Visual Family Cosmos
5 days ago
- #genealogy
- #family-tree
- #data-visualization
- Interest in family history led to research through conversations, documents, and consolidation.
- Explored various visual representations of family trees, including fan charts, sun charts, traditional trees, and 3D force-directed graphs.
- Created a custom radial layout visualization to better understand family connections and lineage.
- Discovered that surnames are not definitive indicators of origins, with personal lineage tracing back to 13 unique last names.
- Learned about the Mormon Church's significant contributions to genealogy, including the GEDCOM file format and FamilySearch resources.
- Shared personal family tree and provided examples of famous individuals' family trees in PDF format.
- Compiled a list of resources for building, visualizing, and hosting family trees, including open-source and privacy-oriented tools.
- Highlighted development tools and libraries for working with GEDCOM files, including parsers, serializers, and converters.
- Mentioned experimental projects and sources of inspiration for genealogical research and visualization.