![]() ![]() The other characters are generally known as Friends, Associates, and Neighbors (or the FAN club). The context in a history has to cover developments in technology and life to show the external events that affect everyone. They lack two important ingredients to a history: context, and (supporting) characters. HOWEVER, the traditional genealogy tools are poorly suited to constructing stories or narratives for a family history. I think it is too complex to just try and convert all of that data to Obsidian notes. Over that time I have accumulated data on several thousand profiles for people in the tree, some of them going back a thousand years. Hello I have been doing genealogy on traditional genealogy tools such as Family Tree Maker and Roots Magic for several years. ![]() Would love to chat if anyone is is considering or trying this. Parents and kids create a satisfying starlike pattern. I use the #Tree tag as a filter in the graph to see the “Family Tree”. I’ve created a template for the daily notes which opens with the following tags that I fill in for new people added. Images folder: the more important and representative family photos.I’m thinking of sharing some “The significance of this place to our family” stories with other family members. Places folder: each place gets its own note with compilation of all the family members and notable events that took place there.My thought is that I could look at any month-day and look at family from a “This day in history” kind of thing Dates folder: each date of significance has its own note - I’m linking back to dates which are only M-D.Person folder: each person has their own note with tags used for each piece of data.So far this structure has been working well but I anticipate future adjustments: I’m using back links to connect the people and tags for each of the data categories. ![]() I have never been happy with the genealogy software so I’m exploring Obsidian for this. ![]()
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