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Are there legal GEDCOM 5.5 constructions that are not understood by FO?

April 26, 2017Constructions FO gedcom Legal understood

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Are there legal GEDCOM 5.5 constructions that are not understood by FO?

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Yes, lots of them. It would be surprising to find a program that actually understood both the syntax and grammar of all the 5.5 constructions. Some programs map data that they don’t understand into a generic note. FO discards this data and reports this in the list file.