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Registers records - Appendix

Mapping between register and Gedcom data

Case of a birth

Birth certificate Individual  
  
IndiLastName

IndiFirstName

 INDI:NAME Optional replaces the name and lastname of the individual with the name in the record
IndiSex INDI:SEX Optional replaces the sex of the individual with the sex in the record
IndiBirthDate INDI:BIRT:DATE Mandatory adds (or replaces) the individual's date of birth with the date of birth from the IndiBirthDate record or, if the latter is blank, with the event date from the EventDate record.
IndiPlace INDI:BIRT:PLAC Optional adds (or replaces) the place of birth.
IndiComment INDI:NOTE Optional adds the comment in the note of the birth of the individual
 
  
  
  
IndiFatherLastName

IndiFatherFirstName

 father:NAME Optional

If the individual already has parents,

If the individual has no parents: searches for families with the same parents' names and with dates compatible with the date of birth (date of marriage, date of birth and death of the parents) If he has several, they are displayed in a list and the user chooses.

If the individual does not already have an associated father in the gedcom: searches for individuals who could be the father (same surname and first name, date of birth and death consistent with that of the individual's birth). If he has several, they are displayed in a list and the user chooses. If no potential father is found, creates a new individual who will be the father and creates a family with the individual as a child.
IndiFatherOccupation father:OCCU Optional  
IndiFatherDead

IndiFatherComment

 father:NOTE Optional  
 
  
  
  
IndiMotherLastName

IndiMotherFirstName

 mother:NAME Optional same algo as for father IndiFatherLastName
IndiMotherOccupation mother:OCCU Optional same algo as for father's profession IndiFatherOccupation
IndiMotherDead

IndiMotherComment

 mother:NOTE Optional same algo as for Father IndiFatherComment
 
  
  
  
GeneralComment


Witness1LastName Witness1FirstName Witness1Occupation Witness1Comment Witness2LastName Witness2FirstName Witness2Occupation Witness2Comment Witness3LastName Witness3FirstName Witness3Occupation Witness3Comment Witness4LastName Witness4FirstName Witness4Occupation Witness4Comment

 INDI:BIRT:NOTE Optional These fields are concatenated and added in the note of the birth of the individual.
EventPlace INDI:BIRT:SOUR Mandatory searches for the source associated with the common place of birth. Proposes to create a source if there is no corresponding source.
Cote SOUR:REFN Optional  
Photo INDI:BIRT:SOUR:NOTE Optional  
Parish INDI:BIRT:SOUR:NOTE Optional  

 

Case of a marriage

<To be completed>

Case of an event of a death

<To be completed>

Case of a miscellaneous act

<To be completed>

 

Import and export file format

ANCESTRIS ANCESTRIS  format

All four types of statements have the same format: the lines consist of 8290 fields separated by a semicolon. The contents of the fields are encoded in UTF-8 format. Each line ends with the separator "\r\n" (end of line in Windows format).

If the semicolon separator character is present inside a field, the field is enclosed in quotation marks when writing to the file. In the same way, if the quote character is present inside a field, a second quote is added after it (see RFC 4180).

Some fields are ignored when Ancestris reads the file depending on the type of event, see the table below.

Tip: It is possible to create a file in Ancestris format with a spreadsheet program to, for example, reuse data already entered with a spreadsheet program.

  1. create a table of 90 columns with the spreadsheet program
  2. put ANCESTRISV4 in the first column of all rows
  3. fill in the other columns as defined below. It is possible to leave cells empty except for the 1st and 8th columns.
  4. save data in CSV or TXT format (with semicolon as cell separator)

 

Column Birth Marriage Death Miscellaneous Comment
"ANCESTRISV4" x x x x version of the format (mandatory)
CityName x x x x city name
CityCode  
  
