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Event tag	Event description	Event definition
ADOP	Adoption	Legal act declaring a minor child the offspring and heir of parents from which they are not descended biologically.
BAPL	LDS Baptism	LDS Church baptism performed at age eight or later.
BAPM	Baptism	Baptism (non-LDS) performed in infancy and beyond.
BARM	Bar Mitzvah	Ceremony held when a Jewish boy reaches age 13.
BASM	Bas Mitzvah	Ceremony held when a Jewish girl reaches age 13, also known as "Bat Mitzvah."
BIRT	Birth	The event of entering into life.
BLES	Blessing	Bestowing divine care or intercession sometimes done in connection with a naming ceremony.
BURI	Burial	Act of interment of the mortal remains of a deceased person.
CHR	Christening	The act of baptizing and/or naming a child in non-LDS churches.
CHRA	Adult Christening	The act of baptizing and/or naming an adult person in non-LDS churches.
CONF	Confirmation	The act of conferring the gift of the Holy Ghost and, among non-LDS protestants, full church membership.
CONL	LDS Confirmation	The act in which a person receives membership in the LDS Church.
CREM	Cremation	Disposal of the remains of a person's body by fire.
DEAT	Death	The final evnt when mortal life terminates.
EVEN	Event	A noteworthy happening related to an individual, a group, or an organization.
FCOM	First Communion	The first religious act of sharing in the Lord's supper as part of church worship.
IMMI	Immigration	Entering into a new locality with the intent of residing there.
ODN	Ordination	The religious event where a persons authority to act in religious matters is recognized.
ENDL	Endowment	A religious event where an endowment ordinance for an individual was performed by priesthood authority in an LDS temple.
GRAD	Graduation	An event of awarding educational diplomas or degrees to individuals.
NATU	Naturalization	The event of obtaining citizenship.
PROB	Probate	An event of judicial determination of the validity of a will. May indicate several related court activities over several dates.
RETI	Retirement	An event of exiting an occupational relationship with an employer after a qualifying time period.
CENS	Census	The event of the periodic count of the population for a designated locality, such as a national or state Census.

Marriage Event tag	Marriage Event description	Marriage Event definition
MARB	Marriage Banns	The official public notice given that two people intend to marry.
MARC	Marriage Contract	The act of recording a formal agreement of marriage, including the prenuptial agreement regarding property rights of the espoused.
MARL	Marriage License	The legal act of obtaining a license to marry.
MARR	Marriage	The legal, common-law, or customary act of creating a family unit of a man and a woman as husband and wife.
MARS	Marriage Settlement	The act establishing 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.
ANUL	Annulment	The declaration that a marriage is void from the beginning as though it never existed.
DIV	Divorce	The legal civil act of dissolving a marriage.
DIVF	Divorce Filed	The legal act of filing for a divorce by a spouse.
ENGA	Engagement	An event of recording or announcing an agreement between two people to become married

Note tag	Note description	Note definition
ABBR	Short	A short name of a title, description, 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.
AFN	Ancestral File Number	A unique, permanent record file number of an individual record stored in Ancestral File.
ALIA	Alias	An indicator to link different record descriptions of a person who may be the same 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, based on racial or religious differences, or differences in wealth, inherited rank, profession, occupation, etc.
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.
LANG	Language	The name of the language used in a communication or transmission of information.
LEGA	Legatee	A role of an individual acting as a person receiving a bequest or legal devise.
NATI	Nationality	The national heritage of an individual.
OCCU	Occupation	The type of work or profession of an individual.
ORDI	Ordinance	Pertaining to a religious ordinance in general.
PEDI	Pedigree	Information pertaining to an individual to parent lineage chart.
PHON	Phone	A unique number assigned to access a specific telephone.
PROP	Property	Pertaining to possessions such as real estate or other property of interest.
PUBL	Publication	Refers to when and/or were 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. Values: [0\|1\|2\|3].
REFN	Reference	A description 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	The act of dwelling at an address for a period of time.
RESN	Restriction	A processing indicator signifying access to information has been denied or otherwise restricted.
RFN	Record File Number	A permanent number assigned to a record that uniquely identifies it within a known file.
SSN	Social Security 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.
TEMP	Temple	The name or code that represents the name OF a temple of the LDS Church.
TEXT	Text	The exact wording found in an original source document.
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.
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
NOTE	Note	Additional information provided by the submitter for understanding the enclosing data.
PRIV	Private	Private records.
EDUC	Education	Education notation.