Being an amateur geneaologist, I'd be very interested in seeing your formal procedure. FWIW, I currently use TW to index all of the LDS microfilm scans with my ancestral records ... it would be great to be able to import a GEDCOM, display it, and cross-reference the record to the person, all in TW.
Maybe I'll tackle that after I'm finished Cardo 1.0! ;-> Cheers, David. On Monday, 20 February 2017 11:10:49 UTC-5, Josiah wrote: > > It seems to me that genealogical trees should be doable in TW. > > I should emphasise I don't have the programming skill to actually do it. > > *But I thought others might find it an interesting delimited challenge.* > > WHY am I interested? Because I am an anthropologist. And anthropologists > know lots about kinship systems. And TW could serve as an elegant, > minimalist way to record and document kinship relationships, I believe. > > Kinship diagrams are in one way very easy. They are simply branching > hierarchies of "DESCENT". BUT also central to them is the role of > "AFFINITY" (marriage). > > So what you have is a FUSION of DESCENT lines through MARRIAGE. So its > never ONE descent line. > > This is why Mat's interesting recent experiment using forking lists (<li>) > and smart CSS hits a limit. It can't cope with the arbitrary crossing in > of affines (relatives by marriage) who create ADDITIONAL HIERARCHIES. > > I'm sure there could be a way to do this in TW without having to resort to > overly complex solutions. The logic in genealogical trees is not infinitely > complex. > > If anyone is interested I can layout a formal procedure for constructing > them anthropologists use. > > Technical note: Western style genealogical trees are generally presented > TOP DOWN from ancestors. Anthropologist work from "EGO", i.e. a specific > person and depict the relationships UP & DOWN from there. The final > diagrams are IDENTICAL, but the mode of construction is different. Its > perhaps worth noting that construction from "EGO" gives a very clear > procedure because its always determinate. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/72c81e8f-f448-4d68-aba4-e2bb47faf612%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