  
  
 city code
CountyName x x x x county name
StateName x x x x state name
CountryName x x x x country
ParishName x x x x parish name
EventType "N" "M" "D" "V" event type
EventTypeTag ignoré ignoré ignoré x generic event type
EventTypeName ignoré ignoré ignoré x description of generic event type
EventDate x x x x event date
SecondDate ignoré ignoré ignoré x date of insinuation or recording of the event
Cote x x x x Register's reference
Freecomment x x x x photo or folio number
Notary ignoré ignoré ignoré x name of the notary
 
  
  
  
  
  
IndiLastName x x x x

Name of the :

if N: new born, if M: spouse, if D: deceased, if V: speaker n°1
IndiFirstName x x x x firstname
IndiSex x x x x sex
IndiBirthPlace ignoré x x x place of birth or place of origin
IndiBirthDate x x x x date of birth . For a birth it is by default the date of the event.
IndiAge ignoré x x x age
IndiOccupation ignoré x x x occupation
IndiResidence ignoré x x x home
IndiComment x x x x comment from the individual or speaker no. 1
 
  
  
  
  
  
IndiMarriedLastName ignoré x x x former spouse
IndiMarriedFirstName ignoré x x x firstname
IndiMarriedDead ignoré x x x deceased or not
IndiMarriedOccupation ignoré x x x occupation
IndiMariedResidence ignoré x x x home
IndiMarriedComment ignoré x x x comment of former spouse
 
  
  
  
  
  
IndiFatherLastName x x x x father's lastname
IndiFatherFirstName x x x x firstname
IndiFatherAge x x x x age
IndiFatherDead x x x x deceased or not
IndiFatherOccupation x x x x occupation
IndiFatherResidence x x x x home
IndiFatherComment x x x x comment for father
 
  
  
  
  
  
IndiMotherLastName x x x x mother's lastname
IndiMotherFirstName x x x x firstname
IndiMotherAge x x x x age
IndiMotherDead x x x x deceased or not
IndiMotherOccupation x x x x occupation
IndiMotherResidence x x x x home
IndiMotherComment x x x x comment for mother
 
  
  
  
  
  
WifeLastName ignoré x ignoré x wife (marriage) or witness n°2 (miscellaneous acts)
WifeFirstName ignoré x ignoré x firstname
WifeSex ignoré ignoré ignoré x sex
WifePlace ignoré x ignoré x birthplace or orgine
WifeBirthDate ignoré x ignoré x birthdate
WifeAge ignoré x ignoré x age
WifeOccupation ignoré x ignoré x occupation
WifeResidence ignoré x ignoré x home
WifeComment ignoré x ignoré x comment by the wife or speaker n°2
 
  
  
  
  
  
WifeMarriedLastName ignoré x ignoré x Ex-spouse of the woman or speaker n°2
WifeMarriedFirstName ignoré x ignoré x firstname
WifeMarriedDead ignoré x ignoré x deceased or not
WifeMarriedOccupation ignoré x ignoré x occupation
WifeMarriedResidence ignoré x ignoré x home
WifeMarriedComment ignoré x ignoré x comment by the woman's ex-spouse or speaker no. 2
 
  
  
  
  
  
WifeFatherLastName ignoré x ignoré x Father of the wife or of the speaker n°2
WifeFatherFirstName ignoré x ignoré x firstname
WifeFatherAge ignoré x ignoré x age
WifeFatherDead ignoré x ignoré x deceased or not
WifeFatherOccupation ignoré x ignoré x occupation
WifefatherResidence ignoré x ignoré x home
WifeFatherComment ignoré x ignoré x father's commentary
 
  
  
  
  
  
WifeMotherLastName ignoré x ignoré x Mother of wife or speaker n°2
WifeMotherFirstName ignoré x ignoré x firstname
WifeMotherAge ignoré x ignoré x

 

 age
WifeMotherDead ignoré x ignoré x deceased or not
WifeMotherOccupation ignoré x ignoré x occupation
WifeMotherResidence ignoré x ignoré x home
WifeMotherComment ignoré x ignoré x mother's commentary
 
  
  
  
  
