| The GEDCOM standard
provides for certain keywords to be used in place of a specific date to
acommodate situations where the date is not known, but the fact of the
event is. For example, someone born 200 years ago is certainly dead, even
if we don't know exactly when she died. This can be represented by "DEAD"
in place of a death date.
Since FTM uses GEDCOM files as its import/export medium, it has to support
these special keywords, too. The special date keywords permitted by FTM
are:
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Dead
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Deceased
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Stillborn
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Child
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Infant
The first two are only allowed in the "Died" field. The others are accepted
in any date field. |
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The GEDCOM version 5.5 standard. |
| Note: These special keywords used
in a "Born" field will sort to the end of a list under a "Sort Children"
operation. |
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