Package org.gedcomx.types

Enum Class FactType

java.lang.Object
java.lang.Enum<FactType>
org.gedcomx.types.FactType
All Implemented Interfaces:
Serializable, Comparable<FactType>, Constable, ControlledVocabulary
public enum FactType extends Enum<FactType> implements ControlledVocabulary
Enumeration of standard fact types.

  • Enum Constant Details

    • Adoption

      public static final FactType Adoption
      A fact of a person's adoption. In the context of a parent-child relationship, it describes a fact of the adoption of a child by a parent.

    • AdultChristening

      public static final FactType AdultChristening
      A fact of a person's christening as an adult.

    • Amnesty

      public static final FactType Amnesty
      A fact of a person's amnesty.

    • Apprenticeship

      public static final FactType Apprenticeship
      A fact of a person's apprenticeship.

    • Arrest

      public static final FactType Arrest
      A fact of a person's arrest.

    • Award

      public static final FactType Award
      A fact of a person's award (medal, honor).

    • Baptism

      public static final FactType Baptism
      A fact of a person's baptism.

    • BarMitzvah

      public static final FactType BarMitzvah
      A fact of a person's bar mitzvah.

    • BatMitzvah

      public static final FactType BatMitzvah
      A fact of a person's bat mitzvah.

    • Birth

      public static final FactType Birth
      A fact of a person's birth.

    • BirthNotice

      public static final FactType BirthNotice
      A fact of a person's birth notice, such as posted in a newspaper or other publishing medium.

    • Blessing

      public static final FactType Blessing
      A fact of an official blessing received by a person, such as at the hands of a clergy member or at another religious rite.

    • Branch

      public static final FactType Branch
      A fact of a person's branch within an extended clan.

    • Burial

      public static final FactType Burial
      A fact of the burial of person's body after death.

    • Caste

      public static final FactType Caste
      A fact of a person's caste.

    • Census

      public static final FactType Census
      A fact of a person's participation in a census.

    • Christening

      public static final FactType Christening
      A fact of a person's christening *at birth*. Note: use `AdultChristening` for the christening as an adult.

    • Circumcision

      public static final FactType Circumcision
      A fact of a person's circumcision.

    • Clan

      public static final FactType Clan
      A fact of a person's clan.

    • Confirmation

      public static final FactType Confirmation
      A fact of a person's confirmation (or other rite of initiation) in a church or religion.

    • Court

      public static final FactType Court
      A fact of the appearance of a person in a court proceeding.

    • Cremation

      public static final FactType Cremation
      A fact of the cremation of person's body after death.

    • Death

      public static final FactType Death
      A fact of the death of a person.

    • Education

      public static final FactType Education
      A fact of an education of a person.

    • EducationEnrollment

      public static final FactType EducationEnrollment
      A fact of a person's enrollment in an educational program or institution.

    • Emigration

      public static final FactType Emigration
      A fact of the emigration of a person.

    • Enslavement

      public static final FactType Enslavement
      A fact of a person's enslavement.

    • Ethnicity

      public static final FactType Ethnicity
      A fact of a person's ethnicity or race.

    • Excommunication

      public static final FactType Excommunication
      A fact of a person's excommunication from a church.

    • FirstCommunion

      public static final FactType FirstCommunion
      A fact of a person's first communion in a church.

    • Funeral

      public static final FactType Funeral
      A fact of a person's funeral.

    • GenderChange

      public static final FactType GenderChange
      A fact of a person's gender change.

    • Graduation

      public static final FactType Graduation
      A fact of a person's graduation from a scholastic institution.

    • Heimat

      public static final FactType Heimat
      A fact of a person's heimat. "Heimat" refers to a person's affiliation by birth to a specific geographic place. Distinct heimaten are often useful as indicators that two persons of the same name are not likely to be closely related genealogically. In English, "heimat" may be described using terms like "ancestral home", "homeland", or "place of origin".

    • Immigration

      public static final FactType Immigration
      A fact of a person's immigration.

    • Imprisonment

      public static final FactType Imprisonment
      A fact of a person's imprisonment.

