genealogy-brainstorming

Genealogy Brainstorming

Contributors

• Andy Mabbett

Gender

To make life easier for publishers, the following values should all equate, without requiring the use of abbr to:

Male

• male
• he
• man
• m
• son
• father
• husband
• brother
• uncle
• nephew
• grandfather/ grand-father / great-grand-father etc.
• grandson/ grand-son / great-grand-son etc.
• ...

Female

• female
• she
• woman
• f
• fem
• wife
• daughter
• mother
• sister
• aunt
• niece
• grandmother/ grand-mother / great-grand-mother etc.
• granddaughter/ grand-daughter / great-grand-daughter etc.
• ...

Issue

• What about other languages?
  • See: internationalisation
• Gender reassignment and other edge cases
  • Outside the 80/20 cut-off
  • Could use abbr

Relationships

Additional XFN rel values may be required (e.g. "uncle"; see above for further examples).

From existing publishing practices, it seems likely that primary relationships ("mother", "father", "son", "daughter", "brother", "sister", "husband", "wife"; or perhaps the gender-neutral "parent", "child", "sibling", "spouse") are more commonly expressed when linking from one page to another; though non-marriage partnerships and short-term liaisons should also be catered for.

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