Genealogy Visualizations

Robbie Hott, www.cs.virginia.edu/~jh2jf

Visualization Samples

• Chord Diagram: Displays a chord diagram of a marriage. Given a husband's id (by argument "id") from the real database, it shows that man's marriages and children in chord form. Links are created from women to their children in the marriage.
  • Sample Male-Oriented Chord Diagram: Chord diagram of Parley Parker Pratt and his wives and children
  • Sample Female-Oriented Chord Diagram: Chord diagram of Zina Huntington and her husbands and children
• Chord Diagram over Time: Displays a chord diagram of the marriage, allowing the user to choose a time within the marriage to view or use a slider to step through the marriage. Given a husband's id (by argument "id") from the real database, it shows that man's marriages and children in chord form. It also allows for a "time" argument of the form "YYYY-MM-DD" as the date of the marriage status to show Links are created from women to their children in the marriage
  • Sample Male-Oriented Temporal Chord Diagram: Chord diagram of Parley Parker Pratt and his wives and children
  • Sample Female-Oriented Temporal Chord Diagram: Chord diagram of Zina Huntington and her husbands and children
• Lineage Flow Network: Displays a sankey-like diagram of marriages, where the marriage units are represented by circles in the diagram. People are hyperedges between marriages, utilizing a square node to define the person in the network. On clicking a marriage unit, this will open up a popup frame with a chord diagram of the marriage.
  • Patriarchal Samples
    • Orson and Parley Pratt with 1 degree of separation
    • Brigham Young and relatives
    • Joseph Smith and relatives
    • Brigham Young, Joseph Smith, and relatives
  • Matriarchal Samples
    • Zina Huntington and 1 degree of separation
    • Zina and Prescendia Huntington and 1 degree of separation
• Temporal Lineage Flow Network: Displays a sankey-like flow diagram of marriages, where the marriage units are represented by circles in the diagram. People are hyperedges between marriages, utilizing a square node to define the person in the network. This version is temporal, meaning that it provides a time slider to visualize which portions of the lineage are alive at any point in time. Any marriages or individuals which have no dates available will be shown "ghosted" for all time. On clicking a marriage unit, this will open up a popup frame with a chord diagram of the marriage.
  • Patriarchal Samples
    • Orson and Parley Pratt with 1 degree of separation
    • Brigham Young and relatives
    • Joseph Smith and relatives
    • Brigham Young, Joseph Smith, and relatives
  • Matriarchal Samples
    • Zina Huntington and 1 degree of separation
    • Zina and Prescendia Huntington and 1 degree of separation

We have collaborated with BYU's Nauvoo Community Project, who have supplied an initial database. Additional research was performed to include a richer set of data on the polygamous marriages of the Annointed Quorum and individuals linked to those members.