Parent Labels Section

Overview

TMG to GEDCOM supports _FREL and _MREL. They are extension records used to describe relationships between parents and children such as "adopted", "foster", etc. The Parent Labels section contains properties that configure these records.

This page uses _FREL and _MREL to describe the extension records, _FREL for the father relationship and _MREL for the mother relationship. You may modify the actual tags used via the GEDCOM Tag Names.Father Relationship Tag property and the GEDCOM Tag Names.Mother Relationship Tag property.

Properties

Method

• When Method is set to "None", TMG to GEDCOM will not include relationship label records.
• When Method is set to "Custom FAM.CHIL", TMG to GEDCOM will use custom relationship label extension records under the FAM.CHIL record that links a child to one or more parents.

  For example, TMG to GEDCOM will write the following records to indicate that person I3 was adopted by parents I1 and I2:

  0 @F1@ FAM
  1 HUSB @I1@
  1 WIFE @I2@
  1 CHIL @I3@
  2 _FREL adopted
  2 _MREL adopted

  TMG to GEDCOM will write the following records to indicate that person I3 was the step-child of father I1 and the biological child of mother I2:

  0 @F1@ FAM
  1 HUSB @I1@
  1 WIFE @I2@
  1 CHIL @I3@
  2 _FREL step

  In the example above, no _MREL record is required because the default relationship type is biological.

Labels

The Labels list controls the values used in the _FREL and _MREL records. TMG to GEDCOM uses a two-step process to determine the output value. Each entry in the list associates a term with a GEDCOM Label.

1. When TMG to GEDCOM reads a TMG project, it converts TMG's relationship tag types to one of several terms to describe common parental relationships.

   TMG Relationship Tag Suffix	Term
   -ado	adopted
   -adopted	adopted
   -bio	birth
   -biological	birth
   -nat	birth
   -can	candidate
   -candidate	candidate
   -fst	foster
   -foster	foster
   -god	godparent
   -godparent	godparent
   -oth	other
   -other	other
   -ste	step
   -step	step
   -unk	unknown
   -unknown	unknown

   For any Relationship Tag suffixes NOT in the table above, TMG to GEDCOM uses the lowercase value of the suffix as the term. So, for example, Father-Custom and Mother-Custom are assigned the term "custom".

2. While writing the GEDCOM file, TMG to GEDCOM uses the terms in the Labels list to determine the GEDCOM Labels written to the _FREL and _MREL records.

   If a term appears in the Labels list, the output value is determined by the term's GEDCOM Label value:

   • If the GEDCOM Label value is not empty, TMG to GEDCOM will write an _FREL or _MREL record with the GEDCOM Label value.
   • If the GEDCOM Label value is empty, TMG to GEDCOM will not write an _FREL or _MREL record.

The standard Label entries used by TMG to GEDCOM are shown below. You may edit the list, and templates may provide their own values.