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From: (Steve Hayes)
Subject: Re: Need for a six degrees program
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 02:33:47 GMT
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On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 13:12:16 PST, (Everett M. Greene)
wrote:

> (Steve Hayes) writes:
>[snip]
>> I was responding to a need expressed here for a program that would record
>> non-biological relationships, such as adoption, same-sex marrages, etc, in a
>> more structured way than putting them into "notes".
>>
>> That means putting people into the database as persons, rather than just a
>> note appending them to other persons.
>>
>> My request is for that kind of approach to be widened to include friends,
>> friends of friends, friends of relations, relations of friends and other
>> relationships (boss, co-workers, teachers, godparents, marriage witnesses
>> etc).
>[snip]
>Genealogy is a subset of history. You seem to want a history
>data base which includes genealogical information, an admirable
>objective, but how practical is it?

As I said, it seems to be what a lot of people are asking for.

Numerous people have said that they want to record family history rather than
just genealogy, and so they want to include non-genealogical relationships.

Why not write a program to do that, and show the relationships?


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