From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1ebbccbc114d641e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-24 10:25:17 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!130.133.1.3!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!h133n2fls20o974.telia.COM!not-for-mail From: "Bror Johansson" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: SV: Remarriages, how common is it? [off-topic] Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 11:59:57 +0100 Message-ID: <9r6thm$r1qm2$1@ID-59332.news.dfncis.de> References: <3BD498DF.27E8B66C@otelco.net> <9r32tg$kkl$1@newstoo.ericsson.se> <3BD590E9.DF0A8D31@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: h133n2fls20o974.telia.com (212.181.170.133) X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1003944316 28371650 212.181.170.133 (16 [59332]) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15140 Date: 2001-10-24T11:59:57+01:00 List-Id: Wes Groleau skrev i diskussionsgruppsmeddelandet:3BD590E9.DF0A8D31@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com. .. > > > Petter Fryklund wrote: > > are already there, but I'm curious since my grandmother and grandfather on > > my mothers side where married twice with several years passing (I don't > > > > > For marriages, some people marry each other multiple > > In my mind the biggest flaw in GEDCOM is the assumption > that every person is a child of exactly one family and > husband or wife of zero to many. > > I'd love to see something simlar to GEDCOM except that > people are related to other people directly instead of > indirectly by family group. > > Family could still be there as one case of a group > record which has members with roles and time spans. > As far as I have been informed about the forthcoming GEDCOM/XML (from The Family and Church History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) it will be capable of handling most - if not all - (well-)known defiencies of present-day GEDCOM. /BJ