Shawn wrote: > I'm favoring option #3, but do not really have a clear picture of the > requirements (yet). So, anyone want to hammer out the requirements for > a multi user, web based geneology system with me? Maybe with these > requirements we can better evaluate an existing system and save some > development time.
I've been through the research path on this myself and arrived at "option #3" myself for similar reasons. One of the big issues I had with a lot of software is that it assumes that a "family" is the basic unit of everything in genealogy whereas to me it seems more logical that the "person" is the basic unit. The "family" concept doesn't seem to handle things like multiple marriages, unmarried couples, etc., very well. This "family is the core" concept also appears to be codified in GEDCOM. Anyway, the thing to be really careful about with this sort of project is scope creep. With Shawn's idea of what he wants to do, that is a very real danger. It can easily explode into a general purpose store anything about anything type of database. That said, I ran into exactly the same desire to store more complete information. That said, I'm somewhat interested in such a project myself. -- William Astle finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for further information Geek Code V3.12: GCS/M/S d- s+:+ !a C++ UL++++$ P++ L+++ !E W++ !N w--- !D !M PS PE V-- Y+ PGP t+@ 5++ X !R tv+@ b+++@ !DI D? G e++ h+ y? _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
