Difficulty Migrating Witness Data from Heredis to Gramps via GEDCOM

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OS = Windows 10
Gramps AIO64-6.0.3

I’m currently in the process of migrating my genealogical data from Heredis to Gramps, with assistance from ChatGPT to ensure proper format and standards compliance.

As part of this process, I’ve tested both Gramps XML and GEDCOM 5.5. In particular, I used the ASSO tag to represent witnesses (e.g., godparents) in individual events such as births — a structure that is compliant with the GEDCOM 5.5 specification.

However, during import into Gramps (tested on version 6.0.3), these ASSO tags are reported as “recognized but not supported”, and the subordinate lines (TYPE, RELA, ROLE, NOTE, etc.) are ignored. This means witness information is lost, even though it is encoded correctly according to the standard.

This limitation makes it difficult to migrate data from Heredis to Gramps without loss of important relational context.

Is there any roadmap for improving GEDCOM import support for ASSO tags in individual events? Or perhaps a recommended workaround that preserves this kind of witness data?

Thank you for any insights.

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Using ASSO tags in events was only introduced in Gedcom 7.0.

@DavidMStraub is working on a new Gedcom 7 import addon.

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Thank you,
Conclusion: Don’t trust ChatGPT :grinning_face:
Have a great day !
Bertrand

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I don’t know if it can help you but I’d done a Twitter/X thread some years ago on Heredis to Gramps migration:

https://x.com/plegoux/status/1588914821667639298?t=mDPlFR79GC6urDleUEOqkw&s=19

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Bonjour,
Merci, je n’ai pas de compte X, mais je vais essayer de me débrouiller
Merci encore
Bertrand

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