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ABBR |
{ABBREVIATION} A short name of a
title, description, or name. |
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ADDR |
{ADDRESS} The
contemporary place, usually
required for postal purposes, of
an individual, a submitter of
information, a repository, a
business, a school, or a
company. |
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ADR1 |
{ADDRESS1}
The first line of an address. |
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ADR2 |
{ADDRESS2}
The second line of an address. |
Class
Legal |
ADOP |
{ADOPTION}
Pertaining to creation of a
child-parent relationship that
does not exist biologically. |
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AFN |
{AFN} A
unique permanent record file
number of an individual record
stored in Ancestral File. |
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AGE |
{AGE} The age
of the individual at the time an
event occurred, or the age
listed in the document. |
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AGNC |
{AGENCY} The
institution or individual having
authority and/or responsibility
to manage or govern.
|
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ALIA |
{ALIAS} An
indicator to link different
record descriptions of a person
who may be the same person.
|
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ANCE |
{ANCESTORS}
Pertaining to forbearers of an
individual.
|
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ANCI |
{ANCES_INTEREST} Indicates an
interest in additional research
for ancestors of this
individual. (See also DESI)
|
Class
marital |
ANUL |
{ANNULMENT}
Declaring a marriage void from
the beginning (never existed). |
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ASSO |
{ASSOCIATES}
An indicator to link friends,
neighbors, relatives, or
associates of an individual.
|
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AUTH |
{AUTHOR} The
name of the individual who
created or compiled information.
|
Class
Religious |
BAPL |
{BAPTISM-LDS}
The event of baptism performed
at age eight or later by
priesthood authority of the LDS
Church. (See also BAPM, next)
|
Class
Religious |
BAPM |
{BAPTISM} The
event of baptism (not LDS),
performed in infancy or later.
(See also BAPL, above, and CHR,
page 73.) |
Class
Religious |
BARM |
{BAR_MITZVAH}
The ceremonial event held when a
Jewish boy reaches age 13. |
Class
Religious |
BASM |
{BAS_MITZVAH}
The ceremonial event held when a
Jewish girl reaches age 13, also
known as "Bat Mitzvah." |
Class
Birth |
BIRT |
{BIRTH} The
event of entering into life.
|
Class
Religious |
BLES |
{BLESSING} A
religious event of bestowing
divine care or intercession.
Sometimes given in connection
with a naming ceremony. |
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BLOB |
{BINARY_OBJECT} A grouping of
data used as input to a
multimedia system that processes
binary data to represent images,
sound, and video. |
Class
Death |
BURI |
{BURIAL} The
event of the proper disposing of
the mortal remains of a deceased
person.
|
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CALN |
{CALL_NUMBER}
The number used by a repository
to identify the specific items
in its collections. |
Class
Culture |
CAST |
{CASTE} The
name of an individual's rank or
status in society, based on
racial or religious differences,
or differences in wealth,
inherited rank, profession,
occupation, etc. |
Class
Death |
CAUS |
{CAUSE} A description of the
cause of the associated event or
fact, such as the cause of
death. |
Class
Census |
CENS |
{CENSUS} The
event of the periodic count of
the population for a designated
locality, such as a national or
state Census. |
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CHAN |
{CHANGE}
Indicates a change, correction,
or modification. Typically used
in connection with a DATE to
specify when a change in
information occurred. |
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CHAR |
{CHARACTER}
An indicator of the character
set used in writing this
automated information. |
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CHIL |
{CHILD} The
natural, adopted, or sealed
(LDS) child of a father and a
mother.
|
Class
Religious |
CHR |
{CHRISTENING}
The religious event (not LDS) of
baptizing and/or naming a child.
|
Class
Religious |
CHRA |
{ADULT_CHRISTENING} The
religious event (not LDS) of
baptizing and/or naming an adult
person.
|
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CITY |
{CITY} A
lower level jurisdictional unit.
