Talk:Genealogy

Familypedia
I don't know about INDUSTRIAL, but there's plenty of automation in Wikia's biggest genealogy site, Familypedia. Over a year ago, a clever programmer managed to get his head around Semantic MediaWiki and start the genealogy wiki on a course that is planned to make it a world leader.

Type your name and your parents' names into the labeled boxes on the standard form, and you get a page with an infobox with all three names (including links to existing or potential pages for the parents) plus a mini-biography cleverly stringing together a story based on whatever other facts you entered in the boxes. Click on a parent's name and you get a form for creating a page for that person, with all three names already in place again (different fields, of course - your name is now in the "Children" field, for example).

Then try to search - you can get yourself a table of, let's say, every man who was born in California between 1800 and 1895 and whose father was called "John" and whose wife's surname was "Smith", displaying whatever facts you choose about each listed person: date and place of birth and marriage, parents, spouses, ... . Of course, you get only the people who have pages on Familypedia; their number is growing as the number of contributors grows.

The site has not yet fully automated the uploading of GEDCOM files, but it can be expected to happen, leading to huge increases in the numbers of individuals listed and searchable.

How about automated family tree display? Check out w:c:family:Charlemagne/tree, for example.

— Robin Patterson (Talk) 15:22, August 13, 2010 (UTC)