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GEDCOM, an acronym for GEnealogical Data COMmunication, is a specification for exchanging genealogical data between different genealogy software. GEDCOM was developed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as an aid in their extensive genealogical research. A GEDCOM file is plain text (an obscure text encoding named ANSEL, though often in ASCII in the United States) containing genealogical information about individuals, and data linking these records together. Most genealogy software supports importing from and/or exporting to GEDCOM format. The [https://www.ngsgenealogy.org/ngsgentech/projects/TestBook2001/index.cfm GEDCOM TestBook Project] evaluates how well [https://www.ngsgenealogy.org/ngsgentech/projects/TestBook2001/sumchart.cfm popular genealogy programs] conform to the GEDCOM 5.5 standard. Additionally, many tools exist to convert GEDCOM files to HTML pages.