GEDCOM

Gedcom is like a special language that helps computers talk to each other about family trees.

You know how you have a family tree with your grandparents, parents, siblings, and cousins all listed? Imagine if you had a computer program that could read that family tree and organize it into a special format called Gedcom.

Gedcom helps computers understand who's who in your family tree, who's related to who, and how they're related. It's like a map that helps the computer see the connections between all the people in your family.

Once your family tree is in Gedcom format, you can share it with other people's computers and they can understand the relationships too. It's like sharing a secret code that helps people understand your family history.

So that's what Gedcom is - it's like a secret code that helps computers understand family trees, and it's used by people who want to share their family history with others.