Jargon
- 1MB GEDCOM
- n. The 1 MB GEDCOM is a GEDCOM file of close to 1MB. I often use this file to
get a first impression of GEDCOM import speed.
- 100k INDI GEDCOM
- n. The 100k INDI GEDCOM is a GEDCOM file with just a few more than 100.000
individuals in it. It is great test of genealogy software performance.
Well-designed programs import the file in a few minutes, lesser programs take
hours to import it, run out of memory or crash.
Note that it is 100k, with a lowercase k for kilo meaning thousand, not 100K with an uppercase K meaning 1024.
- abbreviated tags
- n. “abbreviated tags” is a nonsensical and deliberately misleading term used by the makers of Family Tree Maker (FTM). GEDCOM tags are quite short, most are just four characters longs, and
they are never abbreviated. Every FTM reference to
abbreviated tags
should be read as normal GEDCOM tags
!
See also long tags.
- ahnen numbering
- n. Partly German. Literally
ancestors numbering
; a popular numbering scheme for numbering all ancestors, known and unknown ones.
It is known by several other names, including ahnentafel numbering, but it mostly used with ahnenlists.
See Ahnen Numbering for a detailed discussion with examples.
- ahnen sequence
- n. Partly German. Literally
ancestors sequence
; the sequence in ahnen numbering numbers ancestors.
Example usage: An ahnenlist lists ancestors in ahnen sequence.
See also ahnen numbering.
- Ahnenblatt Anorexic
- Ahnenblatt Anorexic is how the It’s Our Tree Home Edition 1.0
(IOTHE 1.0) review summed up the product:
I'd love to say that IOTHE is a Light edition of Ahnenblatt, but it is a half-destroyed Ahnenblatt. It's Our Tree Home Edition is not Ahnenblatt Lite but Ahnenblatt Anorexic. It is Ahnenblatt without a native database format. Its muscles have been ripped out, and it is left gasping for CPU cycles, to try and move its bones with nothing but skin and tendons.
.
- ahnenlist
- n. German, literally
ancestors list
; a list of known ancestors presented in a particular sequence.
See Ahnenlist for a detailed explanation of ahnenlist and an example.
Most ahnenlist use ahnen numbering.
Many authors and lots of software erroneously refer to an ahnenlist as an ahnentafel.
- ahnentafel numbering
- n. Partly German. Older, apparently confusing and therefore deprecated synonym for ahnen numbering.
- ahnentafel sequence
- n. Partly German. Rarely used and somewhat confusing expression for the sequence ahnen numbers are in. Deprecated in favour of shorter, simpler and less confusing ahnen sequence.
- ahnentafel
- n. German, literally
ancestors table
; ancestry presented in a table form.
See Ahnentafel for a detailed explanation of ahnentafel with examples.
The term ahnentafel has been abused a lot, most often as if it meant either ahnenlist or ahnen numbering.
- adapted ahnenlist
- n. An extended ahnenlist that can support multiple parents,
thus allowing listing both the adoptive and the birth parents.
Introduced in Adapted Ahnenlist.
- adoptive family tree
- n. An adoptive family tree is a family tree in which everyone is adopted.
This definition exist only to highlight how awkward the notion of an adoptive family tree
is.
Introduced in Adoption in Genealogy.
- birth ahnenlist
- n. An ahnenlist that traces back through the families that did the parenting.
If the ahnenlist is an adapted ahnenlist, it shows all birth and adoptive parents.
Contrast with family ahnenlist.
Introduced in Adapted Ahnenlist.
- brick wall ancestor
- n. Ancestors for which you need to visit a brick wall archive.
Originally tweeted on 2010 Aug 1: #genealogy Brick wall ancestor: ancestor for which you need to visit a brick wall archive.
- citation critic
- n. Someone who cares more about the format of their citations than the content of their genealogy.
Originally tweeted on 2011 Mar 21.
- classical genealogy
- n. genealogy without the complications introduced by modern medical techniques.
Contrast with modern genealogy.
Introduced in A Framework for Classical Genealogy.
- Classical Genealogy Framework
- The Classical Genealogy Framework is a conceptual framework that provides clarity of thought for classical genealogy. Genealogy build on these scientifically honest concepts is known as scientific genealogy.
See also Genealogy Framework, classical genealogy, scientific genealogy.
