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header:
    title: Gedcom Tags reference

    description: >
        HTML reference list of GEDCOM tags, copied from ged551-5.pdf
    infosource: |
      title: HTML reference list of GEDCOM tags, adapted from ged551-5.pdf,
      resource: ged551-5.pdf, p 83 - Appendix A : Lineage-Linked GEDCOM Tag Definition
      comment: |
        ged551-5.pdf starts with :
        THE GEDCOM STANDARD
        DRAFT Release 5.5.1
        Prepared by the
        Family History Department
        The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
        2 October 1999

# 2 level group hierarchy of tags
groups:
  reference-frame:
    - time
    - geo
  entities:
    - name
    - person
    - link
    - event
    - carac-event
    - family
    - fact
    - couple-relation
  religion:
    - religious
    - jewish
    - christian
    - lds
  meta:
    - id
    - infosource
    - gedcom
    - carac
    - legal


tags: 
    ABBR:
      fullword: ABBREVIATION
      description: >
        A short name of a title, desc, or name.
      groups: [person]
      concerns: property
    ADDR:
      fullword: ADDRESS
      description: >
        The contemporary place, usually required for postal purposes, of an individual, a submitter of
        information, a repository, a business, a school, or a company.
      groups: [person]
      concerns: entity
    ADR1:
      fullword: ADDRESS1
      description: >
        The first line of an address.
      groups: [person]
      concerns: entity
    ADR2:
      fullword: ADDRESS2
      description: >
        The second line of an address.
      groups: [person]
      concerns: entity
    ADOP:
      fullword: ADOPTION
      description: >
        Pertaining to creation of a legally approved child-parent relationship that does not exist biologically.
      groups: [event]
      concerns: link
    AFN:
      fullword: AFN
      description: >
        A unique permanent record file number of an individual record stored in Ancestral File.
      groups: [infosource, id]
      concerns: person
    AGE:
      fullword: AGE
      description: >
        The age of the individual at the time an event occurred, or the age listed in the document.
      groups: [person]
      concerns: person
    AGNC:
      fullword: AGENCY
      description: >
        The institution or individual having authority and/or responsibility to manage or govern.
      groups: [entity]
    ALIA:
      fullword: ALIAS
      description: >
        An indicator to link different record descs of a person who may be the same person.
      groups: [link]
      concerns: person
    ANCE:
      fullword: ANCESTORS
      description: >
        Pertaining to forbearers of an individual.
      groups: [link]
      concerns: person
    ANCI:
      fullword: ANCES_INTEREST
      description: >
        Indicates an interest in additional research for ancestors of this individual. (See also DESI, page 86.)
      groups: [infosource]
      concerns: person, infosource
    ANUL:
      fullword: ANNULMENT
      description: >
        Declaring a marriage void from the beginning (never existed).
      groups: [couple-relation]
    ASSO:
      fullword: ASSOCIATES
      description: >
        An indicator to link friends, neighbors, relatives, or associates of an individual.
      groups: [link]
      concerns: person
    AUTH:
      fullword: AUTHOR
      description: >
        The name of the individual who created or compiled information.
      groups: [infosource]
      concerns: person
    BAPL:
      fullword: BAPTISM-LDS
      description: >
        The event of baptism performed at age eight or later by priesthood authority of the LDS Church. (See also BAPM, next)
      groups: [lds]
      concerns: person
    BAPM:
      fullword: BAPTISM
      description: >
        The event of baptism (not LDS), performed in infancy or later. (See also BAPL, above, and CHR, page 85:.)
      groups: [christian]
      concerns: person
    BARM:
      fullword: BAR_MITZVAH
      description: >
        The ceremonial event held when a Jewish boy reaches age 13.
      groups: [jewish]
      concerns: person
    BASM:
      fullword: BAS_MITZVAH
      description: >
        The ceremonial event held when a Jewish girl reaches age 13, also known as "Bat Mitzvah."
      groups: [jewish]
      concerns: person
    BIRT:
      fullword: BIRTH
      description: >
        The event of entering into life.
      groups: [event]
      concerns: person
    BLES:
      fullword: BLESSING
      description: >
        A religious event of bestowing divine care or intercession. Sometimes given in connection with a naming ceremony.
