TITLE: Tiny Tafel Specification VERSION: 1.7 (Version 2 of TMS) OBJECTIVE: Provide a compact way of describing a family database so that the information can be scanned visually or by computer. This specification is based on an article titled Tiny-Tafel for Database Scope Indexing by Paul Andereck in the April-May-June 1986 (vol 5, number 4) issue of Genealogical Computing. CONSTRAINTS: All data fields are fixed length for easy parsing by software with the obvious exceptions of the surnames and optional places. FORMAT: Header: Column Description 1 Header type 2 Space delimiter 3 - n Text (n < 38) (n + 1) Carriage Return Header Type Description N Name of person having custody of data Mandatory first record A Address data 0 to 5 address lines Optional T Telephone number with area code Optional S Communication Service/telephone number 0 to 5 service lines (MCI, ITT, ONT, RCA, ESL, CIS, SOU, etc) Optional B Bulletin Board/telephone number Optional C Communications nnnn/X/P Optional nnnn = max baud/X = O(riginate), A(nswer), B(oth)/P = Protocol (Xmodem, Kermit, etc.) D Diskette format d/f/c Optional d = diameter (3, 5, 8)/f = format MS-DOS, Apple II, etc./c = capacity, KB F File format Free- form, optional ROOTS II, ROOTS/M, PAF V 1, BK, etc. R Remark Free-form, optional Z Number of data items with optional text Required last item Tiny Tafel Data: Column Description 1 thru 4 Soundex Code (required) 5 Space delimiter 6 thru 9 Earliest ancestor birth year (required) 10 Interest flag, ancestor end of family line (required, see note 1) 11 thru 14 Latest descendant birth year (required) 15 Interest flag, descendant end of family line (required, see note 1) 16 thru 16+SL Surname string area (SL = total surname length) (required, see note 2) above + PL Place name area (PL = total place name length) (required, see note 3) above + 1 Carriage return W Date Tiny Tafel file was generated, DD MMM YYYY format. NOTES: 1. Interest flag: [space] No interest (level 0) . Low interest (level 1) : Moderate interest (level 2) * Highest interest (level 3) 2. Up to five surnames can be accomodated for one line where surname has changed in that line. 3. Place names for the birth of the earliest ancestor and/or the latest descendant must be included. If at least one place name is not provided, the Tafel Matching System will reject the tiny tafel. The place for the ancestor is preceded by a backslash (\) and for the descendant by a slash (/). Example: N Howard L. Nurse A COMMSOFT A 2257 Old Middlefield Way A Mountain View, CA 94043 T (415) 967-1900 S FidoNet 143/26 B COMMSOFT BBS/(415) 967- 6730 C 2400/B/X D 5/IBM DSDD/360 F ROOTS II R Sample Kennedy database Z 29 A252 1915 1947 Auchincloss/MA B160 1698 1933 Bouvier/Long Island NY B530 1906 1939 Bennett/New York B620 1869 1933 Burke/Suffolk Co. MA C200 1803 1833 Cox\Ind C414 1861 1899 Caulfield\Norfolk Co. MA/Suffolk Co. MA C540 1868 1928 Connelly/Suffolk Co. MA F326 1690 1890 Fitzgerald/Suffolk Co. MA F430 1806 1836 Field/PA H200 1806 1857 Hickey/Suffolk Co. MA H500 1802 1865 Hannon/Middlesex Co. MA K500 1858 1892 Kane\Ireland/Suffolk Co. MA K530 1793*1957:Kennedy\Ireland/New York K530 1793*1984 Kennedy\Ireland/Wstchster Co. NY L000 1847 1906 Lee\MA/MA L163 1923 1961 Lawford\England/L.A. Co. CA L532 1753 1783 Lindsay\MA M500 1847 1890 Mahoney\Suffolk Co. MA/Suffolk Co. MA M610 1791 1821 Murphy/Wxfrd Co. IRE M626 1710 1766 Mercier\MA R324 1929 1959 Radziwill\MA S240 1892 1928 Skakel\Cook Co. IL/Cook Co. IL S530 1927 1960 Smith\Kings Co. NY/Suffolk Co. MA S616 1915 1965 Shriver\Carroll Co. MD/Suffolk Co. MA S625 1831 1861 Sergeant\MA T525 1947 1983 Townsend\Baltimore Co. MD/Middlesex Co. MA T653 1706 1736 Trintignant/IT V650 1783 1813 Vernou\CN/CN W453 1767 1797 Wilmouth\NH/MA W 11 Dec 1986