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RE: [PLUG] OT, but applicable -> Photo Family Tree
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save yourself a lot of time, pickup the Family Tree Maker software
It makes the job fairly easy for entering the information,
and it will also store photos, and as address books.
Afterwards you can make a pdf of the relationship tree which includes
photos, it's pretty nice.
Although, it's a windows app
There are free programs out there, I have never really worked with them,
then there is the fee to ancestery.com when you want to start digging
to go back further than what can be remembered using census infomation.
Over the last 2 years, I've compiled about 600 names so far, both my
wifes family and mine, and family's family, etc. it's at a point where
I can't print out a "full" tree because it's too confusing, so I can
only print main branches at a time.
Do it now, before people forget. It's great for the grand parents to
view photos, and tell stories about who is who, who married who.
My wifes grandmother was so excited to talk about it, apparantly no one
else in the family has much interest in their "family" other than 2 generations,
once that oldest link is gone, it's almost impossible to track backwards.
I made up a questionaire that asked for Mother/father/brothers/sisters/wife
and Birthdate, deathdate, marraige dates, children names and such, and also
asked to include photos (which would be returned if needed).
Good luck...Email me if you need any search information on ancestery.com, my
membership doesn't expire until March next year...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org
> [mailto:plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org]On Behalf Of Randy Schmidt
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 12:30 PM
> To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List
> Subject: [PLUG] OT, but applicable -> Photo Family Tree
>
>
> 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!
> --
> Randy Schmidt
> x@altorg.com
> 267.334.6833
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