      groups: [religious]
      concerns: person
    BURI:
      fullword: BURIAL
      description: >
        The event of the proper disposing of the mortal remains of a deceased person.
      concerns: person
      context: death
      groups: [event]
    CALN:
      fullword: CALL_NUMBER
      description: >
        The number used by a repository to identify the specific items in its collections.
      groups: [person]
      concerns: person
    CAST:
      fullword: CASTE
      description: >
        The name of an individual's rank or status in society which is sometimes based on racial or religious
        differences, or differences in wealth, inherited rank, profession, occupation, etc.
      groups: [person]
      concerns: person
    CAUS:
      fullword: CAUSE
      description: >
        A desc of the cause of the associated event or fact, such as the cause of death.
      groups: [carac-event]
      concerns: event
    CENS:
      fullword: CENSUS
      description: >
        The event of the periodic count of the population for a designated locality, such as a national or state Census:.
      groups: [infosource]
      concerns: infosource
    CHAN:
      fullword: CHANGE
      description: >
        Indicates a change, correction, or modification. Typically used in connection with a DATE to specify when a change in information occurred.
      groups: [infosource]
      concerns: infosource
    CHAR:
      fullword: CHARACTER
      description: >
        An indicator of the character set used in writing this automated information.
      groups: [infosource]
      concerns: infosource
    CHIL:
      fullword: CHILD
      description: >
        The natural, adopted, or sealed (LDS) child of a father and a mother.
      groups: [entity]
    CHR:
      fullword: CHRISTENING
      description: >
        The religious event (not LDS) of baptizing and/or naming a child.
      groups: [christian]
      concerns: person
    CHRA:
      fullword: ADULT_CHRISTENING
      description: >
        The religious event (not LDS) of baptizing and/or naming an adult person.
      groups: [christian]
      concerns: person
    CITY:
      fullword: CITY
      description: >
        A lower level jurisdictional unit. Normally an incorporated municipal unit.
      groups: [geo]
    CONC:
      fullword: CONCATENATION
      description: >
        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.
      groups: [gedcom]
      concerns: gedcom
      
    CONF:
      fullword: CONFIRMATION
      description: >
        The religious event (not LDS) of conferring the gift of the Holy Ghost and, among protestants, full church membership.
      groups: [christian]
    CONL:
      fullword: CONFIRMATION_LDS
      description: >
        The religious event by which a person receives membership in the LDS Church.
      groups: [lds]
    CONT:
      fullword: CONTINUED
      description: >
        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.
      groups: [gedcom]
      concerns: gedcom
    COPR:
      fullword: COPYRIGHT
      description: >
        A statement that accompanies data to protect it from unlawful duplication and distribution.
      groups: [infosource]
    CORP:
      fullword: CORPORATE
      description: >
        A name of an institution, agency, corporation, or company.
      groups: [entity]
    CREM:
      fullword: CREMATION
      description: >
        Disposal of the remains of a person's body by fire.
      groups: [event]
    CTRY:
      fullword: COUNTRY
      description: >
        The name or code of the country.
      groups: [geo]
    DATA:
      fullword: DATA
      description: >
        Pertaining to stored automated information.
      groups: [infosource]
    DATE:
      fullword: DATE
      description: >
        The time of an event in a calendar format.
      groups: [time]
    DEAT:
      fullword: DEATH
      description: >
        The event when mortal life terminates.
      groups: [event]
    DESC:
      fullword: DESCENDANTS
      description: >
        Pertaining to offspring of an individual.
      groups: [link]
    DESI:
      fullword: DESCENDANT_INT
      description: >
        Indicates an interest in research to identify additional descendants of this individual. (See also ANCI,
      groups: [infosource]
    DEST:
      fullword: DESTINATION
      description: >
        A system receiving data.
      groups: [infosource]
    DIV:
      fullword: DIVORCE
      description: >
        An event of dissolving a marriage through civil action.
      groups: [couple-relation]
    DIVF:
      fullword: DIVORCE_FILED
      description: >
        An event of filing for a divorce by a spouse.
