LDS_INDI_ORD:= {Size=3:4}
[ BAPL | CONL | WAC | ENDL ]
A tag that represents an individual's religious event associated with The Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints. (See Appendix A for a definition of these tags.)
but it did not appear in Appendix A. The same was true in GEDCOM 5.0.
The GEDCOM 4.0 spec however did contain the fuller definition of the tag:
WAC Used to identify an event: indicates the temple initiatory ordinances of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
INIL A religious event where an initiatory ordinance for an individual was performed by priesthood authority in a temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
We should document that migrating an older GEDCOM file to 7.0 entails changing WAC to INIL, since INIL obsoletes WAC.
A web search on
GEDC "1 WAC"will show that there exist files in the wild that use theWACtag (and I've personally seen many more such files).https://raw.githubusercontent.com/camhart/webapp/master/uploads/Ira%20Fulton.ged and http://[www.waldensian.info/gedcom-files/CardonAncestors-14Aug2013.txt](http://www.waldensian.info/gedcom-files/CardonAncestors-14Aug2013.txt) are examples that show use by RootsMagic 5.0 and 6.0, respectively.
The GEDCOM 5.3 spec defined it:
but it did not appear in Appendix A. The same was true in GEDCOM 5.0. The GEDCOM 4.0 spec however did contain the fuller definition of the tag:
Similarly GEDCOM 3.0 did as well:
Tamura Jones's site https://www.tamurajones.net/GEDCOMTags.xhtml puts it back into the non-standard so-called "5.6" list.
GEDCOM 7.0 changed the tag to
INIL:We should document that migrating an older GEDCOM file to 7.0 entails changing WAC to INIL, since INIL obsoletes WAC.