Show All Family

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Caution Show All Family combines four mods: Show_End_of_Lines, Show_Stepparents, Other_Spouses and Show_Children_Spouses. You must uninstall them all first. Caution



Ambox notice.png The latest version of this mod uses the guidelines for TNG v12+ cust_text.php files. If you are using TNGv12+, and any cust_text.php file in this mod is marked with a Bad Target error, you need to update your cust_text.php files before you can install this mod. [Show instructions]

If you upgraded to TNGv12+, and did not update your cust_text.php files as instructed in the upgrade readme script, then you must use the TNG Mod Manager to update them. To do so:

  1. Go to Mod Manager, and select its "Recommended Updates" tab.
    (If the "Recommended Updates" tab is not visible, then go to the Mod Manager Options tab, select "Display Settings", and turn on the "Recommended Updates" tab.)
  2. Click the "Update" button in the "Recommended Updates" tab.
    Installed mods do not interfere with the update, and if you already have (or think you may have) run this update, it will not hurt for you to run it again.

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Show All Family
Summary Adds end of line ancestors, spouses other spouses, children spouses, stepparents and alternative name spellings to the getperson page
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Mod Updated 28 Aug 2019
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TNG 12.0

Show All Family V12.0.0.4


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Author(s) A. S. DuPree
Homepage Show_All_Family (this page)
Mod Support TNG Community Forums
Contact Developer [1]
Latest Mod 12.0.0.4
Min TNG V 12
Max TNG V 12.1
Files modified
getperson.php
Related Mods
Add Person Siblings Row to show sibling spouses
Notes
Replaces Show_End_of_Lines, Show_Stepparents, Other_Spouses and Show_Children_Spouses. These mods are still available if you only want to do one specific thing.


COMING SHORTLY - 5 OCT 2019

Introduction

NEW - Earliest Ancestor
Show All Family now provides six family member areas to the main individual's page.

  1. Earliest Ancestor
  2. Matriarchs and Patriarchs
  3. Stepparents
  4. Other spouses of spouse
  5. Children's spouses
  6. Alternative surname spellings

1. Earliest Ancestors

This row shows the earliest ancestors of the individual. It calculates this by getting all ancestors as far back as it can and returning the last generation it finds. Hence, it may show one person or many depending on how many people you have found in that generation. [Note, the massive calculations that are necessary to find this person or people have been trimmed down as much as I can. However, if the mod detects that it may take significant time to find these ancestors, it halts and returns a button instead that will resume the calculation but with a warning about potential delay. Also, the calculations take place on an external page to avoid slowing down the loading of the individual's page]/

How come my person and the person's spouse BOTH have the same earliest ancestor?
Well, you may notice this happening and it is confusing, but before you think there is something wrong with the mod, try the little link icon to the right of the ancestor's name. I have already found two or three couples in my data that have the same earliest ancestor. Think about it, the data reflects the earliest people you have found...and the likelihood grows as you go back of any two individuals being related. This is further compounded by the limits to the research that means we have all spent more time and energy on fewer lines.

Earliest ancestors are not a thing to display to my knowledge, so I have included a help icon on the field name to try to explain. It may take some getting used to.

2. Patriarchs and Matriarchs

This row shows the male-to-male line back to the "patriarch" or first father on the father's line. And the female-to-female line back to the 'matriarch' or first mother on the mother's line. These people are useful to know at a glance for DNA research.

Sometimes the matriarchs and patriarchs are the same as the earliest ancestors. I have not attempted to hide this duplication because it is useful to know when they are the same.

Left
  • Note the blue i - that links to a help menu
  • Note the icon at the end of the names - that takes you to the relationship page showing the line between the ancestor and the person.

3-5 Spouses

These add other spouses to the parents and spouse of the individual and add all spouses to the children. The utility here is the ability to see the whole family at a glance. Not only does this help in telling stories (since one doesn't have to search, for say, the son in law) but also provides clues that are useful when trying to maximize searches through records.

There are options to change the symbols used for spouses and to put them together all on one line (default).
Show spouses for children:

Left

Other spouses of spouses

Left

Stepparents

Left

6. Alternative Spellings

Alternative spellings looks at all the spellings of the surname on the particular line of the individual and returns a small list of spellings from the database. It may find little differences (Smith and Smythe) and it may find large changes, reflecting the adoption of new surnames on the line. Both are useful information in tracking down histories. The only difference you will see on the page is a little plus sign that only appears if alternative spellings are found. Click on it to open them up.

