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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;RobSalzman: /* Locations */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;=Genealogy Brainstorming=&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Contributors==&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:RobSalzman|Rob Salzman]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Building blocks==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Since genealogy is about people and their relationships, it is likely that any genealogical microformat will be built from [[hcard|hCard]] and [[XFN]] microformats; with [[hcalendar|hCalendar]] used for dates such as marriages and divorces. The proposed [[citation]] microformat could be incorporated, as many genealogists cite the records they use.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Document types==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Genealogy documents on the web tend to fall into one of several types:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
#A family tree with many members (e.g. [http://jay.askren.net/Projects/SemWeb/FamilyTrees/AbrahamLincoln.html]).&lt;br /&gt;
#A page for an individual, listing their ancestors and descendants for one generation in each direction, plus their spouse(s) and, sometimes, their sibling(s) (e.g. [http://www.comp.utas.edu.au/users/rsmith/levett/ps02/ps02_361.html], [http://www.sussexbarn.com/dring/web/dring/pafg01.htm]).&lt;br /&gt;
#As above, but for a couple (e.g. [http://www.comp.utas.edu.au/users/rsmith/levett/wc01/wc01_045.html])&lt;br /&gt;
#Prose pages which may discuss the families of one or more, sometimes unrelated, individuals (not necessarily in the context of genealogy) (e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill]).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Only the second of these, and some, but by no means all, of the others, are suited to XFN markup.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Properties==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Gender===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
To make life easier for publishers, the following values could all equate, without requiring the use of &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;abbr&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; to:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
====Male====&lt;br /&gt;
*male&lt;br /&gt;
*he&lt;br /&gt;
*man&lt;br /&gt;
*m&lt;br /&gt;
*son&lt;br /&gt;
*father&lt;br /&gt;
*husband&lt;br /&gt;
*brother&lt;br /&gt;
*uncle&lt;br /&gt;
*nephew&lt;br /&gt;
*grandfather/ grand-father / great-grand-father etc.&lt;br /&gt;
*grandson/ grand-son / great-grand-son etc.&lt;br /&gt;
*...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
====Female====&lt;br /&gt;
*female&lt;br /&gt;
*she&lt;br /&gt;
*woman&lt;br /&gt;
*f&lt;br /&gt;
*fem&lt;br /&gt;
*wife&lt;br /&gt;
*daughter&lt;br /&gt;
*mother&lt;br /&gt;
*sister&lt;br /&gt;
*aunt&lt;br /&gt;
*niece&lt;br /&gt;
*grandmother/ grand-mother / great-grand-mother etc.&lt;br /&gt;
*granddaughter/ grand-daughter / great-grand-daughter etc.&lt;br /&gt;
*...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
====Issue====&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* What about other languages?&lt;br /&gt;
** See: [[internationalisation]]&lt;br /&gt;
* Gender reassignment and other edge cases&lt;br /&gt;
** Outside the 80/20 cut-off&lt;br /&gt;
** Could use &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;abbr&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
** See also [http://www.getsemantic.com/wiki/GenderHack GenderHack]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Relationships===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[XFN]] has some [http://gmpg.org/xfn/1 family rel values]: &amp;quot;parent&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;child&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sibling&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;spouse&amp;quot;. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Although, from existing publishing practices, it seems that the above (&amp;quot;primary&amp;quot;) relationships are more commonly expressed than secondary relationships (&amp;quot;aunt&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;grand-father&amp;quot;) when linking from one page to another, additional values may be required (see above for further examples). These could, of course, be used outside a genealogy microformat, as with other XFN values.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Non-marriage partnerships &lt;br /&gt;
* follow-up: specific examples/citations needed.&lt;br /&gt;
... and short-term liaisons should also be catered for (for the parents of illegitimate children).&lt;br /&gt;
* follow-up: some short-term liaisons may already be documented with the XFN values &amp;quot;date&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;sweetheart&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
**Neither &amp;quot;date&amp;quot; nor &amp;quot;sweetheart&amp;quot; is used in genealogy. Children are born to unmarried parents who were neither.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In addition to the gender-neutral primary relationships already in XFN, gender-specific terms may be required (&amp;quot;father&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;mother&amp;quot; for &amp;quot;parent&amp;quot;, for example).&lt;br /&gt;
* follow-up: gender-specific relationship terms are undesirable as described in [http://gmpg.org/xfn/background#gender XFN:Background: Gender neutrality (and avoiding other personal attributes)].&lt;br /&gt;
** &amp;quot;Undesirable&amp;quot; is merely an opinion. Gender-specific terms are used in genealogy (and related matters, such as birth certificates); &amp;quot;non-traditional&amp;quot; genders fall far outside the 80:20 divide.&lt;br /&gt;
*** The point is, gender of a subject is information that should be in the &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;info associated with that subject&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt; (e.g. in their hCard or extension to thereof), not with each and every &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;relationship to that subject&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt;. Duplicating such gender information would violate the [[dry principle]]. This is why gender information is undesirable in a &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;relationship&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt; format, even thought it is desirable in a &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;genealogy&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt; format which would likely include info about the subject and relationships.&lt;br /&gt;
**** In genealogy, relationships (including their gender) are significant; and are published on the web. Furthermore, we currently have no method, in microformats, of publishing a person's gender. Extending (or mirroring) XFN to indicate gender of relationships could be a &amp;quot;quick win&amp;quot; for a genealogy microformat; and would allow links to third party pages to indicate a genealogical relationship, even if it is not possible to edit the third party page concerned (and so no repetition is involved). Adding gender to a relationship adds semantics; &amp;quot;son&amp;quot; is more meaningful than &amp;quot;child&amp;quot;, in the same way that &amp;quot;child&amp;quot; is more meaningful than &amp;quot;relative&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
There might also be a need for &amp;quot;step-sibling&amp;quot;, &lt;br /&gt;
