Genaology tree stuff

MyHeritage.md

Extract siblings, daughters and sons

From a person's Profile page.

var siblings = {};
var family = {};
var parents = [];
    
[...document.querySelectorAll('.family_relative')].forEach(i => {
    const relativeName = i.querySelector('.relative_name')?.textContent
    const relationship = i.querySelector('.relative_relationship')?.textContent
    const [ birth, death = null ] = i.querySelector('.relative_years').textContent.split('-').map(i => i.trim())
    const isDead = death !== null
    const relationshipString = relationship.replace(/(his|her) /i, '')
    const isSibling = /(brother|sister)/i.test(relationshipString)
    const isSpouse = /(husband|wife)/.test(relationship)
    const isParent = /(mother|father)/.test(relationship)
    const isChild = /(daughter|son)/.test(relationship)
    let row = `${relativeName}`
    let dates = []

    if (Number.parseInt(birth)) {
        dates.push(birth)
    }
    
    if (isDead) {
        let d = ''
        if (Number.parseInt(death)) {
            d += `deceased ${death}`;
        } else {
            d += `deceased`;
        }
        if (d !== '') {
            dates.push(d)
        }
    }

    if(dates.length >= 1) {
        row += ' (' + dates.join(', ') + ')'
    }
    
    if (isSibling) {
        const s = Reflect.get(siblings, relationshipString) ?? []
        s.push(row)
        Reflect.set(siblings, relationshipString, s)
    } else if (isChild) {
        const s = Reflect.get(family, relationshipString) ?? []
        s.push(row)
        Reflect.set(family, relationshipString, s)
    } else if (isSpouse) {
        const s = Reflect.get(family, 'spouse') ?? []
        s.push(row)
        Reflect.set(family, 'spouse', s)
    } else if (isParent) {
        const deathText = (death === null) ? '~' : death
        const parent = {
            name: relativeName,
            birth,
            birthplace: "~",
            death: deathText,
            deathplace: "~",
            parents: [],
        }
        parents.push(parent)
    }
    
    console.log({row,  relativeName, relationshipString, relationship, birth, death, isDead, isSibling, isSpouse, isParent })
})
copy({family, siblings, parents})

Example output

family:
  spouse:
    - 'Delina Marie Chauvette (1880, deceased 1939)'
  son:
    - 'Joseph Alfred Boulanger (1900, deceased 1905)'
    - 'Alphonse Boulanger (1902, deceased 1970)'
    - 'Oscar Henri Boulanger (1905, deceased 1970)'
    - 'Alfred Louis Boulanger (1910, deceased)'
    - 'Omer Boulanger (1920, deceased)'
  daughter:
    - 'Marie Rosina Boulanger (1903, deceased 1978)'
    - 'Rose Eva Boulanger (1909, deceased)'
    - 'Dorilla Boulanger (1912, deceased 1998)'
    - 'Rose Aimée Boulanger (1917, deceased 1997)'
    - Demerise Rose Eva Boulanger
siblings:
  sister:
    - 'Rosina Rose Anna Marie Boulanger (1877, deceased 1962)'
    - 'Emma Claudia Boulanger (1883, deceased 1921)'
    - 'Louise Anna Boulanger (1885, deceased 1973)'
    - 'Philomene Boulanger (1892, deceased 1982)'
    - 'Josephine Flora Boulanger (1893, deceased 1934)'
    - 'Demerise Boulanger (1896, deceased 1922)'
    - Virginia Marie Boulanger
  brother:
    - 'Alfred  Adelard Boulanger (1882, deceased)'
    - 'Anonyme Boulanger (1887, deceased 1887)'
    - 'Henri Honore Boulanger (1888, deceased 1945)'
    - 'Napoleon Josephat Adelard Boulanger (1891, deceased 1891)'

This looks interesting, can you give some context?!

This is code I’ve written to extract information on MyHeritage.com using developer console JavaScript. There’s more, I’m surprised I forgot the rest. I used this to get all my family up to 5 generations up.