      groups: [couple-relation]
    DSCR:
      fullword: PHY_DESC
      description: >
        The physical characteristics of a person, place, or thing.
      groups: [person]
    EDUC:
      fullword: EDUCATION
      description: >
        Indicator of a level of education attained.
      groups: [person]
    EMAI:
      fullword: EMAIL
      description: >
        An electronic mail address.
      groups: [person]
    EMIG:
      fullword: EMIGRATION
      description: >
        An event of leaving one's homeland with the intent of residing elsewhere.
      groups: [event]
    ENDL:
      fullword: ENDOWMENT
      description: >
        A religious event where an endowment ordinance for an individual was performed by priesthood
        authority: in an LDS temple.
      groups: [lds]
    ENGA:
      fullword: ENGAGEMENT
      description: >
        An event of recording or announcing an agreement between two people to become married.
      groups: [couple-relation]
    EVEN:
      fullword: EVENT
      description: >
        Pertaining to a noteworthy happening related to an individual, a group, or an organization. An EVENt
        structure is usually qualified or classified by a subordinate use of the TYPE tag.
      groups: [event]
    FACT:
      fullword: FACT
      description: >
        Pertaining to a noteworthy attribute or fact concerning an individual, a group, or an organization.
        A FACT: structure is usually qualified or classified by a subordinate use of the TYPE tag.
      groups: [fact]
    FAM:
      fullword: FAMILY
      description: >
        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.
      groups: [entity, family]
    FAMC:
      fullword: FAMILY_CHILD
      description: >
        Identifies the family in which an individual appears as a child.
      groups: [link, family]
    FAMF:
      fullword: FAMILY_FILE
      description: >
        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.
      groups: [infosource]
    FAMS:
      fullword: FAMILY_SPOUSE
      description: >
        Identifies the family in which an individual appears as a spouse.
      groups: [link]
    FAX:
      fullword: FACIMILIE
      description: >
        Electronic facimilie transmission.
      groups: [infosource]
    FCOM:
      fullword: FIRST_COMMUNION
      description: >
        A religious rite, the first act of sharing in the Lord's supper as part of church worship.
      groups: [religious]
    FILE:
      fullword: FILE
      description: >
        An information storage place that is ordered and arranged for preservation and reference.
      groups: [infosource]
    FORM:
      fullword: FORMAT
      description: >
        An assigned name given to a consistent format in which information can be conveyed.
      groups: [infosource]
    FONE:
      fullword: PHONETIC
      description: >
        A phonetic variation of a superior text string
      groups: [infosource]
    GEDC:
      fullword: GEDCOM
      description: >
        Information about the use of GEDCOM in a transmission.
      groups: [infosource]
      concerns: gedcom
    GIVN:
      fullword: GIVEN_NAME
      description: >
        A given or earned name used for official identification of a person.
      groups: [person]
    GRAD:
      fullword: GRADUATION
      description: >
        An event of awarding educational diplomas or degrees to individuals.
      groups: [event]
    HEAD:
      fullword: HEADER
      description: >
        Identifies information pertaining to an entire GEDCOM transmission.
      concerns: gedcom
      groups: [gedcom]
    HUSB:
      fullword: HUSBAND
      description: >
        An individual in the family role of a married man or father.
      groups: [entity]
    IDNO:
      fullword: IDENT_NUMBER
      description: >
        A number assigned to identify a person within some significant external system.
      groups: [infosource, id]
    IMMI:
      fullword: IMMIGRATION
      description: >
        An event of entering into a new locality with the intent of residing there.
      groups: [event]
    INDI:
      fullword: INDIVIDUAL
      description: >
        A person.
      groups: [entity]
    LANG:
      fullword: LANGUAGE
      description: >
        The name of the language used in a communication or transmission of information.
      groups: [infosource]
    LATI:
      fullword: LATITUDE
      description: >
        A value indicating a coordinate position on a line, plane, or space.
      groups: [geo]
    LONG:
      fullword: LONGITUDE
      description: >
        A value indicating a coordinate position on a line, plane, or space.
      groups: [geo]
    MAP:
      fullword: MAP
      description: >
        Pertains to a representation of measurements usually presented in a graphical form.
