Showfacts siblings

Template documentation

Description

Displays a table or tables of the siblings and half-siblings of an individual on the individual's "basepage" or any of its subpages. It is very similar to Showfacts children and calls the same sub-templates (listed below).

Property Types

• Very Important - the Person profile must properly declare children group data as a data type.
  • John Mangum (1817-1881) - data type declaration not working
  • Brigham Young (1801-1877) - working data type - first six children groups are declared data type. Confirm this with looking at the special browse page (Special:Browse/Brigham Young.
  • I suspect this problem has something to do with needing the FORM to declare your children!

Assumptions

1. Assumes father's file is primary data source of siblings data
2. If no father's file exists - then mother's file may be a secondary source
3. Mother may have children from multiple fathers/marriages - those would be half siblings of the individual.

Syntax

Type or paste {{Showfacts siblings}} where you want it to appear

If there are half-siblings or the father has no facts page, you may need to use parameters. See Help:Children#Siblings.]]

Linked Templates

The following subtemplates are designed for easy use by both Showfacts Children & Showfacts Siblings to display family groups for designated person profiles

1. Template:Showfacts children/nest3 ---start children group displays for a parent - this will show up to 24 marriages/children groups. (ie Brigham Young (1801-1877).
2. Template:Showfacts children/nest4 ---Setup WikiTable Children - One Group
3. Template:Showfacts children/nest5 TemplateMapArray - Working Children's Group WikiTable
4. Template:Emark1 - The Exclamation Mark for wiki table header

Incomplete work -

1. Watch handling of names with special characters (like commas and apostraphes)
   1. Edward O'Hara (c1810-1863) // Edward O'Reilly (1844-1900)
   2. Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (1443-1524) // George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick (1746-1816)
2. Add extra logic code to find step-siblings for spouse (mother) married to other partners. Initial Siblings call looks for all children listed for the father.