    • Inquest

      public static final FactType Inquest
      A legal inquest. Inquests usually only occur when there’s something suspicious about the death. Inquests might in some instances lead to a murder investigation. Most people that die have a death certificate wherein a doctor indicates the cause of death and often indicates when the decedent was last seen by that physician; these require no inquest.

    • LandTransaction

      public static final FactType LandTransaction
      A fact of a land transaction enacted by a person.

    • Language

      public static final FactType Language
      A fact of a language spoken by a person.

    • Living

      public static final FactType Living
      A fact of a record of a person's living for a specific period. This is designed to include "flourish", defined to mean the time period in an adult's life where he was most productive, perhaps as a writer or member of the state assembly. It does not reflect the person's birth and death dates.

    • MaritalStatus

      public static final FactType MaritalStatus
      A fact of a person's marital status.

    • Medical

      public static final FactType Medical
      A fact of a person's medical record, such as for an illness or hospital stay.

    • MilitaryAward

      public static final FactType MilitaryAward
      A fact of a person's military award.

    • MilitaryDischarge

      public static final FactType MilitaryDischarge
      A fact of a person's military discharge.

    • MilitaryDraftRegistration

      public static final FactType MilitaryDraftRegistration
      A fact of a person's registration for a military draft.

    • MilitaryInduction

      public static final FactType MilitaryInduction
      A fact of a person's military induction.

    • MilitaryService

      public static final FactType MilitaryService
      A fact of a person's militray service.

    • Mission

      public static final FactType Mission
      A fact of a person's church mission.

    • MoveFrom

      public static final FactType MoveFrom
      A fact of a person's move (i.e. change of residence) from a location.

    • MoveTo

      public static final FactType MoveTo
      A fact of a person's move (i.e. change of residence) to a new location.

    • MultipleBirth

      public static final FactType MultipleBirth
      A fact that a person was born as part of a multiple birth (e.g. twin, triplet, etc.)

    • NationalId

      public static final FactType NationalId
      A fact of a person's national id (e.g. social security number).

    • Nationality

      public static final FactType Nationality
      A fact of a person's nationality.

    • Naturalization

      public static final FactType Naturalization
      A fact of a person's naturalization (i.e. acquisition of citizenship and nationality).

    • NumberOfMarriages

      public static final FactType NumberOfMarriages
      A fact of a person's number of marriages.

    • Obituary

      public static final FactType Obituary
      A fact of a person's obituary.

    • Occupation

      public static final FactType Occupation
      A fact of a person's occupation or employment.

    • Ordination

      public static final FactType Ordination
      A fact of a person's ordination to a stewardship in a church.

    • Pardon

      public static final FactType Pardon
      A fact of a person's legal pardon.

    • PhysicalDescription

      public static final FactType PhysicalDescription
      A fact of a person's physical description.

    • Probate

      public static final FactType Probate
      A fact of a receipt of probate of a person's property.

    • Property

      public static final FactType Property
      A fact of a person's property or possessions.

    • Race

      public static final FactType Race
      A fact of the declaration of a person's race, presumably in a historical document.

    • Religion

      public static final FactType Religion
      A fact of a person's religion.

    • Residence

      public static final FactType Residence
      A fact of a person's residence.

    • Retirement

      public static final FactType Retirement
      A fact of a person's retirement.

    • Stillbirth

      public static final FactType Stillbirth
      A fact of a person's stillbirth.

    • TaxAssessment

      public static final FactType TaxAssessment
      A fact of a person's tax assessment.

    • Tribe

      public static final FactType Tribe
      A fact of a person's tribe.

    • Will

      public static final FactType Will
      A fact of a person's will.

    • Visit

      public static final FactType Visit
      A fact of a person's visit to a place different from the person's residence.

    • Yahrzeit

      public static final FactType Yahrzeit
      A fact of a person's _yahrzeit_ date. A person's yahzeit is the anniversary of their death as measured by the Hebrew calendar.

    • Annulment

      public static final FactType Annulment
      The fact of an annulment of a marriage.