* follow-up: it may be better to update the XFN definition of &amp;quot;sibling&amp;quot; to explicitly include &amp;quot;step-sibling&amp;quot; as it can be reasonably asserted that the [http://gmpg.org/xfn/background#family current definition and background] allows for it.&lt;br /&gt;
... &amp;quot;step-mother&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
* follow-up: it may be better to update the XFN definition of &amp;quot;parent&amp;quot; to explicitly include &amp;quot;step-parent&amp;quot; as it can be reasonably asserted that the [http://gmpg.org/xfn/background#family current definition and background] allows for it.  See above about avoiding gender-specific terms like &amp;quot;mother&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
... and &amp;quot;half-sibling&amp;quot;, etc.&lt;br /&gt;
* follow-up: &amp;quot;half-sibling&amp;quot; is already covered by the [http://gmpg.org/xfn/background#family current definition and background] of &amp;quot;sibling&amp;quot; in XFN.&lt;br /&gt;
**Siblings, half- and step- siblings are separate and unique concepts, not least in genealogy; and in law. Current XFN usage is not tailored (and thus not suitable, at present) for genealogy.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
If XFN is used, then it would be prudent to add a couple of rules or guidelines:&lt;br /&gt;
*Each page {{should}} or {{must}} have one and only one hCard for a person, who {{must}} be the person in the relationship (this allows for non- personal hCards for publishing organisations, in hResume, etc. Otherwise, the system would fail if, say, rel-spouse linked to page, about a person whose sibling or colleague was also hCarded on that page, even if that page was primarily about the person referred to by the &amp;quot;rel&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
**This could be avoided by linking to page-fragments using IDs &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;myfamily#dad&amp;quot; rel=&amp;quot;father&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Dad&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;; &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;myfamily#mom&amp;quot; rel=&amp;quot;mother&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Mom&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; with a stipulation of one hCard per ID (or that only the first hCard at that fragment is considered); since the [http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#adef-rel defined purpose of &amp;quot;rel&amp;quot;] is to &amp;quot;[describe] the relationship from the current document to the anchor specified by the href attribute&amp;quot; and not &amp;quot;the page specified by the href attribute&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
See also: [[xfn-brainstorming#Extending_family_relationships]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Date of death===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Inevitably, more of our ancestors are dead than alive.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Since non-genealogical web pages also publish death dates, it is proposed that hCard be extended to incorporate them. See [[hcard-date-of-death]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Date of baptism===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Older records, from times when registration of births was not carried out, rely on baptism records, A date-of-baptism property is thus required. This could be added to hCard, or be specific to a genealogy microformat, and should be based on hCards &amp;quot;bday&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Locations===&lt;br /&gt;
As interesting and problematic as death, marriage, and baptism dates are, each event also, for genealogical purposes, contains a location which it is important to capture.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In general it is:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Event (Birth, Baptism (Christening), Marriage (n of these), Death)&lt;br /&gt;
** Date&lt;br /&gt;
** Location&lt;br /&gt;
** Source (n sources for each event).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
These things are very difficult to encode in an hcard.   I did it on my genealogy website by coding&lt;br /&gt;
x-birth-location, x-marriage-date, x-marriage-location, x-death-date, and x-death-location, but this, i am confident is NOT the correct way to do this.&lt;br /&gt;
* The new vCard draft has properties called &amp;quot;dday&amp;quot; (for date of death) and &amp;quot;birth&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;death&amp;quot; for locations of each. [[User:TobyInk|TobyInk]] 00:40, 7 Apr 2008 (PDT)&lt;br /&gt;
* For marriage, perhaps a hCalendar Event with the bride and groom each given as attendees? [[User:TobyInk|TobyInk]] 00:41, 7 Apr 2008 (PDT)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
----&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
'''[[User: RobSalzman|Rob Salzman]] 10:10, 7 Apr 2008 (PDT)''' Unless there is only a single person on an html page, I don't see how you can use an hCalendar event for marriage, or XRel's for relationships either.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
My Family Sheets are organized like this:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Husband (name, birth date, birth location, marriage date, marriage location, death date, death location)&lt;br /&gt;
Wife (same, except, usually no marriage information)&lt;br /&gt;
Child1 (name, birth date, birth location, spouse info, death date/location)&lt;br /&gt;
Child2 (name, birth date, birth location, spouse info, death date/location)&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Here is an example http://www.e-familytree.net/F0/F335.htm) (my grandfather)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==See also==&lt;br /&gt;
{{genealogy-related-pages}}&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>RobSalzman</name></author>
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		<id>https://microformats.org/wiki/index.php?title=genealogy-brainstorming&amp;diff=26668</id>
		<title>genealogy-brainstorming</title>
