I am also interested in recording people and families in TW. I'll refrain from calling what I do genealogy - I just collect information, pictures, and stories from family members and bits I find online. I'm not too concerned about the stories being perfectly factual and write most entries (tiddlers) in a free-form format with manual links to parents and children. This does not lend itself to producing trees or graphs, or even generated lists.
I did write a script in the Ruby language to convert a gedcom to a TiddlyWiki. It works acceptably well. Only thing is the wiki is no longer human editable which is important if I want to get other people involved in the data entry and editing. Creating diagrams or trees is extremely useful though and something I'd like to do. I also think going straight to graphs is putting the cart before the horse. There needs to be a system on place for recording basic facts about a person - relationships, relationship types, dates, locations, events, notes, sources, and so on. GEDCOM is the defacto standard for this. It's a fairly flexible format which is why I think it has survived over time, although it is not without issues. Such a system might include: * a standard format for recording facts as fields * standard formats for recording dates, locations, names in fields * a set of templates for displaying and editing people and families * a set of helper macros to "add new person", "add person as child", "add as parent", etc. * more macros to calculate relationships between people (Person A and Person B are 2nd cousins) * probably a lot more It may be even possible to offer import and export of simplified gedcom files but only if said standards were rigidly adhered to. It's a big job, and genealogy is complicated and messy. People and their relationships don't fit neatly in compartments. All of which makes me wonder if the use of TW is even a viable option. Sorry this turned into something of a random thoughts rant. Need to run, tho. Thoughts? On Thursday, July 30, 2020 at 12:19:06 PM UTC-4, giannism...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > Is there any plugin suitable for constructing a genealogical tree in TW5? > I'm trying to do this myself but I'm failing miserably. > > Thanks > -- 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/953c6db4-73ce-41bf-b6d8-7e837c2ed471o%40googlegroups.com.
