Family tree project - convert sub-graph to list

Sep 1, 2019
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When I started to create the family tree project I chose the dTree visualizing library. To visualize a family tree with the dTree you have to provide the data in a hierarchical format:

Parent1:
    Marriage:
        Parent2
    Childs...
        Child1
        Child2
            Marriage:
                PersonX
            Childs:
                ...
        ...

With this data format, it’s not possible to save multiple family trees. Also, it’s only possible to render one parent history with the dTree library (I think the cause is graph overlapping).

But I wanted to have the possibility to save multiple family trees (for Parent1 and Parent2) in one data structure. The rendering of multiple family trees at one time wasn’t important to me.

So I created a (graph) data structure that can be converted to the necessary dTree format.

Example graph data structure:

{
  "persons": [
    {
      "id": 0,
      "name": "Parent1",
      "gender": "man"
    },
    {
      "id": 1,
      "name": "Parent2",
      "gender": "woman"
    },
    {
      "id": 2,
      "name": "Child1",
      "gender": "woman"
    },
    {
      "id": 3,
      "name": "Child2",
      "gender": "man"
    }
  ],
  "connections": [
    {
      "partner1Id": 0,
      "partner2Id": 1,
      "childrenIds": [2, 3]
    }
  ]
}

With this approach it was possible to have multiple family trees in one data structure and extract the wanted family tree.

How to generate the sub graph

The flow of the algorithm is:

select a node

Select a start node in the family graph

and follow the Parent A until there is no Parent A.

Follow from the start node the parent a until there is no parent a. This is the new root node.

This is the root node from which a new subgraph is created (partner and children).

The new sub graph is generated by selecting the partner of the current node and traversing the children

This subgraph gets transformed to a compatible dTree hierarchy.

Done 🚀

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