Normally an incorporated
municipal unit. |
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CONC |
{CONCATENATION} An indicator
that additional data belongs to
the superior value. The
information from the CONC value
is to be connected to the value
of the superior preceding line
without a space and without a
carriage return and/or new line
character. Values that are split
for a CONC tag must always be
split at a non-space. If the
value is split on a space the
space will be lost when
concatenation takes place. This
is because of the treatment that
spaces get as a GEDCOM
delimiter, many GEDCOM values
are trimmed of trailing spaces
and some systems look for the
first non-space starting after
the tag to determine the
beginning of the value.
|
Class
Religious |
CONF |
{CONFIRMATION} The religious
event (not LDS) of conferring
the gift of the Holy Ghost and,
among protestants, full church
membership. |
Class
Religious |
CONL |
{CONFIRMATION_L} The religious
event by which a person receives
membership in the LDS Church.
|
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CONT |
{CONTINUED}
An indicator that additional
data belongs to the superior
value. The information from the
CONT value is to be connected to
the value of the superior
preceding line with a carriage
return and/or new line
character. Leading spaces could
be important to the formatting
of the resultant text. When
importing values from CONT lines
the reader should assume only
one delimiter character
following the CONT tag. Assume
that the rest of the leading
spaces are to be a part of the
value. |
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COPR |
{COPYRIGHT} A
statement that accompanies data
to protect it from unlawful
duplication and distribution. |
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CORP |
{CORPORATE} A name of an
institution, agency,
corporation, or company.
|
Class
Death |
CREM |
{CREMATION}
Disposal of the remains of a
person's body by fire. |
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CTRY |
{COUNTRY} The name or code of
the country. |
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DATA |
{DATA}
Pertaining to stored automated
information. |
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DATE |
{DATE} The
time of an event in a calendar
format. |
Class
Death |
DEAT |
{DEATH} The
event when mortal life
terminates. |
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DESC |
{DESCENDANTS}
Pertaining to offspring of an
individual. |
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DESI |
{DESCENDANT_INT} Indicates an
interest in research to identify
additional descendants of this
individual. (See also ANCI) |
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DEST |
{DESTINATION}
A system receiving data. |
Class
marital |
DIV |
{DIVORCE} An
event of dissolving a marriage
through civil action. |
Class
marital |
DIVF |
{DIVORCE_FILED} An event of
filing for a divorce by a
spouse. |
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DSCR |
{PHY_DESCRIPTION} The physical
characteristics of a person,
place, or thing. |
Class
Education |
EDUC |
{EDUCATION}
Indicator of a level of
education attained. |
Class
Move |
EMIG |
{EMIGRATION}
An event of leaving one's
homeland with the intent of
residing elsewhere. |
Class
Religious |
ENDL |
{ENDOWMENT} A
religious event where an
endowment ordinance for an
individual was performed by
priesthood authority in an LDS
temple. |
Class
marital |
ENGA |
{ENGAGEMENT}
An event of recording or
announcing an agreement between
two people to become married. |
| EID |
EVEN |
{EVENT} A
noteworthy happening related to
an individual, a group, or an
organization. |
| FID |
FAM |
{FAMILY}
Identifies a legal, common law,
or other customary relationship
of man and woman and their
children, if any, or a family
created by virtue of the birth
of a child to its biological
father and mother. |
| cid |
FAMC |
{FAMILY_CHILD} Identifies the
family in which an individual
appears as a child. |
| x no need |
FAMF |
{FAMILY_FILE}
Pertaining to, or the name of, a
family file. Names stored in a
file that are assigned to a
family for doing temple
ordinance work. |
| X no need |
FAMS |
{FAMILY_SPOUSE} Identifies the
family in which an individual
appears as a spouse. |
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FCOM |
{FIRST_COMMUNION} A religious
rite, the first act of sharing
in the Lord's supper as part of
church worship. |
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FILE |
{FILE} An
information storage place that
is ordered and arranged for
preservation and reference. |
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FORM |
{FORMAT} An
assigned name given to a
consistent format in which
information can be conveyed. |
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GEDC |
{GEDCOM}
Information about the use of
GEDCOM in a transmission. |
| pgn |
GIVN |
{GIVEN_NAME}
A given or earned name used for
official identification of a
person. |
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GRAD |
{GRADUATION}
An event of awarding educational
diplomas or degrees to
individuals. |
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HEAD |
{HEADER}
Identifies information
pertaining to an entire GEDCOM
transmission. |
