Yes sounds like fun! Thanks Richard, great idea. I guess there should be fields for country or origin, dates of movements, births, deaths (what you show above works for base-lining), time-lines, employment/careers, schools. You could go crazy with so many things but better keep it somewhat standard to start and build on it later. As long as the table structure is sound adding fields, forms and reports will be a snap.
I added a "Life Events" table so that you can track all major life events here: birth, dead, marriages, moving, name changes, etc. You could easily add education, jobs, etc.
I have done quite a lot developing a database but I got bogged down thinking about multiple marriages and the subsequent step children and step parents. I also intended to include some logic to automatically work out cousin relationships. The project is currently on hold but you may spur me into continuing with it.
Chris, one of my ideas on my "for future development" if there is enough interest is a form where you can pick a person and show ALL of the interpersonal relationships this guy has with everyone else. Most relationships can be calculated: parents, children, grandparents, uncles/aunts, even cousins. Step children are tough, but with marriages as a "life event" that can be calculated too. It won't be easy, but it's possible.
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