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I would love a software that did this, but without so many options, in a more freely way, a tree-view, you know. Who are the people using this? Why they need s

• wslh 12y ago
  I am one of its users. I am not using all of its options but it's very useful for professional genealogical researchers. This means people who want to record every aspect of their ancestors life (photos, records, details, etc).
• stevekemp 12y ago
  Tree-views aren't sufficient for genealogy, sadly. Cycles can and do occur. For example this classic question [1] contains an example: "The problem is that he has two children with his own daughter, and, as a result, he can't use my software because of errors." In my family past I've seen some strange things too, but nothing quite on that order. [1] - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6163683/cycles-in-family-tree-software http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6163683/cycles-in-family-...
  • gsnedders 12y ago
    The far more common case is (distant) cousins marrying. Go back two hundred years, most working class people were born in one town, married in the same, and died there, so unsurprisingly you'll come across the same people in multiple branches.
    • stevekemp 12y ago
      Indeed, and there are also interesting modern cases where two gay men might get married, and adopt a child - in that case the child has no mother. (Well obviously there is a mother in the biological sense, but it might be that the data isn't available. Instead in tracking a "family" tree you'd have two fathers.)