  
Witness1LastName x x x x witness n°1 or godfather
Witness1FirstName x x x x firstname
Witness1Occupation x x x x occupation
Witness1Comment x x x x comment from the witness or godfather
 
  
  
  
  
  
Witness2LastName x x x x witness n°2 or godmother
Witness2FirstName x x x x firstname
Witness2Occupation x x x x occupation
Witness2Comment x x x x comment from the witness or godmother
 
  
  
  
  
  
Witness3LastName x x x x witness n°3
Witness3FirstName x x x x firstname
Witness3Occupation x x x x occupation
Witness3Comment x x x x witness's comment
 
  
  
  
  
  
Witness4LastName x x x x witness n°4
Witness4FirstName x x x x firstname
Witness4Occupation x x x x occupation
Witness4Comment x x x x witness's comment
 
  
  
  
  
  
GeneralComment x x x x general comment

 

NIMEGUE format

The four types of statements have different formats.

  • Birth rows contain 30 columns
  • The wedding rows contain 60 columns
  • The death rows contain 38 columns.
  • Rows for miscellaneous acts contain 64 columns

The fields are separated by a semicolon. The last field of the line is always followed by a semicolon. Lines are separated by 2 characters x0A x0D If the semicolon separator character is present inside a field, it is replaced by a period when writing to the file because Nimegue does not support the RFC 4180 recommendation.

 

Column Birth Marriage Death Miscellaneous Description Importing in Ancestris
"NIMEGUEV3" x x x x Mandatory  
CityCode x x x x  
 ignored
CityName x x x x  
  
CountyCode x x x x  
 Ancestris uses CountyCode if CountyName is empty
CountyName x x x x  
  
EventType "N" "M" "D" "V" Mandatory Cannot be empty
Date x x x x  
  
IncompletDate x x x x  
  
Cote x x x x  
  
Freecomment x x x x  
  
EventTypeName  
  
  
 x  
  
EventTypeTag  
  
  
 x  
  
 
  
  
  
  
  
  
IndiLastName x x x x  
  
IndiFirstName x x x x  
  
IndiSex x  
 x x  
  
IndiPlace  
 x x x  
  
IndiBirthDate  
 x x x  
  
IndiAge  
 x x x  
  
IndiComment x x x x  
  
IndiOccupation  
 x x x  
  
 
  
  
  
  
  
  
IndiMarriedLastName  
 x x x ex-spouse  
IndiMarriedFirstName  
 x x x  
  
IndiMarriedComment  
 x x x  
  
IndiMarriedOccupation  
  
 x  
  
  
 
  
  
  
  
  
  
IndiFatherLastName x x x x  
  
IndiFatherFirstName x x x x  
  
IndiFatherComment x x x x  
  
IndiFatherOccupation x x x x  
  
 
  
  
  
  
  
  
IndiMotherLastName x x x x  
  
IndiMotherFirstName x x x x  
  
IndiMotherComment x x x x  
  
IndiMotherOccupation x x x x  
  
 
  
  
  
  
  
  
WifeLastName  
 x  
 x  
  
WifeFirstName  
 x  
 x  
  
WifeSex  
  
  
 x  
  
WifePlace  
 x  
 x  
  
WifeBirthDate  
 x  
 x  
  
WifeAge  
 x  
 x  
  
WifeComment  
 x  
 x  
  
WifeOccupation  
 x  
 x  
  
 
  
  
  
  
  
  
WifeMarriedLastName  
 x  
 x ex-spouse  
WifeMarriedFirstName  
 x  
 x  
  
WifeMarriedComment  
 x  
 x  
  
 
  
  
  
  
  
  
WifeFatherLastName  
 x  
 x  
  
WifeFatherFirstName  
 x  
 x  
  
WifeFatherComment  
 x  
 x  
  
WifeFatherOccupation  
 x  
 x  
  
 
  
  
  
  
  
  
WifeMotherLastName  
 x  
 x  
  
WifeMotherFirstName  
 x  
 x  
  
WifeMotherComment  
 x  
 x  
  
WifeMotherOccupation  
 x  
 x  
  
 
  
