Family descendancy list generator

• Web app (live)
• Download code (zip, HTML/CSS/JavaScript)

About the code

It’s rough, unpolished, unprofessional hobby code. (I haven’t yet taken the time to clean it up. Or add tests. Or make it configurable beyond my needs.)

The zip has a README with basic instructions on installation and usage.

What it looks like

Syntax

• You can set the following optional fields at the beginning:
  • title — page title, won’t show any if empty
  • date — date modified, won’t show any if empty
  • section — section, won’t show any if empty
  • basegen — the base generation to use (useful when doing these kinds of lists over several generations); the default is 1
• Use two spaces for indentation
• For each person in the descendancy list, use - to indicate a child and + to indicate a spouse
  • A person can have multiple spouses
  • The syntax for a person line is name followed by a pipe-delimited list of events/properties (and these are freeform text, so you can put whatever you want in them)
• You can add comments by putting # at the beginning of a line
• To put a “Continued on the next page…” marker that breaks to the next page, use - @continued
• To put a link note to another section, use > followed by whatever text you want it to say

Related blog posts

• #family-descendancy

Changelog

• 0.1 (13 Jul 2024): Initial release