A GEDCOM [Genealogical Data Communication] file is plain text (usually either UTF-8 or ASCII) containing genealogical information about individuals, and meta data linking these records together.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEDCOM
The GEDCOM – you love it, you hate it, but as a genealogy software program, you have to deal with it.
We talk about why, and show how 6 of the best tree builder programs handle importing data from ancestry.com
- Legacy Family Tree 9
- Family Tree Maker 2019
- Heredis 2020
- Family Historian 6
- Ancestral Quest 16
- RootsMagic 7