GedTools Computerized Chinese Genealogy Entry Automation

Authors

Nicholas Vrvilo, Brigham Young University
Dr. Dah-Jye Lee, Brigham Young University

Keywords

GedTools, Chinese genealogy, entry automation, family history

College

Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology

Department

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Abstract

Doing family history in Chinese has many unique challenges. The Chinese writing system is not readable by the average person, which means only the small number of individuals who both hold temple recommends and are familiar with Chinese characters would be able to perform all of the family history work for all of the Chinese people. To avoid this problem, the Church requires Romanized1 versions of all Chinese names to be included all family history records submitted for temple work. This poses a problem because most Chinese genealogy workers in Taiwan (where a great deal of Chinese genealogy work is done) are not familiar with this Romanization system. Not only must they enter all of their ancestors’ names twice, but they have to look up the Romanized version of each Chinese character.

Recommended Citation

Vrvilo, Nicholas and Lee, Dr. Dah-Jye (2013) "GedTools Computerized Chinese Genealogy Entry Automation," Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2013: Iss. 1, Article 1906.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2013/iss1/1906