Families

Family records compose relationships (parents, children) that makeup a family.

The families record is used to record marriages, unions, adoptions or whatever event that caused two people becoming the parents of a child. There is no limitation of the number of parents that can be in a family. However keep in mind that most software products assume only two. If a person participated in more than one family union, then they should appear in more than one families record. No assumptions should be made as to the sex/gender of the parents.

The preferred order of the children pointers within a families structure is chronological by birth.

Note that person IN003 in the example below is referenced in another repo in a Linked Data fashion.

"families": {
    "id":"FM001",
    "parents": [
        { "ref": "IN001" },
        { "ref": "IN002" }
    ],
    },
    "children": [
        {
            "ref": "IN003",
            "relType": {
                "type": "adopted",
                "id": "IN001"
            }
        },
        { "ref": "http://williamsfamily.example.com/tree/IN003" }
    ],
    "basedOn": {
        "link": [
            {
                "target":"EventRec",
                "ref":"EV001"
            },
            {
                "target":"EventRec",
                "ref":"EV002"
            }
        ],
        "note":"…"
    },
    "externalID": [
        {
            "type": "AFN",
            "id": "4S3469Q"
        },
        {
            "type": "submitter",
            "id": "F8945"
        }
    ],
    "note": "…",
    "evidence": {
        "citation": {

        }
    },
    "enrichment": {
        "citation": {
            "link": {
                "target": "SourceRec",
                "ref": "SR002"
            },
            "caption": "We Attend the Kunzle Family Reunion",
            "whereInSource": "5 min, 15 sec into the video, to 10 min, 30 sec.",
            "note": "Our family is featured about 5 minutes into the video."
        }
    },
    "changed": [
        {
            "date": "23 APR 1976",
            "time": "13:25:12",
            "note": "Record created"
        },
        {
            "date": "…",
            "time": "…",
            "contact": {
                "link": {
                    "target": "ContactRec",
                    "ref": "…"
                }
            },
            "note": "Adopted child added"
        }
    ]
}