      groups: [infosource]
    MARB:
      fullword: MARRIAGE_BANN
      description: >
        An event of an official public notice given that two people intend to marry.
      groups: [couple-relation]
    MARC:
      fullword: MARR_CONTRACT
      description: >
        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:.
      groups: [couple-relation]
    MARL:
      fullword: MARR_LICENSE
      description: >
        An event of obtaining a legal license to marry.
      groups: [couple-relation]
    MARR:
      fullword: MARRIAGE
      description: >
        A legal, common-law, or customary event of creating a family unit of a man and a woman as husband
        and: wife.
      groups: [couple-relation]
    MARS:
      fullword: MARR_SETTLEMENT
      description: >
        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.
      groups: [couple-relation]
    MEDI:
      fullword: MEDIA
      description: >
        Identifies information about the media or having to do with the medium in which information is stored.
      groups: [infosource]
    NAME:
      fullword: NAME
      description: >
        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.
      groups: [name]
    NATI:
      fullword: NATIONALITY
      description: >
        The national heritage of an individual.
      groups: [person]
    NATU:
      fullword: NATURALIZATION
      description: >
        The event of obtaining citizenship.
      groups: [event]
    NCHI:
      fullword: CHILDREN_COUNT
      description: >
        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.
      groups: [person]
    NICK:
      fullword: NICKNAME
      description: >
        A descriptive or familiar that is used instead of, or in addition to, one's proper name.
      groups: [name]
    NMR:
      fullword: MARRIAGE_COUNT
      description: >
        The number of times this person has participated in a family as a spouse or parent.
      groups: [person, couple-relation]
    NOTE:
      fullword: NOTE
      description: >
        Additional information provided by the submitter for understanding the enclosing data.
      groups: [infosource]
    NPFX:
      fullword: NAME_PREFIX
      description: |
        Text which appears on a name line before the given and surname parts of a name.
        i:.e. (Lt. Cmndr.) Joseph /Allen/ jr.
        In: this example Lt. Cmndr. is considered as the name prefix portion.
      groups: [name]
    NSFX:
      fullword: NAME_SUFFIX
      description: >
        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.
      groups: [name]
    OBJE:
      fullword: OBJECT
      description: >
        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.
      groups: [infosource]
    OCCU:
      fullword: OCCUPATION
      description: >
        The type of work or profession of an individual.
      groups: [person]
    ORDI:
      fullword: ORDINANCE
      description: >
        Pertaining to a religious ordinance in general.
      groups: [religious]
      
      fullword: ORDINATION
      description: >
        A religious event of receiving authority to act in religious matters.
      groups: [religious]
    PAGE:
      fullword: PAGE
      description: >
        A number or desc to identify where information can be found in a referenced work.
      groups: [infosource]
    PEDI:
      fullword: PEDIGREE
      description: >
        Information pertaining to an individual to parent lineage chart.
      groups: [infosource]
    PHON:
      fullword: PHONE
      description: >
        A unique number assigned to access a specific telephone.
      groups: [person]
    PLAC:
      fullword: PLACE
      description: >
        A jurisdictional name to identify the place or location of an event.
      groups: [geo]
    POST:
      fullword: POSTAL_CODE
      description: >
        A code used by a postal service to identify an area to facilitate mail handling.
      groups: [geo]
    PROB:
      fullword: PROBATE
      description: >
        An event of judicial determination of the validity of a will. May indicate several related court activities
        over several dates.
      groups: [legal, event]
    PROP:
      fullword: PROPERTY
      description: >
        Pertaining to possessions such as real estate or other property of interest.
      groups: [person]
    PUBL:
      fullword: PUBLICATION
      description: >
        Refers to when and/or where a work was published or created.
      groups: [infosource]
    QUAY:
      fullword: QUALITY_OF_DATA
      description: >
        An assessment of the certainty of the evidence to support the conclusion drawn from evidence.
      groups: [infosource]
    REFN:
      fullword: REFERENCE
      description: >
        A desc or number used to identify an item for filing, storage, or other reference purposes.