| hid |
HUSB |
{HUSBAND} An
individual in the family role of
a married man or father. |
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IDNO |
{IDENT_NUMBER} A number assigned
to identify a person within some
significant external system. |
Class
Move |
IMMI |
{IMMIGRATION}
An event of entering into a new
locality with the intent of
residing there. |
| PID |
INDI |
{INDIVIDUAL}
A person. |
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INFL |
{TempleReady}
Indicates if an INFANT - data is
"Y" (or "N"??) |
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LANG |
{LANGUAGE}
The name of the language used in
a communication or transmission
of information. |
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LEGA |
{LEGATEE} A
role of an individual acting as
a person receiving a bequest or
legal devise. |
Class
marital |
MARB |
{MARRIAGE_BANN} An event of an
official public notice given
that two people intend to marry. |
Class
marital |
MARC |
{MARR_CONTRACT} An event of
recording a formal agreement of
marriage, including the
prenuptial agreement in which
marriage partners reach
agreement about the property
rights of one or both, securing
property to their children. |
Class
marital |
MARL |
{MARR_LICENSE} An event of
obtaining a legal license to
marry. |
Class
marital |
MARR |
{MARRIAGE} A
legal, common-law, or customary
event of creating a family unit
of a man and a woman as husband
and wife. |
Class
marital |
MARS |
{MARR_SETTLEMENT} An event of
creating an agreement between
two people contemplating
marriage, at which time they
agree to release or modify
property rights that would
otherwise arise from the
marriage. |
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MEDI |
{MEDIA}
Identifies information about the
media or having to do with the
medium in which information is
stored. |
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NAME |
{NAME} A word
or combination of words used to
help identify an individual,
title, or other item. More than
one NAME line should be used for
people who were known by
multiple names.
|
Class
Government |
NATI |
{NATIONALITY}
The national heritage of an
individual. |
Class
Government |
NATU |
{NATURALIZATION} The event of
obtaining citizenship. |
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NCHI |
{CHILDREN_COUNT} The number of
children that this person is
known to be the parent of (all
marriages) when subordinate to
an individual, or that belong to
this family when subordinate to
a FAM_RECORD. |
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NICK |
{NICKNAME} A
descriptive or familiar that is
used instead of, or in addition
to, one's proper name. |
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NMR |
{MARRIAGE_COUNT} The number of
times this person has
participated in a family as a
spouse or parent. |
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NOTE |
{NOTE}
Additional information provided
by the submitter for
understanding the enclosing
data. |
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NPFX |
{NAME_PREFIX}
Text which appears on a name
line before the given and
surname parts of a name. i.e.
(Lt. Cmndr.) Joseph /Allen/ jr. |
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NSFX |
{NAME_SUFFIX}
Text which appears on a name
line after or behind the given
and surname parts of a name.
i.e. Lt. Cmndr. Joseph /Allen/ (jr.)
In this example jr. is
considered as the name suffix
portion. |
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OBJE |
{OBJECT}
Pertaining to a grouping of
attributes used in describing
something. Usually referring to
the data required to represent a
multimedia object, such an audio
recording, a photograph of a
person, or an image of a
document. |
Class
Employment |
OCCU |
{OCCUPATION}
The type of work or profession
of an individual. |
Class
Religious |
ORDI |
{ORDINANCE}
Pertaining to a religious
ordinance in general. |
Class
Religious |
ORDN |
{ORDINATION}
A religious event of receiving
authority to act in religious
matters. |
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PAGE |
{PAGE} A
number or description to
identify where information can
be found in a referenced work.
|
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PEDI |
{PEDIGREE}
Information pertaining to an
individual to parent lineage
chart. |
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PHON |
{PHONE} A
unique number assigned to access
a specific telephone. |
| LID |
PLAC |
{PLACE} A
jurisdictional name to identify
the place or location of an
event. |
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POST |
{POSTAL_CODE}
A code used by a postal service
to identify an area to
facilitate mail handling.
|
Class
Legal |
PROB |
{PROBATE} An
event of judicial determination
of the validity of a will. May
indicate several related court
activities over several dates. |
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PROP |
{PROPERTY}
Pertaining to possessions such
as real estate or other property
of interest. |
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PUBL |
{PUBLICATION}
Refers to when and/or were a
work was published or created. |
| tagA |
QUAY |
{QUALITY_OF_DATA}
An assessment of the certainty
of the evidence to support the
conclusion drawn from evidence.
