GEDCOM Version Release Date Notes 1.0[22] 1984[23] - 2.0[22] Dec 1985[24] PAF 2.0 2.1 Feb 1987[24] GEDCOM for PAF 2.1 2.3 Draft 7 August 1985[25] with PAF2.0 GEDCOM implementation conventions 2.4 Draft 13 December 1985[25] with PAF2.0 GEDCOM implementation conventions 3.0 Standard[22] 9 October 1987[26] PAF 2.0 and 2.1 implementation of 3.0 4.0 Standard August 1989 PAF 2.1 - 2.31 4.1 Draft[27] - - 4.2 Draft[28] 25 January 1990[29] - 5.0 Draft[22] 31 December 1991[25] lineage-linked structures were introduced.[30] 5.1 Draft 18 September 1992[24] - 5.2 Draft 22 January 1992[31] - 5.3 Draft 4 November 1993[32] Unicode standard (ISO/IEC 10646) was introduced as an additional character set.