# Does the Gedcom export save all events?

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**Created:** [August 16, 2023, 12:21pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/does-the-gedcom-export-save-all-events/4023 "2023-08-16T12:21:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![PLegoux](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/plegoux/32/413_2.png) [@PLegoux](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/PLegoux)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2023, 12:21pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/does-the-gedcom-export-save-all-events/4023/1 "2023-08-16T12:21:54Z")

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It doesn’t seem !

I have in my database at least one questionable birth case for which I have two Birth events:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/gramps/original/2X/1/13cedee0fbe2131f95b5bafcd1888b4a727aa94b.png)

However, in the Gedcom extracted from it I find only one:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/gramps/original/2X/a/a86dd93cdb6a6eae09771d4d1940c07d2138f7c9.png)

Neither has a lock preventing them from being exported.  
Is there a sort of “count” of exported event types in the Gramps Gedcom Export? Why aren’t they both there?

Here are the export settings:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/gramps/original/2X/f/f156003523febdb49bc44b9078fa8748bef88e03.png)

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**Author:** ![prculley](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/prculley/32/41_2.png) [@prculley](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/prculley)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2023, 3:32pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/does-the-gedcom-export-save-all-events/4023/2 "2023-08-16T15:32:27Z")

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Gramps treats birth and death events specially. To allow the reports to select a single event date/place, the first event of this type is used as the primary event. For better or worse, the GEDCOM export also only exports a single birth or death event, even when several are present.

I personally think this is a bug, the export should include all the events. I submitted [0012966: GEDCOM export doesn't include all birth or death events. - Gramps - Bugtracker – Free Genealogy Software](https://gramps-project.org/bugs/view.php?id=12966) for a bug report.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/gramps/original/1X/2ac1e712b7adf612e31ca08a55419f4cf37c0158.png) [@system](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2023, 3:33pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/does-the-gedcom-export-save-all-events/4023/3 "2023-09-15T15:33:00Z")

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