About:

This is a personal project. I'm interested in my lineage. And I'm interested in improving genealogy data storage systems.

Graph databases are well suited for this type of information. They are very effecient at answering questions about relationships between nodes.

But I don't have a graph database available to me on my very affordable web host. But I do have access to MySQL wich is a relational database. So I'm modeling graph database structures in a relational database. Don't judge me.

I'm not being strict to the Graph Theory, because strict adherence would lessen the user experience. I'm not doing this to prove I can model a graph database inside a relational database. I'm doing this to track my genealogy, and graph structures seem to be the best way for me to do it.