Add option for sorting person list by relationship

BruceRogers

I think this would be a helpful option, though I also understand that it would be more difficult and time consuming to implement than the other existing sort options, since it would probably involve calculating those relationships at sort time. Nevertheless, it would provide a unique and helpful view into the list of people you maintain privately.

AnneLoForteWillson

@BruceRogers How do you envision this? What would the purpose of this sort be? Can you explain further about how you would use such a sort?

BruceRogers

It would be a relational view of who the living people are in your tree. I envision it being a linear list of individuals, with separation markers for the main types of relationships, so for example: spousal, sibling, parent, grandparent, greatgrandparent, etc, child, grandchild, great grandchild, and then perhaps uncle/aunt, great uncle/aunt, etc., then perhaps 1st cousins, 1st cousin once removed, 2nd cousins, 2nd cousins once removed, and so on. Alternatively the whole list is sortable by degrees of separation, or by separation of birth date, or alphabetically by name, or perhaps filter the list by limiting the list to those who you have person XXX in the path of relationship with you.

As for usefulness, it would be a quick way to know what your relationship is to some of your more distant relatives, where it isn't easily in your mind exactly what your relationship is to them. Additionally, if you are wanting to reach out to your extended family about something in an organized way, by relationship, it could present those lists to you in an order which makes sense for that purpose.

But as I indicate at first, I feel it would mainly just be an inspiring and orienting view of the living people who you have connected in your living family tree. I understand that each feature added requires engineering resources, which I assume are limited, so if such a feature comes in late in the product cycle, that is understandable. But in the long run, I feel this would be a useful feature.