Re: SAGE Project

--- In SpaceAgeRobin@yahoogroups.com, <petalpusherpaul@b...> wrote:
"Do you know of any program to use that allows one to write the 
parantages of Iris in trees?"--Paul Hill

Neil responds:

Mike Lowe, the new registrar, developed the program that creates the 
pedigree charts on the HIPS website, including the THORNBIRD one 
referred to.  The problem for those of us that use PC's is that 
Lowe's program is written for the Mac.

Mike tells me it could be adapted to Windows if one were adept in the 
use of one of the programs which does such things--and the one he 
named fell right through the sieve my mind is at times.

The way his program works begins with a database that has the cv 
names along with several other pieces of data including parentage in 
the simplest possible form--mama and papa, no brackets or 
parentheses.  All the seedling numbers in complex pedigrees are 
treated just like named varieties, and where no seedling number is 
given, Mike has a system for inventing a number.  

When the user wants to create a tree, he or she simply types the name 
into the box at the left side, and the program has a "look up" order 
that builds the tree automatically until it runs out of data or 
reaches a limit given, such as a certain number of generations.

The magic trick is to acquire the data in the first place.  Keith 
Keppel has been the magician in many cases to provide information 
about the parentages of seedling numbers that are not in the Check 
Lists.  He has spent years gathering up stud books, digging into 
other peoples records, old catalogs and whatever else may produce a 
grain of information.

He's been around just about the same number of years I have, except 
he hasn't taken any twenty-some year vacations from the involvement.  
He knew people like Ben Hager, Walt Luihn, a couple generations of 
Schreiners and so on personally and well.  

Mike Lowe has inherited, along with the job of registrar, access to 
Keppel's knowledge and library of data.  They are both very generous 
in sharing information, by the way.

Now, if you know someone who knows programming and can use those 
tools--or at least the one of which I don't remember the name--I know 
of at least two people who would give almost anything for a copy of 
the re-worked program and database.

Human geneology programs like *Family Tree Maker* have very limited 
use for us, as there is a limit to the number of spouses any one 
individual can have, and no way to handle the gender issue when an 
iris is fertile--and used--both ways.

Neil Mogensen   z 7 western NC 

  



 
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