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From: "Tony" <>
Subject: Re: Need for a six degrees program
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 10:49:22 GMT
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Steve,
The program would not be hard to write, but enforcing the diarising of all
relationships however transitory then making people sharing these would be a
pre-requisite for it's being of any use. That is the hard part
Tony Melbourne Australia

"Steve Hayes" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Someone was recently asking about the need for a new genealogy program,
and a
> number of people listed features they would like to see in their
wish-lists -
> mainly for recording non-genealogical relationships other than in notes.
>
> May I suggest that instead of developing yet another genealogy program,
since
> there are already more than enough of those, someone devise a "six
degrees"
> program. This is where the real need seems to be.
>
> This is based on the proposition that everyone on earth is no more than
six
> degrees of relationship away from anyone else. In other words, my wife's
> cousin's boss's dog's mother's owner's best friend's daughter knows me.
>
> There was once a web site that worked on this principle. It was
> www.sixdegrees.com. It was quite interesting while it lasted, but it
folded.
>
> It seems that many people feel the limitation of genealogy programs only
> allowing one to enter two parents, and find the constraints of biology too
> restricting.
>
> But what about having a different kind of program, that would allow one to
> enter people in all kinds of relationships, which could show the kind of
> relationship and the degree of importance?
>
> So you could have seven parents, if you wanted to.
>
> You could enter a person as a biological father, a step father, a
spiritual
> father, a godfather, an adoptive father and so on, rating the importance
of
> each relationship on a scale of 1-10, and the closeness of each
relationship
> on a scale of 1-10. So your biological father might get a 2, your adoptive
> father 7, and your adoptive stepfather 9.
>
> You could be linked to another person by any number of differenk kinds of
> relationships - biological (parent, child, sibling etc), sexual (spouse,
> lover, one-night-stand etc), friendship (platonic, romantic etc),
adoptive,
> business, etc.
>
> You could put people in the "elder" category (patents, teachers, gurus,
> mentors, tutors, guardians, bosses, coach, sports hero, sugar daddy,
shrink
> etc) or in the younger category (child, nephew, niece, catamite,
secretary,
> etc) or in the peer category (sibling, cousin, colleague, friend, partner,
> collaborator, pen friend, client, customer etc).
>
> Such a program should be able to import data from my genealogy program, my
> address book, and who knows what else, to save from having to retype.
>
> Is there anyone who feels up to writing such a program?
>
>
>
>
>
> Steve Hayes
> http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/stevesig.htm
>


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