From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1ebbccbc114d641e,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-22 15:07:55 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!falcon.america.net!eagle.america.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BD498DF.27E8B66C@otelco.net> From: Larry Hazel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,x-ns11F8K63r3NhQ,x-ns2r2e09OnmPe2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Genealogy Software Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 17:08:31 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.0.32.230 X-Trace: eagle.america.net 1003788474 66.0.32.230 (Mon, 22 Oct 2001 18:07:54 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 18:07:54 EDT Organization: 24hoursupport.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15050 Date: 2001-10-22T17:08:31-05:00 List-Id: Does anyone know of any genealogy software written in Ada? With source available? I thought I might attempt to write some. Any suggestions for data representation will be appreciated. I haven't done much Ada 95, but a lot of Ada 83. Will need some way to represent dates going back hundreds of years (maybe just a fixed length string since some of them will be of the form "ca. 1784"). Will need a person object (maybe abstract with separate child types for male and female). Will link to other person objects which represent spouses, children, and probably backward to parents. An event object (marriage, birth, death, buying or selling property, ...). Bibliographical text will also be needed. Storage of scanned pictures and documents. Maybe this is too complicated for a 1 man home project. Larry