The Knowledge Press: The Family¶
The Family draws a family as an orchard you drive through in the browser. It runs at flux-frontiers.github.io/kpress_family.
- Each family line, the people born with one surname, is a tree. Its founder is the trunk, every limb runs from a parent to a child, and each person is a tuft of leaves.
- The lines of a surname stand together in a grove, and the groves sit on ring roads around the hub.
- At the hub, the home tree is one person's whole family: their descendants are the crown, and their ancestors are the roots, seen through a glass floor over a lit pit.
You drive a lantern cart up to a tree to read its line's records, add lines to your album, search names, places and years, or ride the guided tour, which visits the groves in the order their families began.
The public site shows three families built from public GEDCOM files: The Kennedys, The Tudors and George Washington's Family. People who may be living are shown as "Living", with no dates, places or record. See Privacy and the demo families.
The orchard reads the files that genkg export-web writes from a
GenealogyKG store. How to
build a store from a GEDCOM file and export it is documented on the
GenealogyKG site.
Where to start¶
| You want to | Read |
|---|---|
| Drive the orchard for the first time | Getting started |
| Know what the trees, groves and roads mean | The orchard |
| Let the cart drive the ring for you | Driving and the tour |
| Read a person's record, or move the home tree | Reading the records |
| Find a person, a place or a year | Finding people |
| Link to one family, person or line | Finding people |
| Hear the guided tour on an iPad | Troubleshooting |
| Show your own family | Privacy and the demo families |
The source is at github.com/Flux-Frontiers/kpress_family. It started as a copy of The Knowledge Press: The Forest, which grows a library of books the same way; see PROVENANCE.md. The orchard is licensed under the Elastic License 2.0.