lineage

Family Tree Data Expression Engine

See a live demo at http://www.bengarvey.com/lineage

Running locally

You can run this locally by running python3 -m http.server 8000 from a terminal or running the following commands

npm install
npm install connect
npm install serve-static

And then every time after that running node server.js

Configuration

All configuration is done in the config.json file. This is what its keys do:

data

Points to the JSON-file containing your data. Per default, this points to the example file located at data/familyData.json.

filter

In the web view's menu bar you can filter for specific names using the provided input field. This key allows you to set an initial filter which will be active when the web view is freshly loaded.

startYear

StartYear

endYear

EndYear

speed

How many milliseconds does one year take when you hit the "Play" button? Default value is 100 which makes 10 years pass per second (100ms = 1/10th of a second).

menuDefaultOpen

If this is set to true, the menu is instantly opened when the web view is loaded. Defaults to true.

debug

This key is irrelevant to the observable behavior of lineage and only affects the logging which happens in the background.

showDead

If this is false, only people who are alive at the time of the currently active year are shown in the graphs. If it's true, everybody who has been born at this time (regardless of death date) is shown.

Notes

• For viewing large datasets, it may help to zoom out your browser
• If you lose the ui, move your mouse to the edge of the screen at the top left
• To run the demo in play mode, just press play and watch the years tick by
• To hear the music, check the music checkbox and press play
• To see the full dataset in the demo, remove all the names from the search / filter box

Upcoming features / ToDo

• Move to D3v7?