> > It looks easy at Level 1. But at the level of my "Father's Eldest > Brother's Youngest Daughter's First Daughter" I'm not so sure. That is a > description of a relationship chain. How many tags would that be, just to > represent the linkages between "Father" and .... "First Daughter"? >
Including a birthdate on each person. This is the only additional information you need because "Father's Eldest Brother's Youngest Daughter's First Daughter" can then be found by "walking the tree" and testing dates. There are no additional tags required. However this is a complex question and presumes that such a person exists in each part of the tree. I also wonder how often such a question would be asked? also why would it be asked if it is visible in a tree? > > Part of the issue with depicting kinship anthropologists solved well was > to clear delineation between AFFINITY (roughly, marriage) and DESCENT > (roughly, children). If you can figure a way to do that so that each person > is BOTH potentailly an AFFINE and a DESCENDENT (but diferentiable) in an > economic way I'd be interested. My suspicion is you will rapidly get > swamped in tags and not find a solution beyond generation 3 from > complexity. :-) > I would not use tags, as suggested previously,however if I did its unlikely to be more than 4 tags per person. I seriously see no problems. I would expect however there may need to be a date for both birth, and affinities as they are in fact transactions. I would also suggest that the best solution is always the most economical way. As a Knowledge and Information management professional I am confident this can all be encapsulated in tiddlywiki and that producing the graphical representation of such relationships is a matter of user interface design. Regards Tony -- 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/5ea821d1-5275-4262-b8a4-a4b6e09da6d6%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
