Familypedia talk:Categories

Pages for "couple plus children"
Recent discussions have hinted at the desirability of having a page for a couple instead of an individual, so that the children need to be listed only once. No problem if each individual had no other partner, but probably a problem if one did.

Looking at part of a gedcom recently, I was again struck by the thought that we could have categories for families, corresponding with the unit in a gedcom. Category name to be the parents' names, probably with the father first for ease of recognition. Each "child" page and each of the parents' pages to be in the category, if they have separate pages (eg alone or with another partner). Software might be able to create pages for the children automatically as soon as they are listed on a standard "family category" page.

Worth talking about?

Do we make that category a subcategory of each category into which either parent comes? Adoptive families could be included in the mix.

Robin Patterson 05:40, 19 September 2006 (UTC)