Genealogy

This page allows you to navigate throughout the whole family tree.
The tree is still by far incomplete, because the fill-in operation takes lots of time...

To simplify the graphical presentation, I've chosen a bottom-to-top tree. This means that if you choose a person, you will get his parents, and the parents of their parents, and so on.
The tree becomes fully binary (every column has two times more rows that the preceeding one). It won't have been the same with a "decending" tree (one hasen't always two children...)

To get to the program, just click here: interactive genealogy

For those who are interrested in computer programmation, I wrote this family tree program in PERL, a scripting language that has a C-like syntax. I use a "MySQL" database that is installed on the server.

The database contains only one table that contains data about people: name, first names, birth and death dates and places, and links to his/her father and mother

When you select someone in the list, the program looks recursively for his parents, and the parents of them... until it reaches the search specified depth
Then it just formats this data, and prints it to the screen.