Re: Unrecognised Gedcom tag: FREE

Peter J Seymour wrote:
> I'm trying to use a gedcom file that has a lot of occurrences of an 
> unrecognised tag "FREE" at the 1 level under INDI (one per INDI). It 
> typically occurs in association with BIRT and DEAT. Problem is I can't 
> figure out what it means and the rest of the data doesn't help either. 
> The main data seems to be a date. Can anyone shed light on this tag.

At the beginning of the GEDCOM there should be an identification
of the program that created it.  That program's do***entation
is the place to look.  If it was hand-edited, the person who
created it is the one to ask.

If both of those are unavailable, post a few representative samples.

-- 
Wes Groleau

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