Creating Family Tree with Neo4J

Question

I have a set of data for a family tree in Neo4J and am trying to build a Cypher query that produces a JSON data set similar to the following:

{Name:  \"Bob\"         


        

Answer 1

Genealogical data might comply with the GEDCOM standard and include two types of nodes: Person and Union. The Person node has its identifier and the usual demographic facts. The Union nodes have a union_id and the facts about the union. In GEDCOM, Family is a third element bringing these two together. But in Neo4j, I found it suitable to also include the union_id in Person nodes. I used 5 relationships: father, mother, husband, wife and child. The family is then two parents with an inward vector and each child with an outward vector. The image illustrates this. This is very handy for visualizing connections and generating hypotheses. For example, consider the attached picture and my ancestor Edward G Campbell, the product of union 1917 where three brothers married three Vaught sisters from union 8944 and two married Gaither sisters from union 2945. Also, in the upper left, how Mahala Campbell married her step-brother John Greer Armstrong. Next to Mahala is an Elizabeth Campbell who is connected by marriage to other Campbell, but is likely directly related to them. Similarly, you can hypothesize about Rachael Jacobs in the upper right and how she might relate to the other Jacobs. I use bulk inserts which can populate ~30000 Person nodes and ~100,000 relationships in just over a minute. I have a small .NET function that returns the JSon from a dataview; this generic solution works with any dataview so it is scalable. I'm now working on adding other data, such as locations (lat/long), documentation (particularly that linking folks, such as a census), etc.