- code-page think
- n. Code-page think is thinking in code-pages, putting a code page central in the design of an applications.
Many ostensible modern genealogy programs, even ones that run on top of Unicode platforms, are coded as if they had just one single code page available.
This is typically the case when old 16-code has been ported to a 32-bit platform without the necessary redesign, but code-page think is also evident in several programs that have been rewritten from scratch to run on a Unicode-based platform.
Programs that suffer from code-page think have serious character set limitations that make them unsuitable for serious genealogist. Typical deficiencies are lack of UTF-8 support and limited LANSEL support.
- Confucius Cascade
- n. The Confucius Cascade is a cascade of increasing difficult import challenges that culminates with the Confucius database itself. Thus, the Confucius Cascade a practical approach to testing a program's ability to complete the import part of the Confucius Challenge.
Introduced in Confucius Cascade.
- confusiahn
- n. Confusion about what ahnentafel does and does not mean.
First used in Ahnen Chaos.
- Confucius Challenge
- n. The Confucius Challenge is a practical challenge for genealogical software; the ability to handle the database of Confucius's descendants. The software should be able to import the database, let you work with it, and export it again. All interactive operations such
as start-up, navigation, editing, saving, and searching should perform at acceptable speeds. It should not just work, but be workable too.
Introduced in The Confucius Challenge.
- cousin bait
- n. Cousin bait is information posted to bait cousins, i.e. to make them find you and contact you.
Typical cousin bait includes web trees and genealogy blogs.
Coined by Greta Koehl's in her 2010 May 15 blog post Online Trees.
- DynasTree Free Tree Promise
- n. The DynasTree Free Tree Promise is the promise by DynasTree
(Verwandt) that building and expanding your tree will always be free. That promise was a major part of their public image.
In 2010 Feb, MyHeritage acquired Verwandt, and that makes MyHeritage the new owner of the Free Tree Promise.
See DynasTree Free Tree Promise.
- family ahnenlist
- n. An ahnenlist that traces back through birth families.
If the ahnenlist is an adapted ahnenlist, it shows all adoptive parents in addition to the birth parents.
Contrast with birth ahnenlist.
Introduced in Adapted Ahnenlist.
- Family Tree Maker Classic
- n. Family Tree Maker Classic is Family Tree as it was before FTM 2008. The last version of Family Tree Maker Classic is Family Tree Maker 16.
Family Tree Maker Classic was originally known as Family Tree Maker for Windows to distinguish it from Family Tree Maker for DOS, and is
usually abbreviated FTW, with the FTM abbreviation reserved for the original DOS product and New Family Tree Maker.
The phrase is used to refer to all FTW version based on the original Family Tree Maker for Windows code, and to distinguish from or contrast with New Family Tree Maker.
First used in Genealogy Software is slow.
Contrast New Family Tree Maker
- fantasy name
- n. Fantasy name is the technically correct term for a made-up name assigned as if it is the actual name, when no real name is available.
The use of fantasy names a mispractice; if a name part is not known, the field for that name should be left blank,
and if you do not even know a name part, you are dealing with an unknown person, not a known person with a fantasy name.
The mispractice of using fantasy names indicates a miseducated genealogist; you should not make names up.
The use of fantasy names not only wrong, but disrespectful too, particular when the ostensibly harmless fantasy name is actually a real name, of a family you are not related to.
The use fantasy names is perpetuated by miseducators who claim that the use of their favourite fantasy names is an accepted convention.
Truth is, the various miseducators who perpetuate the use of fantasy names cannot even agree on which fantasy name to use when.
First used in Genealogy Name Basic.
See also the older articles FNU LNU MNU UNK for an overview of fantasy names,
and Unk is a Real Name.
- FTM GEDCOM
- n. FTM GEDCOM is the GEDCOM dialect of either the original Family Tree Maker (for DOS), or New Family Tree Maker.
Contrast FTW GEDCOM.
- FTW GEDCOM
- n. FTW GEDCOM is the GEDCOM dialect of Family Tree Maker Classic.
Contrast FTM GEDCOM and FTW TEXT.
Some of the peculiarities of FTW GEDCOM are discussed in FTW GEDCOM.
- FTW TEXT
- n. FTW TEXT is a proprietary text format of Family Tree Maker for Windows (FTW).
It is similar to FTW GEDCOM, but the differences make it incompatible with GEDCOM.
