bimlas wrote:
>
> Originally I started this route and it seemed like a good solution for
> parents, but it led to duplication of siblings. If there is a family that
> has a mother and a father, then I have to indicate to the father that the
> mother is his wife and vica versa. I have to list each of the brothers and
> sisters separately for brothers and sisters. After thinking through this, I
> came to the conclusion that the family itself and its participants should
> be accounted for in a separate tiddler. For example, I could create a "Mom
> + Dad's Family" tiddler with three fields: parents, parents relationship,
> children. Each field would be a list of individuals (father, mother,
> brother, etc.). If I'm wondering who are the chidlren of "father", I'm
> looking for the family tiddler where "father" is in the "parents" field
> ("Mom + Dad's Family"). If I'm wondering about "father" parents, I'll find
> which tiddler contains "father" in the "children" field ("Grandmother +
> Grandfather's Family"). With this method, a "father" can belong to multiple
> families because they are divorced in one family ("parents relationship"
> field) and married in the other. One disadvantage of this is that it is
> harder to do a recursive search (dad's dad).
>
I think it is not easy. Let me comment from the point of view of someone
who has made lots of these charts of actual families ...
"CONJUGATION" is critical. It is the marriages (or co-habitation status
etc) that create the bond that children come from (including adoption).
Once a person is BORN/ASSIGNED their existence is NOT MUTABLE. But
*conjunctions
ARE mutable*/and often multiple over time (e.g. death, divorce,
re-marriage).
So you have a combination of mutable & immutable. Its difficult to
categorise/depict the mutable part!
*The reality of what to do lies in practicality. What is it that end most
users need to depict?*
For most of the Western world that would be the "nuclear family" (mom, dad,
children) replicated one step up (i.e. mom & dad's parents) and one step
down (i.e. mom & dad's children's children). That is 4 generations in total.
*Just getting closer to that point would be a major achievement!!! :-)*
I think once the complications of "conjugation" can be handled everything
will get easier.
Just my thoughts!
Josiah
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