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		<updated>2008-04-07T17:09:39Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;RobSalzman: /* Locations */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;=Genealogy Brainstorming=&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Contributors==&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:RobSalzman|Rob Salzman]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Building blocks==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Since genealogy is about people and their relationships, it is likely that any genealogical microformat will be built from [[hcard|hCard]] and [[XFN]] microformats; with [[hcalendar|hCalendar]] used for dates such as marriages and divorces. The proposed [[citation]] microformat could be incorporated, as many genealogists cite the records they use.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Document types==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Genealogy documents on the web tend to fall into one of several types:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
#A family tree with many members (e.g. [http://jay.askren.net/Projects/SemWeb/FamilyTrees/AbrahamLincoln.html]).&lt;br /&gt;
#A page for an individual, listing their ancestors and descendants for one generation in each direction, plus their spouse(s) and, sometimes, their sibling(s) (e.g. [http://www.comp.utas.edu.au/users/rsmith/levett/ps02/ps02_361.html], [http://www.sussexbarn.com/dring/web/dring/pafg01.htm]).&lt;br /&gt;
#As above, but for a couple (e.g. [http://www.comp.utas.edu.au/users/rsmith/levett/wc01/wc01_045.html])&lt;br /&gt;
#Prose pages which may discuss the families of one or more, sometimes unrelated, individuals (not necessarily in the context of genealogy) (e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill]).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Only the second of these, and some, but by no means all, of the others, are suited to XFN markup.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Properties==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Gender===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
To make life easier for publishers, the following values could all equate, without requiring the use of &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;abbr&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; to:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
====Male====&lt;br /&gt;
*male&lt;br /&gt;
*he&lt;br /&gt;
*man&lt;br /&gt;
*m&lt;br /&gt;
*son&lt;br /&gt;
*father&lt;br /&gt;
*husband&lt;br /&gt;
*brother&lt;br /&gt;
*uncle&lt;br /&gt;
*nephew&lt;br /&gt;
*grandfather/ grand-father / great-grand-father etc.&lt;br /&gt;
*grandson/ grand-son / great-grand-son etc.&lt;br /&gt;
*...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
====Female====&lt;br /&gt;
*female&lt;br /&gt;
*she&lt;br /&gt;
*woman&lt;br /&gt;
*f&lt;br /&gt;
*fem&lt;br /&gt;
*wife&lt;br /&gt;
*daughter&lt;br /&gt;
*mother&lt;br /&gt;
*sister&lt;br /&gt;
*aunt&lt;br /&gt;
*niece&lt;br /&gt;
*grandmother/ grand-mother / great-grand-mother etc.&lt;br /&gt;
*granddaughter/ grand-daughter / great-grand-daughter etc.&lt;br /&gt;
*...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
====Issue====&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* What about other languages?&lt;br /&gt;
** See: [[internationalisation]]&lt;br /&gt;
* Gender reassignment and other edge cases&lt;br /&gt;
** Outside the 80/20 cut-off&lt;br /&gt;
** Could use &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;abbr&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
** See also [http://www.getsemantic.com/wiki/GenderHack GenderHack]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Relationships===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[XFN]] has some [http://gmpg.org/xfn/1 family rel values]: &amp;quot;parent&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;child&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sibling&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;spouse&amp;quot;. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Although, from existing publishing practices, it seems that the above (&amp;quot;primary&amp;quot;) relationships are more commonly expressed than secondary relationships (&amp;quot;aunt&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;grand-father&amp;quot;) when linking from one page to another, additional values may be required (see above for further examples). These could, of course, be used outside a genealogy microformat, as with other XFN values.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Non-marriage partnerships &lt;br /&gt;
* follow-up: specific examples/citations needed.&lt;br /&gt;
... and short-term liaisons should also be catered for (for the parents of illegitimate children).&lt;br /&gt;
* follow-up: some short-term liaisons may already be documented with the XFN values &amp;quot;date&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;sweetheart&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
**Neither &amp;quot;date&amp;quot; nor &amp;quot;sweetheart&amp;quot; is used in genealogy. Children are born to unmarried parents who were neither.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In addition to the gender-neutral primary relationships already in XFN, gender-specific terms may be required (&amp;quot;father&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;mother&amp;quot; for &amp;quot;parent&amp;quot;, for example).&lt;br /&gt;
* follow-up: gender-specific relationship terms are undesirable as described in [http://gmpg.org/xfn/background#gender XFN:Background: Gender neutrality (and avoiding other personal attributes)].&lt;br /&gt;
** &amp;quot;Undesirable&amp;quot; is merely an opinion. Gender-specific terms are used in genealogy (and related matters, such as birth certificates); &amp;quot;non-traditional&amp;quot; genders fall far outside the 80:20 divide.&lt;br /&gt;
*** The point is, gender of a subject is information that should be in the &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;info associated with that subject&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt; (e.g. in their hCard or extension to thereof), not with each and every &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;relationship to that subject&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt;. Duplicating such gender information would violate the [[dry principle]]. This is why gender information is undesirable in a &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;relationship&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt; format, even thought it is desirable in a &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;genealogy&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt; format which would likely include info about the subject and relationships.&lt;br /&gt;
**** In genealogy, relationships (including their gender) are significant; and are published on the web. Furthermore, we currently have no method, in microformats, of publishing a person's gender. Extending (or mirroring) XFN to indicate gender of relationships could be a &amp;quot;quick win&amp;quot; for a genealogy microformat; and would allow links to third party pages to indicate a genealogical relationship, even if it is not possible to edit the third party page concerned (and so no repetition is involved). Adding gender to a relationship adds semantics; &amp;quot;son&amp;quot; is more meaningful than &amp;quot;child&amp;quot;, in the same way that &amp;quot;child&amp;quot; is more meaningful than &amp;quot;relative&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
There might also be a need for &amp;quot;step-sibling&amp;quot;, &lt;br /&gt;