Typical FTW TEXT files do not merely violate the GEDCOM specification by indenting lines to highlight the record structure,
FTW TEXT itself uses long tags instead of GEDCOM tags.
Tip: You can easily distinguish between GEDCOM and FTW TEXT files; GEDCOM files start with “0 HEAD”, FTW TEXT files start with ”0 HEADER”.
Contrast FTW GEDCOM.
FTW TEXT articles provides a quick overview of the articles that explore the FTW TEXT problems and solutions.
- FGTEWDTCEOXMT
- n. FGTEWDTCEOXMT (pronounced: FTW-GED-TEXT-COM) is a mix of FTW TEXT and GEDCOM.
Various file readers for applications that were meant to support both GEDCOM and FTW TEXT actually fail
to report tags that are legal in one but illegal in the other because they were
erroneously coded to accept any mixture of both. That mixture is known as FGTEWDTCEOXMT.
First used in Supporting FTW TEXT.
See also FTW TEXT.
- GEDCOM
- n. GEDCOM is an abbreviation of Genealogical Data Communication.
GEDCOM is the de facto standard for data exchange between different genealogical
applications.
GEDCOM was created by FamilySearch, a part of the Church of the Latter Day Saints (LDS).
GEDCOM contains LDS-specific things that genealogical research
does not need, and many genealogy applications do not support.
According to FamilySearch apologist, the GEDCOM 5.5.1 specification (1999-10-02 GC) is just a draft,
and the GEDCOM 5.5 specification (1995-12-11 GC) is still the official standard,
but GEDCOM 5.5.1 is the de facto standard and (GEDCOM 5.5.1 is not really a draft).
The existence of GEDCOM 5.6 remained largely unknown for more than a decade, and it offers no advantages over GEDCOM 5.5.1.
FamilySearch has referred to their GEDCOM XML specification as GEDCOM 6.0
, but it isn't GEDCOM.
See also GEDCOM dialect.
- GEDCOM dialect
- n. A GEDCOM dialect is the variation of GEDCOM supported by a particular application.
Generally, a GEDCOM dialect does not just add some vendor-specific
things, but also omits support for some GEDCOM things, and implements a liberal interpretation of some others, even violates the specification.
Some serious but all too common violations are the use of illegal character sets and vendor-specific tags that
do not start with an underscore as they should.
Documentation for GEDCOM dialects is hard to come by.
Typically, the application vendor does not bother to document the GEDCOM dialect at all,
and users are left to discover the possibilities and limitations on their own.
GEDCOM dialects are referred to by application name, and sometimes by
application and version number, to distinguish them from other dialects.
For example, the GEDCOM dialect supported by PAF is referred to as PAF GEDCOM.
- GEDCOM Four
- n. The GEDCOM Four is the group of four major calendars supported by GEDCOM; the Julian
Calendar, Gregorian Calendar, French Revolutionary Calendar and Hebrew Calendar.
First used in Genealogy Date Basics.
- GEDCOM XML
- n. GEDCOM XML is the least worst and therefore preferred name FamilySearch has used for the specification they have also referred to as GEDCOM 6.0.
GEDCOM XML isn't GEDCOM. Unlike GEDXML, GEDCOM XML is not even based on GEDCOM.
The GEDCOM 6 specification breaks with and is incompatible with the GEDCOM data format, and is based on XML instead.
- GEDCOM X
- n. GEDCOM XML is a proprietary specification of FamilySearch.
GEDCOM X was introduced by the GEDCOM X article on 2011 Dec 12.
Chronologically, GEDCOM X follows GEDCOM, GEDXML and GEDCOM XML.
FamilySearch started promoting GEDCOM X as the industry standard to replace GEDCOM in 2012,
and stopped doing so that same year (GEDCOM X: no industry standard),
after admitting that GEDCOM X isn't vendor neutral. GEDCOM X is tied to the FamilySearch Family Tree API.
The project originally used 0.x version numbers, and version 1.0 was introduced in 2013 (GEDCOM X 1.0.0 M1).
- GEDCOM-as-a-Source
- n. GEDCOM-as-a-source is a colossal conceptual confusion present in programs whose creators apparently do not understand how genealogy, sources and GEDCOM relate to each other;
upon import of a GEDCOM, the import procedure makes up a source for each record, that lists that GEDCOM file as the source for the information in that record...
