# KEHOME/knowledge/rhm/applications/Genealogy/greadme.html # Mar/12/2007 Aug/24/2008 #================# # Family History # #================# The most important question regarding Genealogy data is: What are the essential concepts? My answer is: person, birth, death, alias marriage, divorce, children other info. such as address, phone, email, work, school The files in this directory support all the functions of a typical Genealogy application. The mKE inputs are the relations in the rel subdirectory. The mKE outputs are in the ged and report subdirectories. The outputs include a standard GED file, which can be read by Genealogy programs such as Personal Ancestral File. To protect your family history data, I recommend that you copy all the files to your own private directory. Edit each .rel file, adding your own data. #===========# # Searching # #===========# Searching for information is simple, e.g., do read from family.ku done; name has child=?; # children of name name has parent=?; # parents of name name has phone=?; # phone number of name ? has phone; # all phone numbers ? do marry done; # all marriages ? has sex=female; # all females ? isa person; # all persons do read from tree.ku done; do ancestor od name done; # ancestors and spouses do descendant od name done; # descendants and spouses do read from group.ku done; # or lattice.ku using isa*,isc* name isa* ?; # ancestor tree (up) name isc* ?; # descendant tree (down) name isa**1 ?; $Question isc**1 ?; # siblings (up 1, down 1) name isa**2 ?; $Question isc**2 ?; # cousins (up 2, down 2) name isa**2 ?; $Question isc**1 ?; # aunts & uncles (up 2, down 1) You can use "." (current concept) to simplify searches, e.g., . is name; # change "." to name do print od $child done; # children do print od $parent done; # parents do print od $phone done; # phone number . has ?; # all attributes . do ? done; # all actions #==============# # unique names # #==============# Each person must have a unique "name" for recording information. The easiest solution is to use unique names of the form "person/1", "person/2", etc. Many other choices are possible, e.g., using birthdate as a suffix Richard McCullough 1936 Richard McCullough 1940 Richard McCullough 1966 aka.rel records unique name, birthname, preferred name, nickname, married names and other names. You can use the "*" wildcard to get a list of all names that match a pattern, e.g., do find od *Richard*McCullough* done; You can use these commands to retrieve the different parts of a name name := Dr. Richard H. McCullough 1936; do title-name od $name done; # Dr. do first-name od $name done; # Richard do middle-name od $name done; # H. do last-name od $name done; # McCullough do suffix-name od $name done; # 1936 You can use check.mkr to find MISSING unique names and other name CONFLICTs.