 17, 2025
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• v7.1-generate-files workflow generated incorrect PR

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  FamilySearch/GEDCOM#707 · Filter by author dthaler opened on Sep 9, 2025
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• Proposal: Add FLEX (coming from #680 and is an unseparable part of it.)

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  FamilySearch/GEDCOM#694 · Filter by author mother10 opened on Aug 25, 2025
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• Change NOTE and SNOTE to include a NAME (Note Title)

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  FamilySearch/GEDCOM#693 · Filter by author Norwegian-Sardines opened on Aug 24, 2025
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• Proposal: Add an ADDRPLUS_STRUCTURE

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  FamilySearch/GEDCOM#689 · Filter by author mother10 opened on Aug 22, 2025
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• Proposal: Hexadecimal and HexID, or AlphaNumber and AlphaID

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  FamilySearch/GEDCOM#688 · Filter by author mother10 opened on Aug 22, 2025
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• Proposal: Allow the header to have general Notes.

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  FamilySearch/GEDCOM#687 · Filter by author mother10 opened on Aug 22, 2025
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• Proposal: Change some optional substructures to be required

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  FamilySearch/GEDCOM#686 · Filter by author mother10 opened on Aug 22, 2025
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