* follow-up: it may be better to update the XFN definition of &amp;quot;sibling&amp;quot; to explicitly include &amp;quot;step-sibling&amp;quot; as it can be reasonably asserted that the [http://gmpg.org/xfn/background#family current definition and background] allows for it.&lt;br /&gt;
... &amp;quot;step-mother&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
* follow-up: it may be better to update the XFN definition of &amp;quot;parent&amp;quot; to explicitly include &amp;quot;step-parent&amp;quot; as it can be reasonably asserted that the [http://gmpg.org/xfn/background#family current definition and background] allows for it.  See above about avoiding gender-specific terms like &amp;quot;mother&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
... and &amp;quot;half-sibling&amp;quot;, etc.&lt;br /&gt;
* follow-up: &amp;quot;half-sibling&amp;quot; is already covered by the [http://gmpg.org/xfn/background#family current definition and background] of &amp;quot;sibling&amp;quot; in XFN.&lt;br /&gt;
**Siblings, half- and step- siblings are separate and unique concepts, not least in genealogy; and in law. Current XFN usage is not tailored (and thus not suitable, at present) for genealogy.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
If XFN is used, then it would be prudent to add a couple of rules or guidelines:&lt;br /&gt;
*Each page {{should}} or {{must}} have one and only one hCard for a person, who {{must}} be the person in the relationship (this allows for non- personal hCards for publishing organisations, in hResume, etc. Otherwise, the system would fail if, say, rel-spouse linked to page, about a person whose sibling or colleague was also hCarded on that page, even if that page was primarily about the person referred to by the &amp;quot;rel&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
**This could be avoided by linking to page-fragments using IDs &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;myfamily#dad&amp;quot; rel=&amp;quot;father&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Dad&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;; &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;myfamily#mom&amp;quot; rel=&amp;quot;mother&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Mom&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; with a stipulation of one hCard per ID (or that only the first hCard at that fragment is considered); since the [http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#adef-rel defined purpose of &amp;quot;rel&amp;quot;] is to &amp;quot;[describe] the relationship from the current document to the anchor specified by the href attribute&amp;quot; and not &amp;quot;the page specified by the href attribute&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
See also: [[xfn-brainstorming#Extending_family_relationships]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Date of death===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Inevitably, more of our ancestors are dead than alive.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Since non-genealogical web pages also publish death dates, it is proposed that hCard be extended to incorporate them. See [[hcard-date-of-death]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Date of baptism===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Older records, from times when registration of births was not carried out, rely on baptism records, A date-of-baptism property is thus required. This could be added to hCard, or be specific to a genealogy microformat, and should be based on hCards &amp;quot;bday&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Locations===&lt;br /&gt;
As interesting and problematic as death, marriage, and baptism dates are, each event also, for genealogical purposes, contains a location which it is important to capture.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In general it is:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Event (Birth, Baptism (Christening), Marriage (n of these), Death)&lt;br /&gt;
** Date&lt;br /&gt;
** Location&lt;br /&gt;
** Source (n sources for each event).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
These things are very difficult to encode in an hcard.   I did it on my genealogy website by coding&lt;br /&gt;
x-birth-location, x-marriage-date, x-marriage-location, x-death-date, and x-death-location, but this, i am confident is NOT the correct way to do this.&lt;br /&gt;
* The new vCard draft has properties called &amp;quot;dday&amp;quot; (for date of death) and &amp;quot;birth&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;death&amp;quot; for locations of each. [[User:TobyInk|TobyInk]] 00:40, 7 Apr 2008 (PDT)&lt;br /&gt;
* For marriage, perhaps a hCalendar Event with the bride and groom each given as attendees? [[User:TobyInk|TobyInk]] 00:41, 7 Apr 2008 (PDT)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[User: RobSalzman|Rob Salzman]] Unless there is only a single person on an html page, I don't see how you can use an hCalendar event for marriage, or XRel's for relationships either.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
My Family Sheets are organized like this:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Husband (name, birth date, birth location, marriage date, marriage location, death date, death location)&lt;br /&gt;
Wife (same, except, usually no marriage information)&lt;br /&gt;
Child1 (name, birth date, birth location, spouse info, death date/location)&lt;br /&gt;
Child2 (name, birth date, birth location, spouse info, death date/location)&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Here is an example http://www.e-familytree.net/F0/F335.htm) (my grandfather)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==See also==&lt;br /&gt;
{{genealogy-related-pages}}&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>RobSalzman</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://microformats.org/wiki/index.php?title=genealogy-brainstorming&amp;diff=26667</id>
		<title>genealogy-brainstorming</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://microformats.org/wiki/index.php?title=genealogy-brainstorming&amp;diff=26667"/>
		<updated>2008-04-07T17:08:45Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;RobSalzman: /* Locations */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;=Genealogy Brainstorming=&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Contributors==&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:RobSalzman|Rob Salzman]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Building blocks==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Since genealogy is about people and their relationships, it is likely that any genealogical microformat will be built from [[hcard|hCard]] and [[XFN]] microformats; with [[hcalendar|hCalendar]] used for dates such as marriages and divorces. The proposed [[citation]] microformat could be incorporated, as many genealogists cite the records they use.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Document types==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Genealogy documents on the web tend to fall into one of several types:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
