[PLUG] Genealogy

["Sean C. Sheridan" <scs@CampusClients.com>]

Why re-invent the wheel? (Rhetorical question, I already know why).


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> I have an itch that I am trying to scratch.
>
> I recently got married and I am going through the experience of
> figuring out my wife's (and I guess mine now too) immense family. She
> tries to explain all of the members to me and how they are related,
> but that is close to useless because I can't SEE how they are related.
>
> So I started playing with the idea of making a little webapp to help
> solve my problem. The first iteration I think is going to be simply
> upload images, tag them with the names of the people in the photos,
> and enable simple parent/child relationships. I can do that and it
> will scratch my own itch, but I want input for the next part.
>
> I really think it would be neat to see where somewhat separate
> families join. I think there are two approaches to how this could be
> done. I could make it so that people install it on their own servers
> then those installs talk to each other or I could try to host it and
> have it be one HUGE family tree.
>
> So how it would work is someone could be browsing all the images in a
> tag, and at the bottom of every page, there are links to the other
> people in the image. The user can jump from one gallery to another. If
> the user finds an image that doesn't have tags, and they know who the
> people are, they can go ahead and tag it.
>
> It could get a little messy since all the tags are people's names,
> there could be tag overlap, incorrect spelling for someone's name,
> etc.
>
> It shouldn't be messy on a per-family basis, and I'm at least going to
> make the app for my own user, but I thought I would get input from
> some other people.
>
> Names...PhotoFamilyTree is already something, I was thinking
> PhotoFamilyFlower...any thoughts on that?
>
> Thanks!
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> Randy Schmidt
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