There are options to change the word you use to identify an unknown surname (the default is "unknown") and to identify an unmarried couple (the default is "not married")

Show alternative spellings on a line:

Left
Right

Advisory

All of these functions are only as good as your data. And, no, I am not saying anyone has "bad data." But we all learn as we go along and change our habits of entering our folk in the database, etc. If any are returning bad data -- exclude them in the options. Please feel free to let me know... but just know I barely know how my own data is and before I can track down your problem I have to figure out how you use tng. Some steps to check out from what I know:

  1. Tng allows for multiple parents -- really useful when you want to keep two paths - but not so useful in finding ancestors. If you do this a lot, these functions will not return good data.
  2. Try to be consistent in what you do about unknown surnames, etc. There are options for as much as I could imagine.
  3. If you notice a stress or strain on your webpage, exclude the Earliest Ancestors, Alternative Surnames and Matriarchs and Patriarchs, in that order. See if things improve. But it has all looked much faster in testing than I thought possible.

Mod options are relatively extensive.

  • You can choose to show or not show any of the spouses, matriarchs and patriarchs or alternative spellings
  • You can choose to use or not use symbols in the display, or change the symbol
  • You can adjust the spellings to ignore a word you may use for an unknown surname

Languages

Thanks to Ron, Michel, Ken, Jan-Thore and Katryne Mod has Czech, Dutch, French, German, Norwegian and Spanish text. Also, thanks to the same group of people for testing and pushing it to a much improved state.

If you want to use it with a different language, add the correct text (between quotes) in the code below and add to your cust_text file in the appropriate language folder.

// ********** START: Showall Family language files
$text['eol'] = "End of Lines";
$text['otherpartners'] = "Other Partners: ";
$text['childpartners'] = "Partners: ";
$text['stepparents'] = "Stepparents";
$text['earliest'] = "Earliest Ancestors";
$text['earlyinfo'] = "This is the earliest ancestor for this individual recorded in this research.";
$text['oldend'] = "Patriarch & Matriarch";
$text['oldendinfo'] = "These are end of paternal (father to father, etc) and maternal (mother to mother. etc) lines";
$text['paternalline'] = "Paternal Line";
$text['maternalline'] = "Maternal Line";
$text['Grandfather'] = "Grandfather";
$text["Grandmother"] = "Grandmother";
$text['Greatgrandfather'] = "Great Grandfather";
$text['Greatgrandmother'] = "Great Grandmother";
$text['clickearly'] = "Click to find earliest ancestors, response may be delayed.";
$text["genback"] = "generations back";
$text['totanc'] = "total ancestors";
// ********** END: Showall Family language files

Changes and Versions

5 Oct 2019 - V4

  • Adds Earliest Ancestors
  • Adds relationships and relationship links
  • Streamlines some formatting, options and text strings.

1 Sep 2019 - V3a

  • Adds edit links and id #s if Family Edit Links Mod is installed
  • Adds full birth/death info to paternal and maternal lines
  • Moves settings to extension folder

28 Aug 2019 - V3

  • Fixes some hard-coded strings
  • Changes the way steppparents are handled
  • Changes the way married and unmarried spouses are dealt with
  • Adds Norwegian

18 Aug 2019 - V2a

17 Aug 2019 - V2

  • numerous formatting changes.
  • Adds in languages and makes some changes to the custom text strings.

Developer

This mod was developed by A.S. DuPree (a novice, happy for any help on improving it)

Requirements

  • A working TNG installation.
  • An installed current version of the Mod Manager.

Automated Installation

  1. Download the zip file in the status area in the upper right.
  2. Extract the Show_All_Family_v12.0.0.4.zip to your mod folder.
  3. Important - uninstall Show_End_of_Lines, Show_Stepparents, Other_Spouses and Show_Children_Spouses
  4. Follow the normal automated installation for Mod Manager, as shown in the example Mod Manager - Installing Config Files .

Conflicts and Issues

In the event of a problem with your TNG site

  1. Try using the Mod Manager to Remove the mod

Sites using this mod

If you download and install this mod, please add your TNG site to the table below:

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URL User Note Mod-Version TNG-Version User-language
Adupree.com A.S. DuPree Mod Developer 12.0.0.4 12.1 English
Racine d'Alsace J-Louis Valory Public- private - T17 customized 12.0.0.3a 12.1 FR
Our Roy and Boucher Family Ken Roy Beta tested v2 12.0.0.3a 12.1.0 EN, FR
Roots & Relatives Remembered Ron Krzmarzick Public & Private 12.0.0.3d Beta See Here EN,DE,CS,ES
Barta-Joggele Online aus Mauren, Liechtenstein Gerald Meier Private 12.0.0.2a 12.1 DE, EN, FR, ES, PT
Solem Genealogy Jan-Thore Solem Private 12.0.0.3 12.1 EN, NO