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Wikidata:WikiProject Genealogy

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.

 
Person properties
Name
Birth
Death
General
Education
Profession
Views
Body
Family

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) 71327 6068 8601
genealogics.org person ID (P1819) 277754 Genealogics72564238.28 % 6.36 % 53 I00000001
Geni.com profile ID (P2600) 450601 3066 6000000002457013227
FamilySearch person ID (P2889) 23737 LZ62-TSV
WikiTree person ID (P2949) 347029 Carolingian-77
Kindred Britain ID (P3051) 29945 234 I2491
GEDBAS genealogy person ID (P4108) 173 1181500410
JewAge person ID (P4116) 29 JewAge.org2895970.01 % 2.54 %
WeRelate person ID (P4159) 32561 Charlemagne_(1)
Familypedia person ID (P4193) 756 Charlemagne_(747-814)
Norwegian historical register of persons ID (P4574) 9534
Merkelstiftung person ID (P4620) 655 905
The Peerage person ID (P4638) 719698 695 p10107.htm#i101064
Roglo person ID (P7929) 48118 p=charles;n=de+herstal
DAR ancestor ID (P7969) 152
AncientFaces person ID (P7977) 112 1306940
GeneaStar person ID (P8094) 13219 3634
SAR ancestor ID (P8143) 2763
FactGrid item ID (P8168) 427623 Q16946
Sejm-Wielki.pl profile ID (P8172) 59153 5734 dw.7689
Political Graveyard politician ID (P8462) 21745 4491
Data Collection of the Hungarian Peerage ID (P9129) 3388 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) ⇔ 82747 25850 23.8 w wo symmetric
Geni.com profile ID (P2600) spouse (P26) ⇔ 86650 53032 38 w wo symmetric
FamilySearch person ID (P2889) ⇔ spouse (P26) ⇔ 6083 5083 45.5 w wo symmetric
WikiTree person ID (P2949) ⇔ spouse (P26) ⇔ 139514 32781 19 w wo symmetric
The Peerage person ID (P4638) ⇔ spouse (P26) ⇔ 420904 5099 1.2 w wo symmetric
Roglo person ID (P7929) spouse (P26) ⇔ 23707 7030 22.9 w wo symmetric
Sejm-Wielki.pl profile ID (P8172) spouse (P26) ⇔ 13338 3846 22.4 w wo symmetric
genealogics.org person ID (P1819) ⇔ father (P22) 127841 12651 9 w wo
Geni.com profile ID (P2600) father (P22) 90391 39528 30.4 w wo
WikiTree person ID (P2949) ⇔ father (P22) 109391 23884 17.9 w wo
genealogics.org person ID (P1819) ⇔ mother (P25) 106359 13707 11.4 w wo
Geni.com profile ID (P2600) mother (P25) 40526 37314 47.9 w wo
WikiTree person ID (P2949) ⇔ mother (P25) 75370 23528 23.8 w wo
Geni.com profile ID (P2600) child (P40) 155529 144608 48.2 w wo
WikiTree person ID (P2949) ⇔ child (P40) 192749 140503 42.2 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) 150561 Find a Grave2100000000.07 % 1840.78 % 865 6623
CWGC person ID (P1908) 4068
Dutch Cemetery in Chinsurah person ID (P4458) 162 649
Scottish Cemetery Kolkata person ID (P4512) 2 The Scottish Cemetery in Bengal 6170
Czech War Graves Register (P7949) 552

Identifiers for cemeteries

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PropertyUsesItemNumber
in
DB		% linked
from
Wikidata		Size
compared
to
Wikidata
CWGC burial ground ID (P1920) 5162
Find a Grave cemetery ID (P2025) 208540 Find a Grave
BillionGraves cemetery ID (P4352) 4432
Volksbund ID (P6244) 493
Foreign war churchyards in Norway ID (P8387) 43
Geneanet cemetery ID (P9189) 37999 Geneanet
Cemeteries of France ID (P8337) 125
Online Begraafplaatsen cemetery ID (P9884) 243
Cimiterium ID (P9472) 4691

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 20240918180011, Wikidata has 11408190 items about humans.
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