Drafting scope for now:
- Family trees
- GEDCOM, new formats, proprietary eg. in FamilyTreeDNA web
- Other genealogists
- More or less reliable public collections
- Higher order methods such as ancestral recombination graphs and tree sequences (combines with genetics)
- Hard, factual relationship structure
- Unified mesh out of the primitive mother-father-child motif
- Genetics
- Biological mechanism
- Diploid genome, unphased sequence
- Base pairs versus morgan
- Sex chromosomes and mitochondria
- Mutation rate
- Relation to patronymikon
- Relationship motif constraints ("X-matches")
- Meiosis and fertilisation
- Haploid gametes (half genome)
- Crossover (probability in sperm vs egg)
- Matches (siloed in different sites)
- Estimated relationship distance ("what are the odds")
- Match metrics (common SNPs, longest match)
- Common matches
- Clustering - geneticaffairs (improving, but originally a crude binary adjacency matrix)
- Pitfall - population segments
- Triangulation
- Segments matching for three or more people ...
- ... or estimated relationship distance
- "DNA painting" / "Chromosome browser"
- Plot match segments
- Deduce ancestor contributions from match segments and vice versa (hypothetically apply other methods recursively for ancestors)
- Phasing
- Particularly applicable for three whole-siblings (but hypothetically useful in a "fuzzy" fashion)
- Learn crossover loci (edges of match segments)
- Learn grandparent "mosaic" (reconcile with matches)
- Allen's interval algebra
- Actual SNP sequences
- Private!
- Deduce their and ancestor segments
- Biological mechanism
- Public records
- Accessibility
- Proprietary, subscription and compilations
- Interpretation, translation
- Digitize
- Scan
- Read (OCR)
- Index
- Structure
- Archives
- Contents
- Graves
- Catalogues
- Inventory
- Legal records
- Libraries
- News
- Literature
- Portrait collections
- Referencing, quoting and authorities
- Accessibility
- Private knowledge, photos, anecdotes etc.
- History / geography
- Locations
- Proximity
- Chronology (migration)
- Events and periods
- Chronology (biography)
- Causality
- Age
- Duration
- Allen's interval algebra
- Entities and borders
- Countries
- Counties
- Parishes
- Estates, farms and addresses
- Partly in family trees and public records
- Locations
- Populations
- Location-centric genealogy
- Migration patterns
- Statistics
- Coverage of knowledge (records keeping and research)
- Ancestry and composition
- Cultural heritage
- Health
- Heritable disease
- Susceptibilities and advice
- Other phenotypes
- Appearance (facial quantization?)
- Forensic
- Need to pinpoint ancestors (and their descendants) of perpetrators at scale