#A family tree with many members (e.g. [http://jay.askren.net/Projects/SemWeb/FamilyTrees/AbrahamLincoln.html]).&lt;br /&gt;
#A page for an individual, listing their ancestors and descendants for one generation in each direction, plus their spouse(s) and, sometimes, their sibling(s) (e.g. [http://www.comp.utas.edu.au/users/rsmith/levett/ps02/ps02_361.html], [http://www.sussexbarn.com/dring/web/dring/pafg01.htm]).&lt;br /&gt;
#As above, but for a couple (e.g. [http://www.comp.utas.edu.au/users/rsmith/levett/wc01/wc01_045.html])&lt;br /&gt;
#Prose pages which may discuss the families of one or more, sometimes unrelated, individuals (not necessarily in the context of genealogy) (e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill]).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Only the second of these, and some, but by no means all, of the others, are suited to XFN markup.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Properties==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Gender===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
To make life easier for publishers, the following values could all equate, without requiring the use of &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;abbr&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; to:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
====Male====&lt;br /&gt;
*male&lt;br /&gt;
*he&lt;br /&gt;
*man&lt;br /&gt;
*m&lt;br /&gt;
*son&lt;br /&gt;
*father&lt;br /&gt;
*husband&lt;br /&gt;
*brother&lt;br /&gt;
*uncle&lt;br /&gt;
*nephew&lt;br /&gt;
*grandfather/ grand-father / great-grand-father etc.&lt;br /&gt;
*grandson/ grand-son / great-grand-son etc.&lt;br /&gt;
*...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
====Female====&lt;br /&gt;
*female&lt;br /&gt;
*she&lt;br /&gt;
*woman&lt;br /&gt;
*f&lt;br /&gt;
*fem&lt;br /&gt;
*wife&lt;br /&gt;
*daughter&lt;br /&gt;
*mother&lt;br /&gt;
*sister&lt;br /&gt;
*aunt&lt;br /&gt;
*niece&lt;br /&gt;
*grandmother/ grand-mother / great-grand-mother etc.&lt;br /&gt;
*granddaughter/ grand-daughter / great-grand-daughter etc.&lt;br /&gt;
*...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
====Issue====&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* What about other languages?&lt;br /&gt;
** See: [[internationalisation]]&lt;br /&gt;
* Gender reassignment and other edge cases&lt;br /&gt;
** Outside the 80/20 cut-off&lt;br /&gt;
** Could use &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;abbr&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
** See also [http://www.getsemantic.com/wiki/GenderHack GenderHack]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Relationships===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[XFN]] has some [http://gmpg.org/xfn/1 family rel values]: &amp;quot;parent&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;child&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sibling&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;spouse&amp;quot;. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Although, from existing publishing practices, it seems that the above (&amp;quot;primary&amp;quot;) relationships are more commonly expressed than secondary relationships (&amp;quot;aunt&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;grand-father&amp;quot;) when linking from one page to another, additional values may be required (see above for further examples). These could, of course, be used outside a genealogy microformat, as with other XFN values.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Non-marriage partnerships &lt;br /&gt;
* follow-up: specific examples/citations needed.&lt;br /&gt;
... and short-term liaisons should also be catered for (for the parents of illegitimate children).&lt;br /&gt;
* follow-up: some short-term liaisons may already be documented with the XFN values &amp;quot;date&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;sweetheart&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
**Neither &amp;quot;date&amp;quot; nor &amp;quot;sweetheart&amp;quot; is used in genealogy. Children are born to unmarried parents who were neither.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In addition to the gender-neutral primary relationships already in XFN, gender-specific terms may be required (&amp;quot;father&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;mother&amp;quot; for &amp;quot;parent&amp;quot;, for example).&lt;br /&gt;
* follow-up: gender-specific relationship terms are undesirable as described in [http://gmpg.org/xfn/background#gender XFN:Background: Gender neutrality (and avoiding other personal attributes)].&lt;br /&gt;
** &amp;quot;Undesirable&amp;quot; is merely an opinion. Gender-specific terms are used in genealogy (and related matters, such as birth certificates); &amp;quot;non-traditional&amp;quot; genders fall far outside the 80:20 divide.&lt;br /&gt;
*** The point is, gender of a subject is information that should be in the &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;info associated with that subject&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt; (e.g. in their hCard or extension to thereof), not with each and every &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;relationship to that subject&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt;. Duplicating such gender information would violate the [[dry principle]]. This is why gender information is undesirable in a &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;relationship&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt; format, even thought it is desirable in a &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;genealogy&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt; format which would likely include info about the subject and relationships.&lt;br /&gt;
**** In genealogy, relationships (including their gender) are significant; and are published on the web. Furthermore, we currently have no method, in microformats, of publishing a person's gender. Extending (or mirroring) XFN to indicate gender of relationships could be a &amp;quot;quick win&amp;quot; for a genealogy microformat; and would allow links to third party pages to indicate a genealogical relationship, even if it is not possible to edit the third party page concerned (and so no repetition is involved). Adding gender to a relationship adds semantics; &amp;quot;son&amp;quot; is more meaningful than &amp;quot;child&amp;quot;, in the same way that &amp;quot;child&amp;quot; is more meaningful than &amp;quot;relative&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
There might also be a need for &amp;quot;step-sibling&amp;quot;, &lt;br /&gt;
* follow-up: it may be better to update the XFN definition of &amp;quot;sibling&amp;quot; to explicitly include &amp;quot;step-sibling&amp;quot; as it can be reasonably asserted that the [http://gmpg.org/xfn/background#family current definition and background] allows for it.&lt;br /&gt;
... &amp;quot;step-mother&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
