Exploring Obsidian with Genealogy, family trees

[Dor]

@donblanco

The system I copied above, as I currently use it, produces much, MUCH less complex numbers.

The ‘complexity’ in my system is more apparent than real. It’s a reading system not a numbering system as such. From a numbering point of view there’s huge redundancy.

@Dor

04-012 (XFMM)/04-013 (XFMF); 03-Sara (xxF); Sara’s daughter would be 04-012 (XFMM)/04-013 (XFMF); 02-Linda:03-Sara (xxFF)

If I break it down, 012=XFMM : they’re just different numbering systems pointing to exactly the same position on a tree. The 04 is redundant too - it just shows generational distance - as the information is included in the other numbers.
From a numbering point of view it could just be written as 12.
The extra 13 just indicates the other common ancestor.
When reading, I choose which element to look at depending on my interest at the time.

Coming forward is different because it relates to a person, not a position in a tree. The tree has no required elements coming forward.
So it’s about relationships, not tree positions. And descriptive rather than numberical.
Generation number is the same.
The common ancestors are given, using both systems.
But only atree/binary ahnentafel is used coming forward because it describes a relational path and there are no fixed elements for a strict numbering system to be applied to.
The xx simply indicates two common ancestors.
The name could be a group of names, a place, a date of birth - whatever I need to instantly know the person.

It’s a system designed to be read rather than apportion UIDs.
It works for me, fits comfortably into a plaintext research system.
It doesn’t interface with the other systems out there. I have little interest in importing GEDCOMS - or even exporting them. Most trees I have seen contain too many errors and lack evidence. From the little I have seen, most researchers have their own systems to support their investigations.

@donblanco

For instance, I am 1.0, my father is 2.0, his father is 4.0, etc. My main concern, which would apply to most such systems, is how one could easily change said system. What good is it if I am ‘1.0’ to, say, a distant cousin who takes up the same tree. They would want to be 1.0 themselves. How would they adjust such a system if they had a gedcom export?

The change/conversion required ought to be fairly easily scriptable.
I’m afraid that I have, consciously, forgotten everything I once knew about gedcom.

@donblanco

the main goal of a numbering system is to more easily see my direct line, or some other particular surname line.

I can understand that. In some ways I’m more interested in direct female lines - it’s the only line where every member of the current generation has inherited the same DNA from their ancestors. Y chromosome inherited only by males.