General Custom Filelinks

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Comments on "General Custom Filelinks" INDIVIDUAL Record.

File links in GEDCOM are created by having an OBJE structure with the path name to the file in a subordinate FILE tag and the format of the file in a subordinate FORM tag. It does not make sense to limit file links to the small set of multimedia file types mentioned in the GEDCOM standard (see INDIVIDUAL record "Standard GEDCOM Filelinks" for those file types). The INDIVIDUAL record "Nonstandard Multimedia Filelinks" has sample links to other types of multimedia files not included in the standard GEDCOM list. This INDIVIDUAL record has links to some non-multimedia files types.

What will a genealogy program do when it encounters such logical extensions to GEDCOM file links? Good programs will follow the links. Weaker programs will simply delete them from your file (it is bad manners to delete someone's data).