  
  
  
  
  
Witness1LastName x x x x witness n°1 or godfather  
Witness1FirstName x x x x  
  
Witness1Comment x x x x  
  
Witness2LastName x x x x witness n°2 or godmother  
Witness2FirstName x x x x  
  
Witness2Comment x x x x  
  
Witness3LastName  
 x  
 x  
  
Witness3FirstName  
 x  
 x  
  
Witness3Comment  
 x  
 x  
  
Witness4LastName  
 x  
 x  
  
Witness4FirstName  
 x  
 x  
  
Witness4Comment  
 x  
 x  
  
GeneralComment x x x x  
  
RecordNo x x x x register's number  

 

EGMT format

All four types of statements have the same format: the lines consist of 44 fields separated by a semicolon. The contents of the fields are encoded inUTF-8 format.

If the semicolon separator character is present within a field, the field is enclosed in quotation marks when writing to the file. Similarly, if the quote character is present inside a field, a second quote is added after it (see RFC 4180).

Some fields are ignored when Ancestris reads the file, see the table below.

Tip: It is possible to create a file in EGMT format with a spreadsheet program to, for example, reuse data already entered with a spreadsheet program.

  1. create a table of 44 columns with the spreadsheet program
  2. fill in the columns according to the definition below. It is possible to leave cells empty except for the first column.
  3. save data in CSV or TXT format (with semicolon as cell separator)

 

Column Birth Marriage Death Miscellaneous Comment
EventType "birth" "marriage" "death" "marriage contract"

"will"

 Event type (mandatory)
CountyCode x x x x county code
CityName x  
  
 x city name
ParishName x x x x parish name if there is more than one in the city
NotaryName ignored ignored ignored x  
Cote x x x x  
PhotoNo x x x x photo number
Day x x x x  
Month x x x x  
Year x x x x  
 
  
  
IndiLastName x x x x  
IndiFirstName x x x x  
IndiSex x x x x  
IndiAge ignored x x x  
IndiPlace ignored x x x  
IndiComment x x x x Writing: ancestris adds the date of birth, occupation and information on the former spouse (for a marriage, death or miscellaneous record).
 
  
  
  
  
  
IndiFatherFirstName x x x x Reading: Ancestris uses the same name as the son (IndiLastName)
IndiFatherDead x x x x  
IndiFatherComment x x x x Writing: Ancestris adds occupation
IndiMotherLastName x x x x  
IndiMotherFirstName x x x x  
IndiMotherDead x x x x  
IndiMotherComment x x x x Writing: Ancestris adds profession
 
  
  
  
  
  
WifeLastName ignored x x x  
WifeFirstName ignored x x x  
WifeDead ignored x x x  
WifeAge ignored x x x  
WifePlace ignored x ignored x  
WifeComment ignored x x x Writing: Ancestris adds the date of birth, profession and information on the former spouse (for a marriage, death or miscellaneous record).
 
  
  
  
  
  
WifeFatherFirstName ignored x ignored x Reading: Ancestris uses the same name as the girl (WifeLastName)
WifeFatherDead ignored x ignored x  
WifeFatherComment ignored x ignored x  
WifeMotherLastName ignored x ignored x  
WifeMotherFirstName ignored x ignored x  
WifeMotherDead ignored x ignored x  
WifeMotherComment ignored x ignored x  
 
  
  
  
  
  
Heirs ignored ignored ignored x

heirs

Reading: Ancestris adds this field in the general comment (GeneralComment)
 
  
  
  
  
  
Witness1LastName x x x x witness n°1 or godfather
Witness1FirstName x x x x  
Witness1Comment x x x x  
Witness2LastName x x x x witness n°2 or godmother
Witness2FirstName x x x x  
Witness2Comment x x x x  
GeneralComment x x x x

Writing: Ancestris adds the 3rd and 4th witnesses

 

 

 

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