* follow-up: it may be better to update the XFN definition of &amp;quot;parent&amp;quot; to explicitly include &amp;quot;step-parent&amp;quot; as it can be reasonably asserted that the [http://gmpg.org/xfn/background#family current definition and background] allows for it.  See above about avoiding gender-specific terms like &amp;quot;mother&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
... and &amp;quot;half-sibling&amp;quot;, etc.&lt;br /&gt;
* follow-up: &amp;quot;half-sibling&amp;quot; is already covered by the [http://gmpg.org/xfn/background#family current definition and background] of &amp;quot;sibling&amp;quot; in XFN.&lt;br /&gt;
**Siblings, half- and step- siblings are separate and unique concepts, not least in genealogy; and in law. Current XFN usage is not tailored (and thus not suitable, at present) for genealogy.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
If XFN is used, then it would be prudent to add a couple of rules or guidelines:&lt;br /&gt;
*Each page {{should}} or {{must}} have one and only one hCard for a person, who {{must}} be the person in the relationship (this allows for non- personal hCards for publishing organisations, in hResume, etc. Otherwise, the system would fail if, say, rel-spouse linked to page, about a person whose sibling or colleague was also hCarded on that page, even if that page was primarily about the person referred to by the &amp;quot;rel&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
**This could be avoided by linking to page-fragments using IDs &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;myfamily#dad&amp;quot; rel=&amp;quot;father&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Dad&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;; &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;myfamily#mom&amp;quot; rel=&amp;quot;mother&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Mom&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; with a stipulation of one hCard per ID (or that only the first hCard at that fragment is considered); since the [http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#adef-rel defined purpose of &amp;quot;rel&amp;quot;] is to &amp;quot;[describe] the relationship from the current document to the anchor specified by the href attribute&amp;quot; and not &amp;quot;the page specified by the href attribute&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
See also: [[xfn-brainstorming#Extending_family_relationships]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Date of death===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Inevitably, more of our ancestors are dead than alive.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Since non-genealogical web pages also publish death dates, it is proposed that hCard be extended to incorporate them. See [[hcard-date-of-death]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Date of baptism===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Older records, from times when registration of births was not carried out, rely on baptism records, A date-of-baptism property is thus required. This could be added to hCard, or be specific to a genealogy microformat, and should be based on hCards &amp;quot;bday&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Locations===&lt;br /&gt;
As interesting and problematic as death, marriage, and baptism dates are, each event also, for genealogical purposes, contains a location which it is important to capture.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In general it is:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Event (Birth, Baptism (Christening), Marriage (n of these), Death)&lt;br /&gt;
** Date&lt;br /&gt;
** Location&lt;br /&gt;
** Source (n sources for each event).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
These things are very difficult to encode in an hcard.   I did it on my genealogy website by coding&lt;br /&gt;
x-birth-location, x-marriage-date, x-marriage-location, x-death-date, and x-death-location, but this, i am confident is NOT the correct way to do this.&lt;br /&gt;
* The new vCard draft has properties called &amp;quot;dday&amp;quot; (for date of death) and &amp;quot;birth&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;death&amp;quot; for locations of each. [[User:TobyInk|TobyInk]] 00:40, 7 Apr 2008 (PDT)&lt;br /&gt;
* For marriage, perhaps a hCalendar Event with the bride and groom each given as attendees? [[User:TobyInk|TobyInk]] 00:41, 7 Apr 2008 (PDT)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Unless there is only a single person on an html page, I don't see how you can use an hCalendar event for marriage, or XRel's for relationships either.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
My Family Sheets are organized like this:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Husband (name, birth date, birth location, marriage date, marriage location, death date, death location)&lt;br /&gt;
Wife (same, except, usually no marriage information)&lt;br /&gt;
Child1 (name, birth date, birth location, spouse info, death date/location)&lt;br /&gt;
Child2 (name, birth date, birth location, spouse info, death date/location)&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Here is an example http://www.e-familytree.net/F0/F335.htm) (my grandfather)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==See also==&lt;br /&gt;
{{genealogy-related-pages}}&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>RobSalzman</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://microformats.org/wiki/index.php?title=User:RobSalzman&amp;diff=33966</id>
		<title>User:RobSalzman</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://microformats.org/wiki/index.php?title=User:RobSalzman&amp;diff=33966"/>
		<updated>2008-04-06T22:48:02Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;RobSalzman: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Hi I'm Rob Salzman.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I've coded up husbands in my large online genealogy tree at &lt;br /&gt;
http://www.e-familytree.net&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
all people in the tree have an hcard.&lt;br /&gt;
husbands have birth, and x-birth-location, x-death-date x-death-location coded up as well.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>RobSalzman</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://microformats.org/wiki/index.php?title=genealogy-brainstorming&amp;diff=26658</id>
		<title>genealogy-brainstorming</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://microformats.org/wiki/index.php?title=genealogy-brainstorming&amp;diff=26658"/>
