sean.clarke(a)guardian.co.uk wrote:
hello
I've long wished there were a genealogical database of European monarchs
etc, where for instance Charlemagne exists as an entry with his wives
listed in one column, his sons in another, his daughters in another, his
known mistresses in another and his mother and father in two more.
as it grew (wikistyle) you could then see things like: all male descendants
of Charlemagne (or whoever) or choose to display the information in all
sorts of ways.
but I don't know a) how to do it or b) if wikipedia is the right place for
it
any thoughts?
See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_II%2C_Holy_Roman_Emperor for
one possible solution.
Frederick was very active in the cause of ensuring that he had
descendants. It is quite easy to show parents and grandparents in
ascendence. The spouses and children are also easily placed, but
descending even one more generation gets complicated.
The Frederick II page was based on
http://faui8l.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/cgi-bin/stoyan/l1/LANG=engl/INDEX=…
. There's a lot of interesting material on this site but, it takes a
while to understand how to navigate it. The "8" link at the top of an
individual page will shoe three levels of ascendancy.
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