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Family descendancy list generator

New release: a family descendancy list generator. (The first version of one, anyway. It’s still pretty new.) It’s a web app that lets you enter a descendancy list in a text-based format like this:

https://cdn.bencrowder.net/images/projects/family-descendancy/family-descendancy-1.png

And you then get something like this when you print:

https://cdn.bencrowder.net/images/projects/family-descendancy/family-descendancy-2.png

Seven years ago I started making these types of charts in Google Docs, which worked out okay, but I got tired of fiddling with tab stops and here we are.

This marks a change from how I’ve been building genealogy chart apps, by the way. CLI scripts are all well and good, but doing it this way should hopefully be a lot easier for people to use.