On May 11, 5:44 pm, Ian Goddard <[email protected]> wrote: > I think your requirements ought to be met by all genealogical S/W (give > or take choice of platform).  I doubt they're met by any. Well, I'm pleased you don't think my requirements are unreasonable. I can't say I'm surprised that you don't think any existing software meets them, as that was the conclusion I was coming to, too. I see a lot of evenings writing code in my future :-/ The Gentech data model seems a pretty good starting point, to me. It's shame it seems to have spent the last decade languishing unloved and, so far as I can see, unimplemented. Maybe I'm about to discover why. Richard

Richard Smith wrote: > The Gentech data model seems a pretty good starting point, to me. I think I'd like to see that revisited with OO in mind. For instance there are a lot of different naming systems (including some which evolved out of others such as descriptive, patronymic or topographical epithets evolving into surnames in medieval England). You could then specify an attribute as a base class of "Name" but in any given case it would be instantiated as a sub-class appropriate to the naming system in use. -- Ian The Hotmail address is my spam-bin. Real mail address is iang at austonley org uk

On Wed, 11 May 2011 13:04:35 -0700 (PDT), Richard Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >On May 11, 5:44 pm, Ian Goddard <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think your requirements ought to be met by all genealogical S/W (give >> or take choice of platform).  I doubt they're met by any. > >Well, I'm pleased you don't think my requirements are unreasonable. I >can't say I'm surprised that you don't think any existing software >meets them, as that was the conclusion I was coming to, too. I see a >lot of evenings writing code in my future :-/ The Gentech data model >seems a pretty good starting point, to me. It's shame it seems to >have spent the last decade languishing unloved and, so far as I can >see, unimplemented. Maybe I'm about to discover why. I've been looking for/pleading for such a program for many years. I produced a pattern database with relevant tables in MS Access, for others to look at and comment, in the hope that someone would be able to produce an application that would tie it all together, but no such luck. The sample database is at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gensoft/ -- Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Web: http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/stevesig.htm Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk