[Feature] Import family relationships from Parenthese and display them in People

[Askrosm]

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• Yes

The feature

Is your feature request related to a problem?

Immich recognizes people in photos, but it does not let me explore those people through their family relationships.

I use [[Parenthèse](https://github.com/IliesAllali/parenthese)](https://github.com/IliesAllali/parenthese), a self-hosted family-tree application. Its Immich integration already lets users link a person in their family tree to an Immich person and retrieve their portrait. However, the family relationships recorded in Parenthèse are not available in Immich.

Describe the solution you'd like

Allow Immich to import or synchronize family relationships from Parenthèse, reusing the existing associations between Parenthèse people and Immich person IDs.

For example, if Alice is linked to an Immich person and Parenthèse identifies Bob as her father and Claire as her sister, Alice’s person page in Immich could display a “Family” section with links to Bob and Claire.

Useful capabilities would include:

• Importing parent–child and partner relationships.
• Deriving relationships such as siblings and grandparents.
• Displaying related people on a person’s page, with direct access to their photos.
• Providing a manual refresh, with optional periodic synchronization.
• Previewing imported relationships and flagging unresolved person associations.
• Respecting Immich’s existing access permissions when displaying relatives and their photos.

A first implementation could use one-way synchronization, with Parenthèse remaining the source of truth for family relationships. Editing the family tree inside Immich would not be necessary.

Describe alternatives you've considered

• Maintaining the family tree separately and switching between applications.
• Adding links to Parenthèse from Immich person pages.
• A generic relationship API or integration interface, allowing external genealogy applications to supply relationships without requiring a dedicated Parenthèse integration.

Additional context

This would connect two complementary tools: Parenthèse describes how family members are related, while Immich holds their photographic history. Being able to navigate between relatives directly in Immich would make family photo libraries easier to explore.

Platform

• Server
• Web
• Mobile

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[Askrosm]

I don't think it's a duplicate

[Askrosm]

I don't think it's a duplicate

[bo0tzz]

I don't see us adding this directly. With something like #23630, a separate tool could do it through the API.