    • CommonLawMarriage

      public static final FactType CommonLawMarriage
      The fact of a marriage by common law.

    • CivilUnion

      public static final FactType CivilUnion
      The fact of a civil union.

    • Divorce

      public static final FactType Divorce
      The fact of a divorce of a couple.

    • DivorceFiling

      public static final FactType DivorceFiling
      The fact of a filing for divorce.

    • DomesticPartnership

      public static final FactType DomesticPartnership
      The fact of a domestic partnership.

    • Engagement

      public static final FactType Engagement
      The fact of an engagement to be married.

    • Marriage

      public static final FactType Marriage
      The fact of a marriage.

    • MarriageBanns

      public static final FactType MarriageBanns
      The fact of a marriage banns.

    • MarriageContract

      public static final FactType MarriageContract
      The fact of a marriage contract.

    • MarriageLicense

      public static final FactType MarriageLicense
      The fact of a marriage license.

    • MarriageNotice

      public static final FactType MarriageNotice
      The fact of a marriage notice.

    • NumberOfChildren

      public static final FactType NumberOfChildren
      A fact of the number of children of a person or relationship.

    • Separation

      public static final FactType Separation
      A fact of a couple's separation.

    • AdoptiveParent

      public static final FactType AdoptiveParent
      A fact about an adoptive relationship between a parent an a child.

    • BiologicalParent

      public static final FactType BiologicalParent
      A fact the biological relationship between a parent and a child.

    • FosterParent

      public static final FactType FosterParent
      A fact about a foster relationship between a foster parent and a child.

    • GuardianParent

      public static final FactType GuardianParent
      A fact about a legal guardianship between a parent and a child.

    • StepParent

      public static final FactType StepParent
      A fact about the step relationship between a parent and a child.

    • SociologicalParent

      public static final FactType SociologicalParent
      A fact about a sociological relationship between a parent and a child, but not definable in typical legal or biological terms.

    • SurrogateParent

      public static final FactType SurrogateParent
      A fact about a pregnancy surrogate relationship between a parent and a child.

    • OTHER

      public static final FactType OTHER

  • Field Details

    • BIRTHLIKE_FACT_TYPES

      public static final Set<FactType> BIRTHLIKE_FACT_TYPES

    • DEATHLIKE_FACT_TYPES

      public static final Set<FactType> DEATHLIKE_FACT_TYPES

    • MARRIAGELIKE_FACT_TYPES

      public static final Set<FactType> MARRIAGELIKE_FACT_TYPES

    • DIVORCELIKE_FACT_TYPES

      public static final Set<FactType> DIVORCELIKE_FACT_TYPES

    • MIGRATIONLIKE_FACT_TYPES

      public static final Set<FactType> MIGRATIONLIKE_FACT_TYPES

  • Method Details

    • values

      public static FactType[] values()
      Returns an array containing the constants of this enum class, in the order they are declared.
      Returns:
      an array containing the constants of this enum class, in the order they are declared

    • valueOf

      public static FactType valueOf(String name)
      Returns the enum constant of this class with the specified name. The string must match exactly an identifier used to declare an enum constant in this class. (Extraneous whitespace characters are not permitted.)
      Parameters:
      name - the name of the enum constant to be returned.
      Returns:
      the enum constant with the specified name
      Throws:
      IllegalArgumentException - if this enum class has no constant with the specified name
      NullPointerException - if the argument is null

    • isBirthLike

      public boolean isBirthLike()

    • isDeathLike

      public boolean isDeathLike()

    • isMarriageLike

      public boolean isMarriageLike()

    • isDivorceLike

      public boolean isDivorceLike()

    • isMigrationLike

      public boolean isMigrationLike()

    • toQNameURI

      public URI toQNameURI()
      Return the QName value for this enum.
      Specified by:
      toQNameURI in interface ControlledVocabulary
      Returns:
      The QName value for this enum.

    • fromQNameURI

      public static FactType fromQNameURI(URI qname)
      Get the enumeration from the QName.
      Parameters:
      qname - The qname.
      Returns:
      The enumeration.