Ciao David Thanks!
I'll work-up a decent brief on this over the next few days. Best wishes Josiah On Wednesday, 22 February 2017 02:54:33 UTC+1, David Szego wrote: > > 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. 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/5b9f78a9-364f-4cf6-a2fa-b59d85135390%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
