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Store family trees in plain text and visualize them in your browser

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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.

![Screenshot 1](media/screenshot1.png) ![Screenshot 2](media/screenshot2.png)

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

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