Renumber Records

Within the GEDCOM specification, there may be considerable variation between files in the way that records are numbered and ordered. Most commonly, the records are sorted, so that for instance all records of individuals appear before any family records. Most commonly, also, records of each type are numbered separately, and consecutively, beginning at 1, and distinguished by prefixes such as 'I' for individual and 'F' for family. However, at least one program begins numbering at 0, whilst another numbers and orders all records in a single sequence, irrespective of type. Other programs do not number records, but instead use alphabetic identifiers.

When a file is opened and edited in GWintree, only minimal changes are normally made to the file, and its original format is preserved. The file can be normalised to the most common format by selecting Renumber Records. When a file is opened that uses non-numeric identifiers, this routine will be run automatically.