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  1. Modeling Family Relations

    June 26 2008

    Humans are really complicated beings. Relations between humans are even more complicated...

    A while ago I've written an article about my small genealogy project. After quite fast implementation of data gathering tools (thanks to django admin panel) I got a little stuck with trying to visualize family tree.

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  2. Genealogy in the Time of Web 2.0

    May 16 2008

    In every family there is such a time when someone starts to looking into family roots. It seems that it's that time for my family, as my father created lots of paper sheets with quite random pack of names and lines joining them.

    He asked:

    Bartek, maybe you will write some app to organize this thing, keep it all together? In few months I'll forget who is who on this papers.

    What could I answer?

    Yeay! Why not! Seems like fun.

    But, as once I was told that good programmer is a lazy programmer. So as a lazy programmer I started with googling some genealogy software and on-line family trees :)

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