Actual citations of sources for that record included in the GEDCOM are likely to be ignored by the same import procedure, and thus be lost upon import.
The GEDCOM-as-a-source blunder is real.
It was first observed in 2010, in the StamboomNederland GEDCOM import
and is also part of the 2015 rootsTrust 0.99 GEDCOM import.
After that second look review of rootsTrust, Atavus removed it, and released version 1.0 without the misfeature.
- GEDXML
- n. GEDXML is obviously an abbreviation of GEDCOM XML, but is isn't GEDCOM XML.
GEDXML is an XML-based coding of GEDCOM, introduced in the little-known GEDCOM 5.6 specification.
See GEDCOM 5.6.
- geneablog
- n. Geneablog is a contraction of genealogy blog.
- geneasphere
- n. Geneasphere seems a contraction of genealogy sphere, and that is its obvious meaning, but is has a more specific meaning; geneasphere is a contraction of genealogy blogosphere, the sphere created by genealogy blogs.
- genealogy
- n. Genealogy is the study of family relationships, including blood relationships, official relationship and legal relationship, based on
biological proof, recorded vital events and legal documents.
For some thoughts behind that brief definition, read What is Genealogy?.
- genealogistology
- n. the study of genealogists.
First use of the word genealogistologist in Kerry Scott's Scientists Discover Virus Responsible for Genea-Skankery.
- genealogy editor
- n. A genealogy editor is genealogy application that lets you load, edit, and save a genealogical database.
Contrast genealogy viewer.
- Genealogy Framework
- The Genealogy Framework is a conceptual framework that provides the clarity of thought for scientific genealogy that traditional genealogy lacks.
The recognition that modern genealogy has been complicated by medical possibilities, but that the problem of traditional genealogy is dishonesty in classical genealogy, led to the introduction of the Classical Genealogy Framework in the A Framework for Classical Genealogy.
See also classical genealogy, scientific genealogy, Classical Genealogy Framework.
- Genealogy Nirvana
- Genealogy Nirvana: you are presented with a complete set of records for all Earth organisms that ever lived.
Concept introduced in “Genealogy is never done”.
- genealogy viewer
- n. A genealogy viewer is genealogy application that lets you load and view a genealogical database, but
does not let you edit it and save your edits.
Contrast genealogy editor.
- geneatheology
- n. Geneatheology is a portmanteau word, created from genealogy and theology.
The assumption that any holy book is a reliable genealogical source is geneatheology.
Geneathology isn't genealogy, or even part of genealogy, it is part of theology.
First used in Genealogy without Documentation is Mythology.
- geneathology
- n. Geneatheology is a portmanteau word, created from genealogy and mythology.
The word is inspired by the aphorism that
genealogy without documentation is mythology
.
An ostensible genealogy that does not present sources, isn't a proper genealogy, but a geneathology.
First used in Genealogy without Documentation is Mythology.
- GeneAward
- n. The GeneAwards (pronounced ge-ne-a-wards) are yearly awards that honour
the best and highlights the worst genealogy products, companies and services.
The GeneAwards started with a Best and Worst of Genealogy post in 2006.
By 2007 this had become the GeneAwards.
The graphic design was done during 2008, and retroactively provided for the 2007 winners.
For more info, see GeneAwards.
- IntelliMurder
- n. IntelliMurder is a genealogy software feature that changes the status of individuals for whom no dates are known from Living to Death based on dates known for their descendants.
Introduced by Millennia Corporation in Legacy News 2010-07-08: Legacy Tip - Using the Advanced Set Living feature.
- long tags
Long tags
is what the makers of Family Tree Maker call the proprietary tags they use
in FTW TEXT, not in addition to, but instead of the normal GEDCOM tags.
These long tags are full words that directly correspond to GEDCOM tags, but the use of these longer forms makes FTW TEXT both different from and incompatible with GEDCOM.
See also abbreviated tags.- LANSEL
- LANSEL is an acronym for “LDS’ Adaptation of the National Standard for Extended Latin”, or simply “LDS ANSEL”.
I introduced this term to distinguish between ANSEL and LANSEL. The LDS claims that its GEDCOM specification supports ANSEL, but the table they publish as an appendix to the GEDCOM specification is different from ANSEL.
