New way for managment of ancestries data

Question

Hello,

I created another solution starting with the oldest BMS acts and continuing to newer acts. That is to say analyzing in the direction of time, while current solutions go in the opposite direction of time.

With this new solution, when we analyze a child's birth certificate, the parents' data are surely already recorded in the same city.

For example, to establish my genealogy, my brother and I spent 20 years to identify everything. However, it only took me 5 years to identify the genealogy of my childhood village, for the years 1569-1850, going in the direction of time!

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Just to be sure I understand correctly. You are suggesting a start in the past?

Where a child's birth was recorded varies widely depending on the country in which they were born.

Many countries did not record births until the late 1800s, some not until the 1900s.

Baptisms or naming ceremonies were recorded in many countries but not all. These are religious records not civic or government records.  

Baptisms did not always happen in the village or town where the child was born.

Marriages happen in multiple places, they often took place in the location where the bride was living but the location can be a long distance from where the bride or the groom were born.

Burials are often in the place where the person was living at the time of their death. Yes there are occasions when the body is transported to another location for burial because of a family connection to a particular cemetery or location.

Can you provide an example of working from the past to the future and possible benefits.

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I agree that in the past, events were registered differently.

In my proposal, I use most often registers of same fashion, but anyhow the data are available, the goal is to gather these data in a common standard database.

Have a look in the model I created there :

https://www.hypergen.org/

and here all the data of a french city that I done in 5 years :

https://gerzat.fr/?lng=en

Answer 1

Thank you for sharing this. It's interesting. And your work on Gerzat looks very interesting and useful!

One reason working backwards is sometimes easier is that later records sometimes have clues about earlier events, while earlier events (of course) can't record what will happen in the future. For example, when I traced descendants of one pair of my great-great-grandparents, I had no record of what happened to one of their grandchildren, because she moved. I only learned what happened from someone who had worked backwards. Her death record (from Buffalo, New York) reports her birthplace (in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and parents, but working forwards from the past I doubt I would ever have found her.

That makes me wonder whether different methods might be useful for different purposes. Do you think working forwards would have been as effective for tracing your genealogy? Might working forwards be (generally) better for location studies, and working backwards (generally) better for tracing a specific family? I'm curious what your experience suggests.

Harry

Comments

Hello,

Thank you for your comment.

The method that I propose is not intended to be used to establish one's own genealogy. It is for a group of volunteers to establish the genealogies of all the inhabitants of a city.

Then we can create a website for that city, to show all the people who have lived in that city.

To go further, the group of volunteers will add the data of this city to the “Hypergen” databases.

It is with Hypergen that you can search for parents or children who are not in your city but that you can find people in other cities with the first and last name you are looking for.

Bye