Thank you to everyone who has posted on this thread. Yes you are correct James, we have a paper archive plus census information and some brilliant researchers who are feeding info about their own family trees into the website we have opened for the village history.
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What we are hoping to create is a database that displays this information in a 'family tree' type format that is easily accessible by our users. This is a very old village and there are many family links that we are discovering, so we need to be able to link them so that they are searchable by names, dates and addresses. Wiki tree sounds interesting. What we don't want to do is reinvent the wheel, if there is something out there that you guys have already tested.
Many thanks Yvonne
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> On 17 Apr 2019, at 11:38, James Morley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hi Yvonne
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> I'm working on the assumption that you already have a system to gather the information and store it along with associated metadata. So what you're after is a way to link these assets to named, unique (i.e. disambiguated) individuals and to organise those into relationships? From my experience working with Lives of the First World War and also my own A Street Near You site (neither of which actually solved this problem, as yet!) I would definitely suggest trying to link into - and enrich and extend - an open, external resource like WikiTree.
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> Whilst on the face of it the commercial sites like Ancestry and Find My Past offer a lot of this functionality, I would be very cautious going down this route. I worked on the Lives of the First World War project and whilst actually gathering some incredible data and having huge potential, at the end of the project the commercial third party didn't want to continue as it wasn't commercially viable (and there was no project money to pay them to) so all the data has had to be extracted and will go into a static version of the site with no further contributions.
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> If you don't have a system for gathering the core assets, I wonder if OrangeLeaf's Recording Remembrance tool [1] gets close and offer the potential to extend? I'm guessing they must have already tackled the issue of named, unique individuals. A good example of a site built using this is Surrey in the Great War [2] which I have been able to link in with my A Street Near You site based on the way they have structured 'linked' data (in the widest sense) e.g. to the Lives of the First World War and CWGC sites. This in effect would also give the capacity to add links to WikiTree and through that build the sort of family tree you'd be after (though the actual linking and display would probably need a bit of further development). James Grimster can no doubt tell you more.
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> Best,
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> James
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> 1. https://www.recordingremembrance.org.uk/about and https://www.orangeleaf.com/2014/08/notes-on-building-recording-remembrance/
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> 2. https://www.surreyinthegreatwar.org.uk/
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>> On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 at 16:24, Yvonne Hellin-Hobbs <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Hi everyone, here at Bishopsteignton Heritage we are receiving a great deal of family history material, which cross references with lots of other family info. We want to construct a Family Tree type database that is easily searchable and displayed in a format that is easily accessible. Does anyone know of any such databases already in existence, to save us reinventing the wheel?
>> Thanks Yvonne
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