Genealogy Model 3

This is the third version of my simple genealogy modeler. This program creates randomized genealogies with a process influenced by several customizable parameters.

The makegen tool

This tool allows easy customized running of genealogy examinations. The kinds of runs implemented so far are:

• Single Genealogy
• Single-Trait

Dependencies

Make sure your have the following installed:

• python3
• Graphviz (free download)
• Various python packages listed in requirements.txt. These can be installed with pip install -r requirements.txt

Downloading

Before running anything, you will need to download this repository. I suggest doing something like the following in terminal (command line):

$ cd ~/Documents/
$ git clone https://github.com/Riib11/GenealogyModel3.git

This will create a directory named GenealogyModel3/ in your main documents directory (~/Document). To use this method, you will need to have git installed

Running makegen

1. Create a new file <config-name>.json in the makegen_configs/ directory, where <config-name> is the name of this config file.
2. Customize the settings in the json file, following the template of template.json.
3. Open terminal (command line) and execute the following:

    $ cd /path/to/GenealogyModel3/
    $ python3 makegen.py makegen_config/<config-name>.json

The first line navigates to the GenealogyModel3 directory (wherever it happens to be). The second line runs the makegen tool with the <config-name>.json settings as input. The resulting genealogy will be created in the makegen_output/ directory. It will automatically be named to match the name entry in the config file..

Server

Much of the functionality of makegen can be offered on a website. The code for this is in the server folder, and the server can bs started with start_server.py.