GEDCOM tags, alphabetical list

ABBR ADDR ADR1 ADR2 ADOP AFN AGE AGNC ALIA ANCE ANCI ANUL ASSO AUTH BAPL BAPM BARM BASM BIRT BLES BURI CALN CAST CAUS CENS CHAN CHAR CHIL CHR CHRA CITY CONC CONF CONL CONT COPR CORP CREM CTRY DATA DATE DEAT DESC DESI DEST DIV DIVF DSCR EDUC EMAI EMIG ENDL ENGA EVEN FACT FAM FAMC FAMF FAMS FAX FCOM FILE FORM FONE GEDC GIVN GRAD HEAD HUSB IDNO IMMI INDI LANG LATI LONG MAP MARB MARC MARL MARR MARS MEDI NAME NATI NATU NCHI NICK NMR NOTE NPFX NSFX OBJE OCCU ORDI PAGE PEDI PHON PLAC POST PROB PROP PUBL QUAY REFN RELA RELI REPO RESI RESN RETI RFN RIN ROLE ROMN SEX SLGC SLGS SOUR SPFX SSN STAE STAT SUBM SUBN SURN TEMP TEXT TIME TITL TRLR TYPE VERS WIFE WILL WWW

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