The Project

The free flow of genealogical data will enable every individual to:

• Discover their family and heritage, preserve their identity, and publish their life story.
• Reduce duplication of sources, relationships, and identities.
• Identify people in photos, in documents, on gravestones, and in other sources of information.
• Keep track of the progress made in family research.
• Distribute and share genealogical information with others.

The GEDCOM X project is FamilySearch's offering to the community of a set of free and open specifications, libraries, and tools defining how genealogical data can be stored, shared, searched, and secured across all phases of the genealogical research process.