12/1/2001
By Allison Stacy
GEDitCOM sets out to rock the Mac genealogy world with a revolutionary approach that eats, sleeps and breathes GEDCOMs.
Imagine sharing your genealogy software files without any conversion snafus — no flubbed notes or missing sources. Wishful thinking? Not if you're a Mac user.
GEDitCOM shareware <www.geditcom.com> may be your answer. While most family tree programs store data in their own file formats, GEDitCOM fully embraces GEDCOM, the universal file format for family trees. All the files you create and edit are GEDCOMs, so you avoid the pitfalls of importing and exporting different database formats — including lost data.
But that's not the only feature that makes GEDitCOM unique. The most recent version, 3.0, is “carbonized” to run on the new Mac OS X operating system.