		<updated>2008-04-06T22:46:19Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;RobSalzman: /* Genealogy Brainstorming */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;=Genealogy Brainstorming=&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Contributors==&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:RobSalzman|Rob Salzman]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Building blocks==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Since genealogy is about people and their relationships, it is likely that any genealogical microformat will be built from [[hcard|hCard]] and [[XFN]] microformats; with [[hcalendar|hCalendar]] used for dates such as marriages and divorces. The proposed [[citation]] microformat could be incorporated, as many genealogists cite the records they use.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Document types==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Genealogy documents on the web tend to fall into one of several types:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
#A family tree with many members (e.g. [http://jay.askren.net/Projects/SemWeb/FamilyTrees/AbrahamLincoln.html]).&lt;br /&gt;
#A page for an individual, listing their ancestors and descendants for one generation in each direction, plus their spouse(s) and, sometimes, their sibling(s) (e.g. [http://www.comp.utas.edu.au/users/rsmith/levett/ps02/ps02_361.html], [http://www.sussexbarn.com/dring/web/dring/pafg01.htm]).&lt;br /&gt;
#As above, but for a couple (e.g. [http://www.comp.utas.edu.au/users/rsmith/levett/wc01/wc01_045.html])&lt;br /&gt;
#Prose pages which may discuss the families of one or more, sometimes unrelated, individuals (not necessarily in the context of genealogy) (e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill]).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Only the second of these, and some, but by no means all, of the others, are suited to XFN markup.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Properties==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Gender===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
To make life easier for publishers, the following values could all equate, without requiring the use of &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;abbr&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; to:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
====Male====&lt;br /&gt;
*male&lt;br /&gt;
*he&lt;br /&gt;
*man&lt;br /&gt;
*m&lt;br /&gt;
*son&lt;br /&gt;
*father&lt;br /&gt;
*husband&lt;br /&gt;
*brother&lt;br /&gt;
*uncle&lt;br /&gt;
*nephew&lt;br /&gt;
*grandfather/ grand-father / great-grand-father etc.&lt;br /&gt;
*grandson/ grand-son / great-grand-son etc.&lt;br /&gt;
*...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
====Female====&lt;br /&gt;
*female&lt;br /&gt;
*she&lt;br /&gt;
*woman&lt;br /&gt;
*f&lt;br /&gt;
*fem&lt;br /&gt;
*wife&lt;br /&gt;
*daughter&lt;br /&gt;
*mother&lt;br /&gt;
*sister&lt;br /&gt;
*aunt&lt;br /&gt;
*niece&lt;br /&gt;
*grandmother/ grand-mother / great-grand-mother etc.&lt;br /&gt;
*granddaughter/ grand-daughter / great-grand-daughter etc.&lt;br /&gt;
*...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
====Issue====&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* What about other languages?&lt;br /&gt;
** See: [[internationalisation]]&lt;br /&gt;
* Gender reassignment and other edge cases&lt;br /&gt;
** Outside the 80/20 cut-off&lt;br /&gt;
** Could use &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;abbr&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
** See also [http://www.getsemantic.com/wiki/GenderHack GenderHack]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Relationships===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[XFN]] has some [http://gmpg.org/xfn/1 family rel values]: &amp;quot;parent&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;child&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sibling&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;spouse&amp;quot;. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Although, from existing publishing practices, it seems that the above (&amp;quot;primary&amp;quot;) relationships are more commonly expressed than secondary relationships (&amp;quot;aunt&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;grand-father&amp;quot;) when linking from one page to another, additional values may be required (see above for further examples). These could, of course, be used outside a genealogy microformat, as with other XFN values.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Non-marriage partnerships &lt;br /&gt;
* follow-up: specific examples/citations needed.&lt;br /&gt;
... and short-term liaisons should also be catered for (for the parents of illegitimate children).&lt;br /&gt;
* follow-up: some short-term liaisons may already be documented with the XFN values &amp;quot;date&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;sweetheart&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
**Neither &amp;quot;date&amp;quot; nor &amp;quot;sweetheart&amp;quot; is used in genealogy. Children are born to unmarried parents who were neither.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In addition to the gender-neutral primary relationships already in XFN, gender-specific terms may be required (&amp;quot;father&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;mother&amp;quot; for &amp;quot;parent&amp;quot;, for example).&lt;br /&gt;
* follow-up: gender-specific relationship terms are undesirable as described in [http://gmpg.org/xfn/background#gender XFN:Background: Gender neutrality (and avoiding other personal attributes)].&lt;br /&gt;
** &amp;quot;Undesirable&amp;quot; is merely an opinion. Gender-specific terms are used in genealogy (and related matters, such as birth certificates); &amp;quot;non-traditional&amp;quot; genders fall far outside the 80:20 divide.&lt;br /&gt;
*** The point is, gender of a subject is information that should be in the &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;info associated with that subject&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt; (e.g. in their hCard or extension to thereof), not with each and every &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;relationship to that subject&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt;. Duplicating such gender information would violate the [[dry principle]]. This is why gender information is undesirable in a &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;relationship&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt; format, even thought it is desirable in a &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;genealogy&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt; format which would likely include info about the subject and relationships.&lt;br /&gt;
**** In genealogy, relationships (including their gender) are significant; and are published on the web. Furthermore, we currently have no method, in microformats, of publishing a person's gender. Extending (or mirroring) XFN to indicate gender of relationships could be a &amp;quot;quick win&amp;quot; for a genealogy microformat; and would allow links to third party pages to indicate a genealogical relationship, even if it is not possible to edit the third party page concerned (and so no repetition is involved). Adding gender to a relationship adds semantics; &amp;quot;son&amp;quot; is more meaningful than &amp;quot;child&amp;quot;, in the same way that &amp;quot;child&amp;quot; is more meaningful than &amp;quot;relative&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
There might also be a need for &amp;quot;step-sibling&amp;quot;, &lt;br /&gt;