      groups: [infosource, id]
    RELA:
      fullword: RELATIONSHIP
      description: >
        A relationship value between the indicated contexts.
      groups: [link]
    RELI:
      fullword: RELIGION
      description: >
        A religious denomination to which a person is affiliated or for which a record applies.
      groups: [religious]
    REPO:
      fullword: REPOSITORY
      description: >
        An institution or person that has the specified item as part of their collection(s).
      groups: [infosource]
    RESI:
      fullword: RESIDENCE
      description: >
        An address or place of residence that a family or individual resided.
      groups: [person, geo]
      concerns: person
    RESN:
      fullword: RESTRICTION
      description: >
        A processing indicator signifying access to information has been denied or otherwise restricted.
      groups: [carac]
    RETI:
      fullword: RETIREMENT
      description: >
        An event of exiting an occupational relationship with an employer after a qualifying time period.
      groups: [event]
    RFN:
      fullword: REC_FILE_NUMBER
      description: >
        A permanent number assigned to a record that uniquely identifies it within a known file.
      groups: [infosource, id]
    RIN:
      fullword: REC_ID_NUMBER
      description: >
        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.
      groups: [infosource, id]
    ROLE:
      fullword: ROLE
      description: >
        A name given to a role played by an individual in connection with an event.
      groups: [link, carac-event, person]
    ROMN:
      fullword: ROMANIZED
      description: >
        A romanized variation of a superior text string.
      groups: [infosource]
    SEX:
      fullword: SEX
      description: >
        Indicates the sex of an individual--male or female.
      groups: [person]
    SLGC:
      fullword: SEALING_CHILD
      description: >
        A religious event pertaining to the sealing of a child to his or her parents in an LDS temple ceremony.
      groups: [lds]
    SLGS:
      fullword: SEALING_SPOUSE
      description: >
        A religious event pertaining to the sealing of a husband and wife in an LDS temple ceremony.
      groups: [lds]
    SOUR:
      fullword: SOURCE
      description: >
        The initial or original material from which information was obtained.
      groups: [infosource]
    SPFX:
      fullword: SURN_PREFIX
      description: >
        A name piece used as a non-indexing pre-part of a surname.
      groups: [name]
    SSN:
      fullword: SOC_SEC_NUMBER
      description: >
        A number assigned by the United States Social Security Administration. Used for tax identification purposes:.
      groups: [person]
    STAE:
      fullword: STATE
      description: >
        A geographical division of a larger jurisdictional area, such as a State within the United States of America.
      groups: [geo]
    STAT:
      fullword: STATUS
      description: >
        An assessment of the state or condition of something.
      groups: [carac]
    SUBM:
      fullword: SUBMITTER
      description: >
        An individual or organization who contributes genealogical data to a file or transfers it to someone else.
      groups: [infosource]
    SUBN:
      fullword: SUBMISSION
      description: >
        Pertains to a collection of data issued for processing.
      groups: [infosource]
    SURN:
      fullword: SURNAME
      description: >
        A family name passed on or used by members of a family.
      groups: [name]
    TEMP:
      fullword: TEMPLE
      description: >
        The name or code that represents the name of an LDS Church Temple.
      groups: [lds]
    TEXT:
      fullword: TEXT
      description: >
        The exact wording found in an original source document.
      groups: [infosource]
    TIME:
      fullword: TIME
      description: >
        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.
      groups: [time]
    TITL:
      fullword: TITLE
      description: >
        A desc 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.
      groups: [carac]
    TRLR:
      fullword: TRAILER
      description: >
        At level 0, specifies the end of a GEDCOM transmission.
      groups: [gedcom]
      concerns: gedcom
    TYPE:
      fullword: TYPE
      description: >
        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.
      groups: [carac]
    VERS:
      fullword: VERSION
      description: >
        Indicates which version of a product, item, or publication is being used or referenced.
      groups: [infosource]
    WIFE:
      fullword: WIFE
      description: >
        An individual in the role as a mother and/or married woman.
      groups: [family]
    WILL:
      fullword: WILL
      description: >
        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, page 91.)
      groups: [legal]
    WWW:
      fullword: WEB
      description: >
        World Wide Web home page.
      groups: [entity]

