Genealogy Examples

Per the microformats process, towards the development of a genealogy microformat, this page documents real world examples of genealogy related publishing on the web.

In the wild

• There are 3500 genealogy pages emitting Bday, and dstart/ dtends for birth, death and possibly other dates at genealogy.wikia.com. Representation of larger numbers of events (occupation, residence, military service events) is hampered by the requirement of using <a> links for rel-tags. Wikimedia engine based knowledgebases at wikia and Wikipedia foundation wikis prohibit use of <a> links, so none of the rel-tag representation of the edges (where pages are nodes, and edges are typed links) can be expressed.
• e-familytree.net [1] - my genealogy website which I think I've embedded hcards in. This is my grandfathers family page. If you look at him, the hcard includes birthdate and some x-fields for death, marriage dates and locations. I'd appreciate comments! Rob Salzman - genealogy@e-familytee.net
• The Dring tree [2] for an interesting family tree website.
• Family tree of Abraham Lincoln.
• Winston Churchill in Wikipedia. Note unstructured genealogy in 'early life' section.
• Kennedy family (built by Arbor Vita).
  • Page per couple.
• Helen Elizabeth Kerr
  • Unstructured
• West Midland Bird Club - Norris
  • prose including date of marriage, date of death; the names of his wife and father-in-law; the fact that he had two daughters; and his father's job
  • prose reference to his father-in-law

For additional examples of related information, see gender-examples.

Not from the wild

Pages specifically designed to be demonstrations of how to mark up genealogies in HTML.

• A Partial Family Tree for Queen Victoria — demonstration page illustrating how genealogies can be marked up using hCard, hCalendar and XFN+RDFa.

See also

• genealogy - overview of genealogy microformat effort
• genealogy-examples - research and documentation of existing real world genealogy publishing examples on the web
• genealogy-formats - research and documentation of previous genealogy related formats
• genealogy-brainstorming - brainstorm proposals for a genealogy microformat