(CC'ing the devel mailing list...) Thanks for the suggestions, but most of them are already being addressed in our design (although the website hasn't been updated in a while...). Additional comments below... -- Sean Lamb Chief Webmaster, SCWD, NMRA --- http://www.scwd-nmra.org Historian and Webmaster, Capitol City "N"Gineers --- http://www.msn.fullfeed.com/~slambo/capcity.htm Madison Linux User Group --- http://www.madisonlinux.org On Sat, 6 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, Good luck! > A couple of ideas for you: > 1) I use Family Tree Journal (a shareware program) which treats each person > as an individual. Actually, I do have a registered copy of this package. I like the reporting capabilities in it, especially the full journal report. Unfortunately, there isn't a version that runs on Linux, which is my preferred operating system. I've found that I like the approach used in The Master Genealogist best, especially when I have resources that show conflicting dates for events like birth, but lacking a version for Linux (or any UN*X, for that matter), and a desire to work on a fun project at home, I launched Genes. > 2) The LDS requires that each person have a father and mother which raises > problems if the child is illegitimate or one parent is unknown. This is something that I haven't looked very far into yet. We're working on building a package where every piece of data is optional for the software, but we need to investigate how to make Temple Ready data for submission. It shouldn't be too difficult (he said with a grin...)... > 3) Have a place to indicate if the person is adorpted. On the database schema that is linked from the website (at http://genes.sourceforge.net/dbschema.html), the chi_relationship field will address this. > 4) Have a way to indicate if the marriage ends in divorce.Provide space for > date of divorce. > 5) Provide space for indicating Cause of death, Occupation, Place of burial, > and other information. These two items are taken care of as events. Since every person can have any arbitrary number of events in the database (from 0 to infinity, limited only by hard drive space), there is room to supply multiples of each of these. For one of my own ancestors, his body was buried, exhumed, stored in an attic for three years (talk about skeletons in the closet!), and then reburied in a different cemetery, so I will DEFINITELY make sure that we can do this... > > If I think of other suggestions I'll e-mail you > Goodluck. > Norm > Thanks! We need all the help that we can get. _______________________________________________ Genes-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/genes-devel
