fs-webcomponents / fs-pedigree

Display a FamilySearch person's pedigree

fs-pedigree

Display a FamilySearch person's pedigree.

Usage

Default display of 3 generations.

<fs-pedigree person-id="PPPP-PPP"></fs-pedigree>

Future Enhancements

• Change the number of generations
• Change the orientation: right-left, top-bottom, bottom-top
• Display descendants

fs-pedigree's Issues

Expandable

Add an option for making the pedigree expandable. I.e the user can click a + button on ancestors in the last generation to expand the pedigree for that ancestor.

Don't load the pedigree when we don't have a personId

Unable to expand the pedigree to show the ancestors of a woman with no husband

You can't expand the pedigree to show the ancestors of a woman who has no husband. This is because the pedigree is creating a group with personId set to nothing and spouseId set to the woman's ID then it issues a request to the ancestry endpoint with no person Id and it returns a 404.

Support adding new persons

When an ancestor's position is empty, show an "Add" button for adding that missing person to the tree.

This behavior would be optional and be enabled via the add-persons attribute.

Change the number of generations

Allow us to do

<fs-pedigree person-id="PPPP-PPP" generations="6"></fs-pedigree>

This would require big changes to how the layout is currently handled.

Load descendants

Optionally load descendants of the root person and allow the descendants to be browsed by opening descendants of children one generation at a time. Only allow one person per level to have their children expanded.

Reset panning when the root personId changes

Otherwise if you've panned the root group out of sight then everything disappears when you load a new pedigree.

Can we make a better layout?

Our current layout is very traditional and static. It has some weakness:

• Not expandable
• Doesn't display any information about the main person's spouses or children
• Can't display siblings
• Can't select alternate spouses or parents

One way to solve this is to show spouses and children for the main person like Ancestry does:

But you still can't see children of ancestors and it's still not expandable.

FamilySearch's landscape pedigree is the best I've seen:

It's expandable, shows spouses and children, allows for children of all couples to be shown, and allows for alternate spouses and parents to be selected. Their clever trick is grouping couples which more easily enables behaviors based on families. Should we try that?

We won't necessarily add the children dropdowns or allow for alternate spouses and parents to be selected (it requires a bit of work) but it's nice to know we could.