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Wikidata:WikiProject Genealogy

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The WikiProject Genealogy works on improving information about family trees on Wikidata.

  • Directly connected
  • Incorrectly connected

FAQ for new users

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Help:FAQ/Genealogy

Properties

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Family relationship

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WikiProject Parenthood maintains a list of family relationship properties.

Identifiers for databases

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Records in such databases are usually linked to each other.

PropertyUsesItemNumber
in
DB
% linked
from
Wikidata
Size
compared
to
Wikidata[1]
MxMCharlemagne
Rodovid ID (P1185) 81196 Rodovid12512676.49 % 9.57 % 6068 8601
genealogics.org person ID (P1819) 325498 Genealogics80748140.31 % 6.18 % 53 I00000001
Geni.com profile ID (P2600) 507417 Geni.com1936969070.26 % 1482.21 % 3066 6000000002457013227
FamilySearch person ID (P2889) 31128 FamilySearch Family Tree18200000000 % 13927.05 % LZ62-TSV
WikiTree person ID (P2949) 411620 WikiTree397660551.04 % 304.3 % Carolingian-77
Kindred Britain ID (P3051) 29940 Kindred Britain29937100.01 % 0.23 % 234 I2491
GEDBAS genealogy person ID (P4108) 322 GEDBAS317843210 % 243.22 % 1181500410
JewAge person ID (P4116) 49 JewAge.org3476940.01 % 2.66 %
WeRelate person ID (P4159) 35923 WeRelate31000001.16 % 23.72 % Charlemagne_(1)
Familypedia person ID (P4193) 770 Familypedia775220.99 % 0.59 % Charlemagne_(747-814)
Norwegian historical register of persons ID (P4574) 29937 historical register of persons63893890.47 % 48.89 %
Merkelstiftung person ID (P4620) 703 Geneological database Merkel-Zeller215493.26 % 0.16 % 905
The Peerage person ID (P4638) 720014 The Peerage75566895.28 % 5.78 % 695 p10107.htm#i101064
Roglo person ID (P7929) 85109 Roglo102680980.83 % 78.57 % 7435 p=charles;n=de+herstal
DAR ancestor ID (P7969) 290 Daughters of the American Revolution ancestor database
AncientFaces person ID (P7977) 140 AncientFaces1036298920 % 793 % 1306940
GeneaStar person ID (P8094) 13251 GeneaStar2181960.73 % 0.17 % 3634
SAR ancestor ID (P8143) 3912 Sons of the American Revolution patriot database1652612.37 % 1.26 %
FactGrid item ID (P8168) 488910 FactGrid415100117.78 % 3.18 % Q16946
Sejm-Wielki.pl profile ID (P8172) 64918 Sejm-Wielki.pl10000006.49 % 7.65 % 5734 dw.7689
Political Graveyard politician ID (P8462) 25782 The Political Graveyard3024778.52 % 2.31 % 4491
Data Collection of the Hungarian Peerage ID (P9129) 4273 Data Collection of the Hungarian Peerage3224813.25 % 0.25 % 4247

See also Wikidata:WikiProject Genealogy/Notables for further examples of these properties.

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Identifier on item Property on item with value Values with id Values without id %without ref
genealogics.org person ID (P1819) spouse (P26) 103154 26378 20.4 w wo symmetric
Geni.com profile ID (P2600) spouse (P26) 106958 61348 36.5 w wo symmetric
FamilySearch person ID (P2889) spouse (P26) 7664 6477 45.8 w wo symmetric
WikiTree person ID (P2949) spouse (P26) 163318 32781 16.7 w wo symmetric
The Peerage person ID (P4638) spouse (P26) 422127 6053 1.4 w wo symmetric
Roglo person ID (P7929) spouse (P26) 43901 10481 19.3 w wo symmetric
Sejm-Wielki.pl profile ID (P8172) spouse (P26) 17947 4424 19.8 w wo symmetric
genealogics.org person ID (P1819) father (P22) 150821 12651 7.7 w wo
Geni.com profile ID (P2600) father (P22) 112517 45052 28.6 w wo
WikiTree person ID (P2949) father (P22) 129073 23884 15.6 w wo
genealogics.org person ID (P1819) mother (P25) 127041 13456 9.6 w wo
Geni.com profile ID (P2600) mother (P25) 52696 42786 44.8 w wo
WikiTree person ID (P2949) mother (P25) 88107 27386 23.7 w wo
Geni.com profile ID (P2600) child (P40) 192099 163837 46 w wo
WikiTree person ID (P2949) child (P40) 229109 157472 40.7 w wo

Birth, death, burial

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These databases hold primary information about birth, death, burial, and do not mainly provide family relationship. Sometimes relative information may be found in unlinked texts.