It is not ANSEL, but LDS' adaptation of ANSEL. Calling it ANSEL is not just wrong, but even a violation of the ANSEL standard.
To properly identify this adaptation of ANSEL, it should be referred to as LANSEL.
- LECI
- LECI is an acronym for lie, export, correct & import,
the technique for getting a same-sex marriage into an application that does not support entering it directly.
This is explained in the article How to enter a Same-Sex Marriage in PAF.
- Medium Size Genealogy
- n. Medium Size Genealogy is the size of a well-researched ancestry of a
(young) living person. This number is dependent on the availability of vital
records, which varies among regions. Barring destruction of these records, it
also increases with each generation.
Introduced in Medium Size Genealogy.
- modern genealogy
- n. genealogy complete with the complications introduced by modern medical techniques.
Contrast with classical genealogy.
Introduced in A Framework for Classical Genealogy.
- MyHeist Family Tree Bandit
- n. MyHeist Family Tree Bandit is an acronym-preserving name for MyHeritage Family Tree Builder,
which sums up what is wrong with this program's behaviour.
First used in MyHeritage Family Tree Builder 4.0 Installation.
- My-Tree-itus
- n. A condition some large genealogy companies and their employees suffer from;
they want your genealogy, all genealogy, and want you to give it to them for free.
Used as early as 2013 by FamilySearch employee Ron Tanner,
a man so afflicted by My-Tree-itus that he actually believes
you are afflicted with My-Tree-itus when you are not eager to give all your data to him for free.
Original definition tweet:
- New Family Tree Maker
- n. New Family Tree Maker is Family Tree Maker 2008 and its successors.
Family Tree Maker 2008 is a complete rebuild of the Family Tree Maker product on top of Microsoft .NET.
The phrase New Family Tree Maker (New FTM) is used to refer to all versions based on FTM 2008 code, and to distinguish from and contrast with Family Tree Maker Classic.
Contrast Family Tree Maker Classic.
- Petty's Paradigm
- n. Petty's Paradigm on Prevaricated Pedigrees is a cynical observation about published pedigrees by James W. Petty. In full, the observation is:
If you have an idea, It’s a Possibility,
If you write it down, It becomes a Probability,
If you publish it, It becomes a Fact,
And If it get’s quoted, It is Gospel Truth!
First published by James W. Petty: Heirlines blog 2010-01-03: Petty’s Paradigm on Prevaricated Pedigree ©.
- plagiaus
- n. An unoriginal blogger who keeps copying ideas from others, without giving credit to the original work or author, while pretending to be original and first.
This derogatory term is reserved for repeat offenders whose work, even when based on other people's ideas, continues to lack in quality what they themselves lack in ethics.
For example, if some blogger, inspired by the GeneaBlog Awards, were to use that idea for a list of blogs she reads,
and not only acts as if the idea is new and original, but actually is so greedily unoriginal that she even tries to steal the name and use it for her list, that would be bad already.
However, it is only when the same blogger does it again, say she also rips off your Genea Jargon page idea by starting a genealogy dictionary blog,
again pretends it's a new and original idea, even calls it the geneadictionary,
while every other entry is just an ordinary word with genea-
in front of it,
and then agressively spams every individual entry for that blog into the geneasphere, that such a blogger is a plagiaus.
- primary event
- n. Primary event is a term for particular events, used to distinguish those events from the secondary events associated with them.
First used in Genealogical Principle: Facts.
See also secondary event.
- primary vital event
- n. Primary vital event is a more precise term for vital events, used to distinguish those events from the secondary vital events associated with them.
First used in Genealogical Principle: Facts.
See also vital event, vital event, secondary vital event.
- Profile/Fragment ratio
- n. Profile/Fragment ratio (abbreviated P/F ratio) is a social genealogy metric.
This ratio is social genealogy equivalent of average size
.
See also Social Genealogy Metrics.
- Profile/User ratio
- n. Profile/User ratio (abbreviated P/U ratio) is a social genealogy metric.
See also Social Genealogy Metrics.
- scientific genealogy
- n. Scientific genealogy is scientifically honest genealogy. Scientific genealogy does not pretend that official records document biological relationships, or that adoption doesn't belong in genealogy.
Scientific genealogy builds on the clarity of thought provided by the Genealogy Framework, which recognises that there is more than one genealogy, and that biological, official and legal genealogy are different things.