Values: [0|1|2|3] |
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REFN |
{REFERENCE}
A description or number used to
identify an item for filing,
storage, or other reference
purposes. |
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RELA |
{RELATIONSHIP} A relationship
value between the indicated
contexts. |
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RELI |
{RELIGION} A
religious denomination to which
a person is affiliated or for
which a record applies. |
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REPO |
{REPOSITORY}
An institution or person that
has the specified item as part
of their collection(s). |
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RESI |
{RESIDENCE}
The act of dwelling at an
address for a period of time. |
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RESN |
{RESTRICTION}
A processing indicator
signifying access to information
has been denied or otherwise
restricted. |
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RETI |
{RETIREMENT}
An event of exiting an
occupational relationship with
an employer after a qualifying
time period. |
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RFN |
{REC_FILE_NUMBER} A permanent
number assigned to a record that
uniquely identifies it within a
known file. |
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RIN |
{REC_ID_NUMBER} A number
assigned to a record by an
originating automated system
that can be used by a receiving
system to report results
pertaining to that record.
|
| rol |
ROLE |
{ROLE} A name
given to a role played by an
individual in connection with an
event. |
| psx |
SEX |
{SEX}
Indicates the sex of an
individual--male or female. |
Class
Religious |
SLGC |
{SEALING_CHILD} A religious
event pertaining to the sealing
of a child to his or her parents
in an LDS temple ceremony. |
Class
Religious |
SLGS |
{SEALING_SPOUSE} A religious
event pertaining to the sealing
of a husband and wife in an LDS
temple ceremony.
|
| SID |
SOUR |
{SOURCE} The
initial or original material
from which information was
obtained. |
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SPFX |
{SURN_PREFIX}
A name piece used as a
non-indexing pre-part of a
surname. |
Class
Government |
SSN |
{SOC_SEC_NUMBER} A number
assigned by the United States
Social Security Administration.
Used for tax identification
purposes. |
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STAE |
{STATE} A
geographical division of a
larger jurisdictional area, such
as a State within the United
States of America. |
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STAT |
{STATUS} An
assessment of the state or
condition of something. |
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SUBM |
{SUBMITTER}
An individual or organization
who contributes genealogical
data to a file or transfers it
to someone else. |
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SUBN |
{SUBMISSION}
Pertains to a collection of data
issued for processing. |
| psn |
SURN |
{SURNAME} A
family name passed on or used by
members of a family. |
Class
Religious |
TEMP |
{TEMPLE} The
name or code that represents the
name OF a temple of the LDS
Church. |
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TEXT |
{TEXT} The
exact wording found in an
original source document. |
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TIME |
{TIME} A time
value in a 24-hour clock format,
including hours, minutes, and
optional seconds, separated by a
colon (:). Fractions of seconds
are shown in decimal notation. |
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TITL |
{TITLE} A
description of a specific
writing or other work, such as
the title of a book when used in
a source context, or a formal
designation used by an
individual in connection with
positions of royalty or other
social status, such as Grand
Duke. |
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TRLR |
{TRAILER} At
level 0, specifies the end of a
GEDCOM transmission.
|
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TYPE |
{TYPE} A
further qualification to the
meaning of the associated
superior tag. The value does not
have any computer processing
reliability. It is more in the
form of a short one or two word
note that should be displayed
any time the associated data is
displayed. |
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VERS |
{VERSION}
Indicates which version of a
product, item, or publication is
being used or referenced. |
| wid |
WIFE |
{WIFE} An
individual in the role as a
mother and/or married woman. |
Class
Legal
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WILL |
{WILL} A
legal document treated as an
event, by which a person
disposes of his or her estate,
to take effect after death. The
event date is the date the will
was signed while the person was
alive. (See also PROBate) |
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