Individual's Social, Family, and Historical Relationships Program (SFHR)
By Duane Bristow - November 1994 - Version 1.0
SFHR is an expanded and more relevant computer program than standard
genealogy programs. It emphasizes relationships of the individual,
social, family, and historical, rather than family trees. Five
generation family trees are, however, a subset of this program.
Planned but not implemented are expansion of the SFHR database
to include, for each individual, medical and financial databases
as well as DNA mapping significant markers. The medical
database would include dates and places of medical diagnoses and
procedures. The financial database would include dates,
amounts, vendors, and descriptions of all financial transactions
affecting the individual's net worth. This would enable a
personal history to include medical conditions and net worth
changes at each time period of a person's life. It also would
enable cross references of medical, social, financial and DNA
relationships among individuals. Also planned is UPD -
Universal Person Database Index - to find the same person in
different databases.
Reports on individuals and groups include history reports, data sheets,
and narrative reports. Global history reports are also available.
The system includes consistency checks, global text searches, research
reports, GEDCOM import & export and html export.
Includes space for:
Family - Great Grandparents Technological progress in:
Grandparents Transportation
Great Uncles & Aunts Communications
1st cousins once removed Food Preparation
2nd cousins Entertainment
Parents Health Care
Adoptive parents News
Uncles & Aunts War Making
1st cousins Navigation
1st cousins once removed Business Computation
Siblings Construction
Nieces & Nephews Payments
Great Nieces & Nephews & up to 19 others
Individual
Spouses History - Sports
Children Politics
Grandchildren War
Great Grandchildren States admission
Social Relations - Lovers Countries created
Friends Inventions & technology
Acquaintances Deaths
Coworkers Space
Business Associates Arts
Clients & Customers America
Professionals England
Tradesmen China
Politicians Africa
& up to 21 others & up to 17 others
And on each individual person:
Full name, sex, birth and death date, and profession
Place of birth, death, and interment
Family and social relations
Links to pictures and sound as well as documents, videos
and application programs
Education
Physical characteristics and contact data
Life history including dates, places, and incidents such as:
Places of residence
Churches and schools attended
Work history & military service
Health & illnesses
Any other significant events
Custom fields and flags
And for each item above, notes, sources, research notes & documents
The program allows for 5 custom fields and 15 custom flags.
A custom field can be described by the user and allows text entry up to 160
characters. For instance I have defined custom field 1 as email address.
A custom flag allows one number or letter entry.
These would be as defined by the user.
Examples might include such things as:
political party R,D,I for example
church affiliation C,P,B,H,J for example
hair color 1,2,3,4,5 for example
physical affliction
highest education level reached
or any other.
The program also allows the user to set one person's record as
the primary record and then to set relationship levels to that person
for all other people in the database. A relationship level includes
a number showing degrees of separation from the primary individual
and a letter showing types of relationship.
The primary individual is relationship level 1
Directly connected to him are his father and mother
his spouse and other social relations and his
children. These are level 2.
People directly connected to them are level 3.
Thus a sibling is level 3 because a sibling is
connected to the primary through common parents.
There are five types of relationship.
A - direct ancestor
D - direct descendent
S - spousal relationships including spouses
and people related to them.
F - friends or social relationships including
people related to them.
R - other relatives which primarily means
siblings, aunts, uncles and cousins
Creation of web pages by the program can be limited to those individuals
with specified types of relationships and/or up to a specific level.
Last revised 05/10/10.