openGEDCOM

An open continuation of the antiquated and abandoned GEDCOM standard. GEDCOM is alive!

View the Project on GitHub DecentralizedGenealogy/openGEDCOM

Sources

Sources contain an array of source information that provides evidence of the genealogical conclusions you make about the people in your openGEDCOM file. Source records are used to provide a bibliographic description of the source cited.

Photo

Photos and other digital media can contain relative filesystem links or web URIs.

"sources":[
    {
        "id": "SR001",
        "type": "photo",
        "title": "Robert Kunzle Graduation Photo",
        "author": "…",
        "date": "",
        "URI": "http://flikr.com/photo1.jpg",
        "note": "…"
    }
]

DNA

"sources":[
    {
        "id": "SR005",
        "type": "dna",
        "dnaType": "autosomal",
        "haplo": "B5a1a",
        "testingCompany": "23andme",
        "date": "",
        "URI": "http://23andme.com/dna.csv",
        "note": "…"
    }
]

Vital Record

"sources":[
    {
        "id": "SR002",
        "type": "vital records",
        "repository": {
            "link": {
                "target": "RepositoryRec",
                "ref": "RP001"
            },
            "callNbr": "4568-09"
        },
        "title": "Marriage Registry",
        "article": "…",
        "author": "California State Board of Health",
        "URI": "…",
        "publishing": "…",
        "note": "…",
        "changed": "…"
    }
]

Book

"sources":[
   {
        "id": "SR003",
        "type": "book",
        "title": "Prominent Families of Early Boston",
        "URI": "https://books.google.com/book.pdf"
        "publishing": "Lynn, Mass.: The Stuart Little Co., 1936"
    }
]

Video Tape

"sources":[
    {
        "id": "SR004",
        "type": "video tape",
        "lang": "de",
        "title": "Kunzle Family Reunion",
        "author": "…",
        "URI": "http://www.kunzlefam.org/famreun.mov",
        "publishing": "…",
        "note": "…",
        "changed": "…"
    }
]