A central member of the family, lets say Mary, starts to bring in all her relatives and friends. See gives them the qualifiers 'Family of Mary', 'Friend of Mary', 'Business partner of Mary' or other something of Mary.
Before Mary is ready another family member, John, checks the database and starts to ad his qualifiers: 'Family of John', 'Friend of John', ''Business partner of John'. He misses his wife’s family and his friend and ad them too.
Now the other family members see the value of the system and start adding their relations as well. My old aunt Jane does not have internet so I do it for her. I only have to ad the qualifications 'Relation of Aunt Jane'. Of course a huge network of relations will develop. And every body is responsible for the relations he of she put in. The builder of this system will have a hard time to find out how the keep everything up-to-date.
The result however is a database where every relation can be found. Nice place to browse thru. Now if something happens to Mary, John or another family member you only have to select all his or her relations and print them out or download it to MS-Excel.
When realized under the Dutch privacy law there are a few small problems to overcome. In other countries there will be similar laws. Yes in a big database privacy may become a problem.
In the Netherlands you have to inform people that their name and address are put in a database and you have to mention why you did it. Everyone in the database has the right to consult the data in the database at any time. They also have the right to change or remove the data if they want to. In a family this would be a small problem I think.
Commercially this can be a big hit. Families can have their own secure place in the database and pay for a subscription every year.
Because I am very busy with WebmastersLookup, Inspector Online, more websites unreleased and selling my house I don't have the time to make this beauty. I hope somebody will pick it up.
Wim Hoogenraad
