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🌳 Plowright Family Tree

Version 1.0.0, by Andrew Plowright

Summary

Creation of a printable family tree for my Pierre Tremblay (my uncle) using the data gathered by his relatives as well as data available on nosorigines.qc.ca.

Updates

  • v1.0.0, 2024-08-11: First print version
  • v0.9.2, 2024-07-09: Various small corrections
  • v0.9.1, 2024-07-06: First draft sent to Catherine Plowright for review.

Processing

1. Manually clean up data

The preliminary spreadsheet provided by Catherine Plowright was manually cleaned up.

2. Convert to JSON

The plowright_data_processing.R file is used to convert the manually cleaned-up spreadsheet to JSON format, including plowright_data_cleaned.json and plowright_collapsed_branches.json, which defines which families will be collapsed (for future projects, I don't think it's necessary to have this as a second JSON file).

3. Plot initial positions

The 1_graph_skeleton.jsx script takes the data in plowright_data_cleaned.json and graphs it into Illustrator. The next step is to:

  1. Manually reposition the nodes
  2. Manually trim out unwanted nodes (mostly in order to fit the tree into a legible layout)
  3. Save the results as plowright_skeleton_trimmed.ai
  4. Run the 2_get_repositions.jsx script to grab this information from the AI file and save it in the plowright_repositions.json file

4. Plot the results into a family tree

The final step is to use the 3_populate_tree.jsx script to create the final family tree, which is saved as plowright_family_tree.ai and then saved as a PDF.