Message: 5 Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:47:13 -0000 From: "John Lockley" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FHU] Christenings vs baptism To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Yes, I have agreed with Adrian before that custom events are a great help. However, they will inevitably be "each to his own" and this makes cross-fertilization between different gedcom files problematic to say the least. I'd prefer standardization. I suppose, though, that "each to his own" would make it a brave soul who dared to define an improved standard. ********** I don't have the problem of non-Christian families (just atheist, agnostics and heathens!) but I surmise that most of the major religions/belief systems have a ceremony for naming and introducing new born children to the community. Can anyone provide a list? I would not expect this list to be definitive. But from a list, if anyone has defined their own custom event they could publish it, here at least, and thus begin the process of creating a standard. If I had this problem I would want to publish MY definition to see what the experts in that religion (etc.) thought and which of my fields they thought were inappropriate or missing. DaveT In Sunny South Yorkshire