See also Genealogy Framework, Classical Genealogy Framework.
Contrast with traditional genealogy.
.
- secondary event
- n. A secondary events is an event associated with a primary event, that only exist because of the primary event. For example, a baptism is a secondary event associated with
birth, and a marriage announcement is a secondary events associated with the primary event marriage.
Old records used in genealogy often recorded a secondary events without recording the primary event.
First used in Genealogical Principle: Facts.
See also primary event.
- secondary vital event
- n. Secondary vital events are events associated with primary vital events. For example, christening is a secondary vital event associated with the primary vital event birth, while burial and cremation are secondary vital events associated with the primary vital event death.
Old records used in genealogy often recorded secondary vital events without recording the primary vital event.
First used in Genealogical Principle: Facts.
See also vital event, vital event, primary vital event.
- shirt-tail cousin
- n. A true shirt-tail cousin, or shirt-tail relative is someone who isn't an actual cousin, but is related to you by some marriage,
such as a sibling of your father's second wife. You are likely to meet them at weddings and family reunions.
Shirt-tail cousin is a convenient phrase to use when remembering or explaining the actual relation is too complicated,
which is why it also used for distant relations, and family friends who are honourary aunts or uncles.
Shirt-tail relative is a Texan expression, and the oldest occurence I found is in
the Austin Genealogical Society Quarterly, Volume XXXV, No. 4 of November 1994 (page 121).
- shirt-tail relative
- See shirt-tail cousin.
- Smart GEDCOM Loading
- Smart GEDCOM Loading is a feature of Family Historian, which uses GEDCOM files as it database format.
Smart GEDCOM Loading was introduced in Family Historian 6.1.
When Family Historian encounters a GEDCOM extension it does not recognise, it does not throw the data away,
but keeps it around in a so-called Uncategorised Data Field (UDF) within the Family Historian GEDCOM.
That UDF record may be practically unusable, because Family Historian does not know what is or what to do with it, but it is not lost.
Family Historian 6.1 features improved recognition of Family Tree Maker and Ancestry Member Tree GEDCOM files, it recognises Ancestry.com GEDCOM extensions and errors that earlier versions did not.
The Smart GEDCOM Loading
is this; Family Historian looks through the UDF records in your database,
and if it spots a record type a previous versions did not recognise but it recognises now, it recovers
that data, the same way as it would import that data today.
The bottom line is that if you imported some Ancestry.com GEDCOM file into Family Historian 6 or earlier, you do not have re-import the original GEDCOM into version 6.1 to benefit from the improved recognition,
you just have to chose Recover Unrecognised Data
from the Tools menu.
- Social Genealogy Metrics
- n. Social Genealogy Metrics (SGM) are metrics for social genealogy sites.
Some metrics are number of users, number of profiles, number of fragments, the P/U ratio, the P/F ratio, and the U/F ratio.
See also Profile/Fragment ratio, Profile/User ratio & User/Fragment ratio.
Social Genealogy Metrics were introduced in Social Genealogy Metrics.
- traditional genealogy
- n. Traditional genealogy is genealogy that pretends there is just one genealogy. It does not make clear distinctions between biological, official and legal relationships. On the contrary, traditional genealogy treats official records as proof of biological relationship.
Traditional genealogist have argued that adoption has no place in genealogy, because genealogy is about blood relationships, while
choosing to ignore the fact that official relationships need not correspond to biological relationships either.
Contrast with scientific genealogy.
- User/Fragment ratio
- n. User/Fragment ratio (abbreviated U/F ratio) is a social genealogy metric.
See also Social Genealogy Metrics.
- vital event
- n. Traditional genealogist do not agree on a definition of vital events. They often define it as birth, marriage and death (BMD), but that is illogical and oddly inconsistent.
The article “Vital Records” in Traditional Genealogy provides an extensive discussion.
Scientific genealogists consider birth and death to be only vital events.
Vital events may be referred to as primary vital events to distinguish them from secondary vital events (such as baptism and burial) associated with those primary vital events.
The article Vital Events provides an extensive discussion.
See also primary vital event, secondary vital event.
- ZEDCOM
- ZEDCOM is abbreviation of Zipped GEDCOM; a ZEDCOM file is zipped GEDCOM file.
MyHeritage Family Tree Builder version 1 through 7 uses a ZEDCOM file as it database format.
