UPDATED: 1:46pm Mountain Time.

Today within minutes of Tony Proctor's arrival to Mondays with Myrt, he received notification that GEDCOM 7.0 has been released. See: https://gedcom.io/
GEDCOM is a generic file format that can be employed to export and import genealogy data between genealogy programs and websites. Now we just need genealogy websites and software developers to adopt GEDCOM 7.0.
Louis Kessler and Tony discussed some of the welcome improvements included in this open source software designed to facilitate data communication between various genealogy software programs and websites.
Louis Kessler and Tony discussed some of the welcome improvements included in this open source software designed to facilitate data communication between various genealogy software programs and websites.
A breakthrough in technology for genealogists who wish to share all data, images AND sources. Now the genealogy website and software developers must embrace the new standards. No more lost source citations! :)
UPDATE from RootsMagic's Michael Booth who explains here is our official statement:
"Today, FamilySearch released the official specifications for GEDCOM 7.0, the standard file format for transferring and archiving genealogical data. With many others, we've played a part in guiding the development of GEDCOM 7.0.
Since it was just officially released today, it may take some time to add support for GEDCOM 7.0 to our different products. We have no official timetable for when it will be available or what specific features we plan to add.
You may learn more about GEDCOM 7.0 at https://gedcom.io"
Developers who participated in this GEDCOM version are as follows: (1)
Managing Editors
Gordon Clarke, FamilySearch
Luther Tychonievich, FHISO and University of Virginia
Taskforce
David Pugmire, FamilySearch
Jimmy Zimmerman, FamilySearch
Larry Telford, FamilySearch
Matt Misbach, FamilySearch
Russell Lynch, FamilySearch
Robert Raymond, FamilySearch
Gaylon Findlay, Ancestral Quest
Derek Maude, Ancestry
James Tanner, The Family History Guide
John Cardinal, Family History Hosting
Albert Emmerich, GEDCOM-L
Dave Berdan, Legacy Family Tree
Evgen Zherebniy, Software Mackiev
Jason Fletcher, Midlera Software
Uri Gonen, MyHeritage
Dallan Quass, OurRoots.org
Tony Proctor, Proctor.net
Bill Harten, Puzzilla
Bruce Buzbee and Mike Booth, RootsMagic
Development Teams
Tags team: Luther Tychonievich, Albert Emmerich, Russell Lynch, Tony Proctor, John Cardinal
Extensions team: Luther Tychonievich, Tony Proctor, Jimmy Zimmerman
Notes team: Dallan Quass, David Pugmire, Jason Fletcher, Russell Lynch
External Media team: Dallan Quass, Jason Fletcher, Derek Maude
SOURCE
(1) FamilySearch. "Contributors" The FamilySearch GEDCOM Specification 7.0.0, p89 (https://gedcom.io/specifications/FamilySearchGEDCOMv7.pdf : viewed 7 June 2021.)
Happy family tree climbing!
Myrt :)
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