Wikipedia:WikiProject Genealogy

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The WikiProject for Genealogy is a place for standardizing genealogical tables within Wikipedia and for enhancing genealogical knowledge within articles. While Wikipedia is not and never was intended as a genealogical tool, that does not mean that it cannot be. Nearly all royalty pages list a brief ancestry as well as a list of spouses and issue. This practice should be more widespread, outside the bounds of simple aristocracy, and into the everyday person.

1 Project goals
2 Proposed standardized form
3 Members
4 Cross-references
5 Partner projects

[edit] Project goals

Expand ancestral tables to every day people
Choose a standard form for ancestry tables
Choose a standard form for marriages and issue
Decide on proper placement of charts within articles

[edit] Proposed standardized form

The proposed standardized form incorporates the present need to identify noble houses and family names with a need to be brief in ancestral trees. Unlike many current forms, it does not include unnecessary descriptors such as grandfather and great grandmother, but it does allow for royal house names and mother and father titles. Most importantly, it is derived from CSS templates instead of many lines of unnecessary code. The template is available at {{s-anc}} although it requires {{s-fam}} and {{end}} or {{s-ref}} to function properly. In the end, it appears as this when completed:

Family information
Grandfather House of Grandfather's House	Father King of Something	Page Name or Custom name
Grandmother House of Grandmother's House	Father King of Something
Grandfather House of Grandfather's House	Mother Queen of Something
Grandmother House of Grandmother's House	Mother Queen of Something
Notes and references
1. Cite your sources here

[edit] Members

The following are registered members of this wikiproject:

Darius von Whaleyland – Currently attempting to resurrect the project and standardize genealogical boxes currently in use at Wikipedia. Also the founder of Wikipedia:WikiProject Succession Box Standardization and a frequenter to any royalty page.