* follow-up: it may be better to update the XFN definition of &amp;quot;sibling&amp;quot; to explicitly include &amp;quot;step-sibling&amp;quot; as it can be reasonably asserted that the [http://gmpg.org/xfn/background#family current definition and background] allows for it.&lt;br /&gt;
... &amp;quot;step-mother&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
* follow-up: it may be better to update the XFN definition of &amp;quot;parent&amp;quot; to explicitly include &amp;quot;step-parent&amp;quot; as it can be reasonably asserted that the [http://gmpg.org/xfn/background#family current definition and background] allows for it.  See above about avoiding gender-specific terms like &amp;quot;mother&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
... and &amp;quot;half-sibling&amp;quot;, etc.&lt;br /&gt;
* follow-up: &amp;quot;half-sibling&amp;quot; is already covered by the [http://gmpg.org/xfn/background#family current definition and background] of &amp;quot;sibling&amp;quot; in XFN.&lt;br /&gt;
**Siblings, half- and step- siblings are separate and unique concepts, not least in genealogy; and in law. Current XFN usage is not tailored (and thus not suitable, at present) for genealogy.&lt;br /&gt;
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If XFN is used, then it would be prudent to add a couple of rules or guidelines:&lt;br /&gt;
*Each page {{should}} or {{must}} have one and only one hCard for a person, who {{must}} be the person in the relationship (this allows for non- personal hCards for publishing organisations, in hResume, etc. Otherwise, the system would fail if, say, rel-spouse linked to page, about a person whose sibling or colleague was also hCarded on that page, even if that page was primarily about the person referred to by the &amp;quot;rel&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
**This could be avoided by linking to page-fragments using IDs &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;myfamily#dad&amp;quot; rel=&amp;quot;father&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Dad&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;; &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;myfamily#mom&amp;quot; rel=&amp;quot;mother&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Mom&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; with a stipulation of one hCard per ID (or that only the first hCard at that fragment is considered); since the [http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#adef-rel defined purpose of &amp;quot;rel&amp;quot;] is to &amp;quot;[describe] the relationship from the current document to the anchor specified by the href attribute&amp;quot; and not &amp;quot;the page specified by the href attribute&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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See also: [[xfn-brainstorming#Extending_family_relationships]]&lt;br /&gt;
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===Date of death===&lt;br /&gt;
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Inevitably, more of our ancestors are dead than alive.&lt;br /&gt;
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Since non-genealogical web pages also publish death dates, it is proposed that hCard be extended to incorporate them. See [[hcard-date-of-death]]&lt;br /&gt;
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===Date of baptism===&lt;br /&gt;
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Older records, from times when registration of births was not carried out, rely on baptism records, A date-of-baptism property is thus required. This could be added to hCard, or be specific to a genealogy microformat, and should be based on hCards &amp;quot;bday&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Locations===&lt;br /&gt;
As interesting and problematic as death, marriage, and baptism dates are, each event also, for genealogical purposes, contains a location which it is important to capture.&lt;br /&gt;
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In general it is:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Event (Birth, Baptism (Christening), Marriage (n of these), Death)&lt;br /&gt;
** Date&lt;br /&gt;
** Location&lt;br /&gt;
** Source (n sources for each event).&lt;br /&gt;
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These things are very difficult to encode in an hcard.   I did it on my genealogy website by coding&lt;br /&gt;
x-birth-location, x-marriage-date, x-marriage-location, x-death-date, and x-death-location, but this, i am confident is NOT the correct way to do this.&lt;br /&gt;
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==See also==&lt;br /&gt;
{{genealogy-related-pages}}&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;RobSalzman: /* In the wild */&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;=Genealogy Examples=&lt;br /&gt;
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== In the wild ==&lt;br /&gt;
*e-familytree.net [http://www.e-familytree.net/F0/F335.htm] - 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&lt;br /&gt;
*The Dring tree [http://www.sussexbarn.com/dring/web/dring/pafg01.htm] for an interesting family tree website.	 &lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.comp.utas.edu.au/users/rsmith/levett/wc01/wc01_045.html this family group] is pretty much a direct translation of a gedcom FAM structure, but with some names added to the links. It also includes back links to parents. &lt;br /&gt;
**[http://www.comp.utas.edu.au/users/rsmith/levett/ps02/ps02_361.html an individual from the same tree] This is basically an INDI record from GEDCOM. It is generated by &amp;quot;[http://www.leisterpro.com/ Reunion for Macintosh]&amp;quot;. &lt;br /&gt;
*[http://jay.askren.net/Projects/SemWeb/FamilyTrees/AbrahamLincoln.html Family tree of Abraham Lincoln].&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill Winston Churchill in Wikipedia]. Note unstructured genealogy in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill#Early_life 'early life' section].&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://arborvita.free.fr/Kennedy/F1.html Kennedy family] (built by [http://arborvita.free.fr/ Arbor Vita]).&lt;br /&gt;
**Page per couple.&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://changelog.ca/topic/Helen%20Elizabeth%20Kerr Helen Elizabeth Kerr]&lt;br /&gt;
**Unstructured&lt;br /&gt;
*West Midland Bird Club - Norris&lt;br /&gt;
**[http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/club/press/Indie2005-04-08.htm 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]&lt;br /&gt;
**[http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/club/press/bn-31-9.htm prose reference to his father-in-law]&lt;br /&gt;
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For additional examples of related information, see [[gender-examples]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==See also==&lt;br /&gt;
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{{genealogy-related-pages}}&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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