The article ZEDCOM discusses ZEDCOM files in some detail.
Genealogy & Technology Acronyms and Abbreviations
general
- ANSEL
- American National Standard for Extended Latin Alphabet
- ANSI
- American National Standards Institute
- ASCII
- American Standard Code for Information Interchange
- BMD
- Birth Marriage Death
- BOM
- Byte Order Mark
- RC
- Release Candidate
- CGF
- Classical Genealogy Framework
- CP
- Code Page
- CSS
- Cascading Style Sheets
- DNA
- DesoxyriboNucleic Acid
- FV
- Fan Value
- GC
- Gregorian Calendar
- GDM
- Genealogical Data Model
- GEDCOM
- GEnealogical Data COMmunication
- gf
- grandfather
- gm
- grandmother
- gp
- grandparent(s)
- FHS
- Family History Society
- GPS
- Global Positioning System
- HTML
- HyperText Mark-up Language
- i18n
- internationalisation
- ISO
- International Organisation for Standardisation
- LANSEL
- LDS’ Adaptation of the National Standard for Extended Latin (LDS
ANSEL
)
- JC
- Julian Calendar
- JD
- Julian Date
- NCR
- Numeric Character Reference
- P/U ratio
- Profile / User ratio
- P/F ratio
- Profile / Fragment ratio
- PoE
- Preponderance of Evidence
- SG
- Social Genealogy
- SGM
- Social Genealogy Metrics
- SP
- Service Pack
- TT
- Tiny Tafel
- U/F ratio
- User / Fragment ratio
- UTF-8
- 8-bit Unicode Transformation Format
- VR
- Vital Record
- XHTML
- eXtensible HyperText Mark-up Language
- XML
- eXtensible Mark-up Language
organisations
- BCG
- Board for Certification of Genealogists (USA)
- CBG
- Central Bureau for Genealogy (NL)
- FHISO
- Family History Information Standards Organisation
- GOON
- Guild of One-Name Studies
- GRO
- General Registry Office (England and Wales)
- LDS
- The Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (USA)
- NGS
- National Genealogical Society (USA)
product-specific
- AFN
- Ancestral File Number (LDS)
- AQ
- Ancestral Quest
- AS
- AncestorSync
- AWT
- Ancestry World Tree
- BK
- Brother's Keeper
- DHE
- Dynastree Home Edition
- FAG
- Find A Grave
- FC
- Family ChArtist
- FE
- Family Edge
- FO
- Family Origins
- FoA
- Faces of America
- FOR
- Family Ordinance Request (LDS)
- FOW
- Family Origins for Windows
- FHC
- Family History Centre (LDS)
- FHH
- Family History Hosting
- FTB
- Family Tree Builder
- FTF
- FamilyTreeFactory
- FTL
- Family Tree Legends
- FTM
- Family Tree Maker (for DOS or New FTM)
- FTMM
- Family Tree Maker for Mac
- FTMWE
- Family Tree Maker World Express
- FTW
- Family Tree Maker for Windows (Classic FTM)
- GB
- GenealogyBank
- GB
- GenBridge
- GDP
- GensData Pro
- GEM
- Genealogy Enhancement Module (Embla Family Treasures)
- GR
- Genes Reunited
- GS
- GenSmarts
- GW
- GenealogyWise
- IGI
- International Genealogical Index (LDS)
- JTF
- JoinTheFamily
- IOTHE
- It's Our Tree Home Edition
- LFT
- Legacy Family Tree
- MMA
- Map My Ancestors
- NFS
- New FamilySearch
- OFT
- OneFamilyTree
- OGF
- OneGreatFamily
- PAF
- Personal Ancestral File
- PGV
- PhpGedView
- PH2
- Personal Historian 2
- RGDS
- Retrospect-GDS
- RM
- RootsMagic
- RME
- RootsMagic Essentials
- RW
- RootsWeb
- SMGF
- Sorensen Molecular Genealogy Foundation
- SSDI
- Social Security Death Index (USA)
- TGN
- The Generations Network
- TMG
- The Master Genealogist
- TNG
- The Next Generation
- UFT
- Ultimate Family Tree
- WC
- WorldConnect
- WDYTYA
- Who Do You Think You Are
- WVR
- WorldVitalRecords
- YFH
- Your Family History (magazine)
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