family

Overview
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The famiy module allows you to display family trees on your Drupal website.

Users of your website can be given ownership of banners, and be allowed to
modify certain settings and view statistics.

Requirements
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Drupal 4.7.x

Features
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   * Import from GEDCOM files
   * Editing capabilities for individual data (currently not for family relationships)
   * Automated privacy system to protect privacy of living people. It estimates birth dates of people, based
     on their relatives, to decide which records should be protected.
     Role based access control to public / private records.
   * Individual nodes showing full information on individual: Name, Birth/Death dates and places, parents, spouses, children
   * Full linking to other individuals
   * Biography may be added to each individual
   * Listing of all individuals

Installation
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Set mySQL tables, using family.mysql
Install files in modules folder and enable it in admin/modules.
Set access in admin/access control
Import GEDCOM file from your favorite genealogy software (admin/family/import).
If you want privacy, run auto privacy algorithm (admin/family/privacy). It is recommended to check manually the results.


Bugs and Suggestions
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 - Family website: http://family.jonasfamily.org
 - Maintainer:  Amnon Jonas

Planned features (please tell us what is useful to you)
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 - Full online editing capability
 - Location nodes
 - Source nodes (file/book,document,personal evidence, etc.)
 - Other nodes, based on GEDCOM record types: Header, Multimedia, Repository, Submitter.
 - Indexes - Sorted names, surnames, places
 - Multiple trees
 - Generating reports/trees.
 - Revisions control - users add or change data, while admin/editor can approve or deny changes.
 - GEDCOM import merge - update data from GEDCOM file to current database
 - GEDCOM export
 - Automatic names linking filter - link names in non family nodes to the individual page.
 - Advanced search (e.g. born in Atlantis, bet. 3000 to 4000 b.c.)
 - statistics (e.g. mean lifespan, number of individuals,...)
 - events calendar (birthdays, events anniversaries)
 - relationship calculator (find the relationship of x to y)
 - Link to individuals on other family tree websites
 - Check for errors
 - Dates conversion (Gregorian, Hebrew, Muslim,...)