On 05-25-2011 04:25, Tom Wetmore wrote: > Given that a genealogical application does not support evidence it seems like It's still not a given to me. > askSam is almost ideal as the "second program" to handle evidence. > > I would sure like those askSam capabilities built into my genealogy app so I > didn't have to move back and forth between two program. I might be > naive, but I don't think it would be difficult to add the capabilities to a > genealogy app. Every genealogy record can be viewed as a tree of > structured name/value pairs (just think of any GEDCOM, XML, or jSON The basic search in webtrees (and probably other apps) is pretty much a full text search, with advanced having specific name/value pairs. (We had to add a little code to discard hits on ID fields)) -- Wes Groleau There are two types of people in the world … http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/barrett?itemid=1157