It is often good to know if any of the managers or added-by of a profile is a close relative. Unless (or even if) they had the same surname, it's often hard to tell without some clicking around. From a practical need, close shall mean that the relationship instantly comes up (not stored), i.e. without clicking to search for path.
One reason for this is that many of Geni's power users (especially curators) add notables that they have no relations to, which is fine, but it'd be nice to distinguish those from ones created by family members. Another reason is when merging and resolving conflicts, data entered by closer relatives should be given more consideration, even if they didn't take the time to upload supporting documents. Also we may more easily spot claimed historical profiles, and cut them loose before merging.
A number of places it may be useful:
- profile page
- side-by-side comparison
- resolve data conflict
Not to clutter the valuable space, it seems best to include the relationship on hovercards (right below the name and above the immediate family section). Something like {first_name of the focus}'s {relationship} would do. With no hovercards in treeview, and with the new flip node too crowded already, we shall leave treeview out of this feature request.
In fact, if the profile's About has any linked names, it may be good to have their relationship to the profile (if close) on hovercard too, perhaps with the exception of the immediate family which already appear twice on the page.
Places like the "manager" column of
- search results
- project profiles list
- tree match results
it's helpful to know if the manager has any relation to that specific profile. Since, as of now, only the primary manager is shown in lists, we may include the relation right on the page because the other columns always take up more space anyways.
In timeline events, if people use them as they were initially designed for (such as adding guests to a wedding), it's best to show the relations to the main characters of the event (if any), not to me the viewer. (That could be a separate request, but it does show that such relationships are readily available, and can be easily added to more places.)
