GENDEX

GENDEX (GENealogical inDEX) is a specification to exprot the index of a genealogical home page to a global name index service.

Format

Each line in a GENDEX file represents the reference to a person record.Each GENDEX record has the following fields, each terminated by a '|' character:

Reference|SURNAME|given name /SURNAME/|date of birth|place of birth|date of death|place of death|
* field 1: file name of web page referring to the individual
* field 2: surname of the individual
* field 3: full name of the individual
* field 4: date of birth or christening (optional)
* field 5: place of birth or christening (optional)
* field 6: date of death or burial (optional)
* field 7: place of death or burial (optional)

The full name field and the date fields have the format as it appears in the GEDCOM NAME and DATE record.

Example

E.g. the URL to a genealogical person record is http://domain.com/index.php?individual=I0001 .The first part including th '=' is the static base URL, which is constant for each person record. The 'I0001' is the variable part, which refers each individual.The GENDEX file could look like this:

I0001|MILLER|Jhon A. /MILLER/|30 JUN 1899|Berlin|20 SEP 1905|Hamburg| I0002|SMITH|Ann /SMITH/||England|||| ...

External links

* [http://www.familytreeseeker.com/faq.php?l=en&p=14 What is a GENDEX file?] FAQ at FamilyTreeSeeker.com

* [http://www.familytreeseeker.com/ FamilyTreeSeeker.com: GENDEX search]
* [http://www.familytreeseeker.com/add.php FamilyTreeSeeker.com: GENDEX file registration]

* [http://tngnetwork.lythgoes.net/ TNG network: GENDEX search]
* [http://tngnetwork.lythgoes.net/newgdxacct.php TNG network: GENDEX file registration]