genealogy or pedigree is for domestic animals family history and social networking is where it is all going on your most vital task is to record the memories of the living , including your own, eg names, dates and places of photographs before they are lost forever Hugh W JD <jd4x4@ wrote: > singhals <singhals@erols.com> wrote in > news:woCdnRKY5oEFNv_anZ2dnUVZ_vmlnZ2d@rcn.net: > > <snip> > >>>(Feel free to ignore me, I'm new here.) :-) >> >>We can tell. ;) >> > > > What else besides my admission gave it away? :-) > > >>However -- if I'm recording bits of evidence about everyone >>in a community, I'm writing a community history, NOT a >>family genealogy. If I'm writing in the abstract about one >>family's interactions with another, it's sociology not >>genealogy. If I'm writing about how the Mingo interacted >>with the Swedes, it's anthropology, not genealogy. >> >> > > Yes..exactly. But they all use "individuals" (with attributes) and > another element you're calling "evidence" (with attributes), but > differing criteria used to "connect" either the individual elements or > the other elements depending on the goal. So now we have a rough schema > with two elements that applies to all of the above and allows sharing of > common data. > > Now, we just need to define some subset elements that help make use of > any extra work that we agree is desireable, and makes the least re- > classification work for all of us. At some point, we will need to stop > and the schemas will depart from each other, because clearly most > genealogists don't need the expanded subsets that sociologists or > anthropologists want, but at least up to a point we can share common data > and discard what we don't want. Then, it becomes a question of who has > the schema which best fits my use, or otherwise benefits me to share data > with. > > And, an anthropologist can ignore an element called an individual and > have two elements (Swedes and Mingos) that genealogists will remap as two > "indivdual" elements. If we like we can use the fact that they have been > classified by an anthropologist as two distintions by adding the info as > an (insert appropriate label here) attribute of our "individual" element. > >>Cheryl >> >> >> >> -- For genealogy and help with family and local history in Bristol and district http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Brycgstow/ http://snaps4.blogspot.com/ photographs and walks GENEALOGE http://hughw36.blogspot.com/ MAIN BLOG

Hugh Watkins wrote: > genealogy or pedigree is for domestic animals > Be fair, Hugh. Genealogy is still in the title of the newsgroup! -- Ian Hotmail is for spammers. Real mail address is igoddard at nildram co uk

Hugh Watkins <hugh.watkins@gmail.com> wrote in news:5shj2oF19lp72U1@mid.individual.net: > genealogy or pedigree is for domestic animals > > > family history and social networking is where it is all going on > your most vital task is to record the memories of the living , > including your own, eg names, dates and places of photographs before > they are lost forever > > Hugh W > > Interesting info. I draw the conclusion that important elements to you are <people> <names> <dates> <places> <photographs> <memories>. I have info that I classify using the same labels. :-)