Store family trees in plain text and visualize them in your browser
Project description
pedigree takes a [yaml][] file like that in examples/example.yaml ([source][]) and outputs a few messy visualizations that do not favor patriliny over matriliny. See examples/ for example output.
 
Example:
If you’re in a hurry to play,
pedigree -y examples/example.yaml
Outputs:
.html file: a [d3][] visualization that can be opened in a web browser
.svg file: a “Sugiyama style” tree that can be opened in a web browser
.dot file: the [dot][] file used to generate the .svg file
Installation:
You must first install [graphviz][dot] via
sudo apt-get install [graphviz][dot]
Then,
pip install pedigree
pedigree –help will tell you your options.
Caveats:
Don’t put all your genealogical data in one text file that you manipulate via a python script written by some idiot on the internet. At least make copies of the one text file.
This can only recognize the relations x is the mother of y, x is the father of y, and x is the spouse of y. It has no concept of siblings or partial siblings.
The .yaml file depends on every name to be unique, so you may need names like John Smith (2) and John Smith (1).
[yaml]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML [d3]: http://d3js.org/ [dot]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphviz [source]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Flintstones_family_tree