PropertyUsesItemNumber
in
DB
% linked
from
Wikidata
Size
compared
to
Wikidata[1]
MxMCharlemagne
Find a Grave memorial ID (P535) 185504 Find a Grave2506443650.07 % 1917.99 % 865 6623
CWGC person ID (P1908) 4192 Commonwealth War Graves Commission database17483160.24 % 13.38 %
Dutch Cemetery in Chinsurah person ID (P4458) 162 The Dutch Cemetery in Chinsurah 649
Scottish Cemetery Kolkata person ID (P4512) 3 6170
Czech War Graves Register (P7949) 1504 Portal of the central register of war graves3244390.46 % 2.48 %

Identifiers for cemeteries

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PropertyUsesItemNumber
in
DB
% linked
from
Wikidata
Size
compared
to
Wikidata
CWGC burial ground ID (P1920) 5463
Find a Grave cemetery ID (P2025) 211155 Find a Grave
BillionGraves cemetery ID (P4352) 4744 BillionGraves
Volksbund ID (P6244) 524 German War Graves Commission
Foreign war churchyards in Norway ID (P8387) 43
Geneanet cemetery ID (P9189) 38062 Geneanet
Cemeteries of France ID (P8337) 125
Online Begraafplaatsen cemetery ID (P9884) 268
Cimiterium ID (P9472) 4693

Participants

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The participants listed below can be notified using the following template in discussions:
{{Ping project|Genealogy}}

Statistics

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ancestors
descendants
others

Extracting & Display of Genealogy Relationships

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Information about genealogy relationships being stored in Wikidata can be extracted and displayed in various ways:

  1. using RDF query language SPARQL commands
  2. using templates within Wikipedia articles and tools via a webbrowser using readymade queries

Examples of SPARQL Queries

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#defaultView:Graph
SELECT
  ?item
  ?itemLabel
  ?linkTo
  ?linkToLabel
  (?propertyLabel AS ?edgeLabel)
{
  wd:Q179577 (wdt:P22|wdt:P25)* ?item.

  {?item p:P22 [ps:P22 ?linkTo; ?ps []].}
  UNION
  {?item p:P25 [ps:P25 ?linkTo; ?ps []].}

  ?property wikibase:statementProperty ?ps.

  SERVICE wikibase:label {
    bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en".
    ?item rdfs:label ?itemLabel.
    ?linkTo rdfs:label ?linkToLabel.
    ?property rdfs:label ?propertyLabel.
  }
}
Try it!

Examples of Wikipedia Templates

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Examples of Tools

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  • EntiTree navigable Family Tree (D3 inspired) using ReactJS
  • GeneaWiki is a simple external graph viewer showing genealogy information in WikiData.
  • Ancestor viewer a viewer tool that shows also birth dates and images of the persons (if available), limited to the display of up to four generations, just parent/kip display, no display of siblings
  • Relator a viewer tool that shows also siblings and spouses, limited to the display of up to three generations
  • Gravemap tool displaying graves with coordinates in Wikidata and if a grave has a picture se graves.wiki
  • Wikimedia Alignment Project - an active project on WeRelate. Over 31,500 WeRelate Person pages are tagged with their corresponding Wikidata ID. Seeks to improve both the content of WeRelate AND Wikidata. About 9,000 new Wikidata genealogy claims have been created since May 2017 - on the basis of the WeRelate tree. The python script which performs the WeRelate/Wikidata comparison is available from github.

Stated in

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Types of references

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Reference lists

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Maintenance reports / error tracking

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The following errors need to be corrected:

Subprojects

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  1. 1.0 1.1 As of 20260310062812, Wikidata has 13068092 items about humans.