Geneology Application (OpenInsight 32-bit Specific)
At 15 APR 2011 08:44:25PM Chris Meyer wrote:
Not all programming has to be serious. Just thought for fun to put together a family tree using OI, You can tell I'm getting old thinking about my heritage.
I have recently purchased Family Tree Maker 2011 and found many annoying shortcomings so I wondered what would be involved in putting a family tree in OI.
Has anyone imported a .GED file into OI or further more has anyone put together a geneology application (just for fun).
TIA
Chris
At 17 APR 2011 07:50AM Richard Bright wrote:
Chris,
Same general schema is used for organistional charts and parts of a HR system. Indeed I think the outfit behind Family Tree Maker first got going with Org plus - a business chart application. Think of the family tree as being records within a table linked by hierachical parent-child relationships; each record has a parent key and child keys are generated by relational index back on the same table.
Web and O4W platform has great possibility for graphic rendering of the tree structures.
At 21 APR 2011 08:23AM Aaron Kaplan wrote:
Ignoring the .GED import, since I know nothing of it's structure, it's really not much different than a tree index, which basically, if you think about it is the BTREE index structure (minus the balancing). This is the sort of database structure MV was designed for.
I've also thought about doing it, but I can't trace my tree back before 1901 on my Dad's side and about 1890 on my Mother's Father's side.
My wife, on the other hand, found that a distant cousin did her mother's family tree and was able to trace it back to 11th Century. They only lost the trail when he came over from France with the Normans. The trail is huge. It makes me laugh when she says she has no extended family to speak of.
At 26 APR 2011 08:51AM John Godfrey wrote:
According to QI (a British show) every European is a descendent of Charlemagne. Hello cousins everywhere!