Build your family tree app.
Build a family tree with source references, uncertain relationships and correction notes.
How to build your family tree app
Describe the job
Build a family tree with source references, uncertain relationships and correction notes.
Review the first version
Choose how the family researcher records the person alias and how the source reviewer reviews the next step.
Refine the views
Ask First to adjust the fields and views for the people who will use the app.
Test before sharing
Walk through the process with a sample record and check who owns the next action.
A family tree app example
Two sources give different parent relationships for one fictional person.
Family tree app example
- Record
- Family tree app · 01
- Owner
- Family researcher
Current stage · Family researcher
Open the person alias
Two sources give different parent relationships for one fictional person.
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Open the person alias
Two sources give different parent relationships for one fictional person.
- Record:
- Family tree app · 01
- Owner:
- Family researcher
Review the correction
Preserve both as uncertain until a contributor reviews them.
- Stage:
- Review pending
- Owner:
- Source reviewer
Keep an uncertain relationship labelled
Keep an uncertain relationship labelled until its source is reviewed.
- Next action:
- Keep an uncertain relationship labelled until its source is reviewed.
- Owner:
- Tree owner
What to include in your family tree app
Keep the person alias in context
Keep person alias, relationship, source, confidence, permission and correction together so the next person can understand the request or record.
When the next step needs a decision
Two sources give different parent relationships for one fictional person. Preserve both as uncertain until a contributor reviews them.
Keep correction visible
Keep an uncertain relationship labelled until its source is reviewed.
Choose what each person needs
Give the family researcher a working view and the source reviewer a review view. Keep person alias and relationship attached to the decision as the work moves between them.
Questions about family tree app
Start with person alias, relationship, source, confidence, permission and correction. Describe who enters the information and who reviews the next step.