Drafting scope for now:

• Family trees
  • GEDCOM, new formats, proprietary eg. in FamilyTreeDNA web
  • Other genealogists
  • More or less reliable public collections
  • Higher order methods such as ancestral recombination graphs and tree sequences (combines with genetics)
  • Hard, factual relationship structure
  • Unified mesh out of the primitive mother-father-child motif
• Genetics
  • Biological mechanism
    • Diploid genome, unphased sequence
    • Base pairs versus morgan
    • Sex chromosomes and mitochondria
      • Mutation rate
      • Relation to patronymikon
      • Relationship motif constraints ("X-matches")
    • Meiosis and fertilisation
      • Haploid gametes (half genome)
      • Crossover (probability in sperm vs egg)
  • Matches (siloed in different sites)
    • Estimated relationship distance ("what are the odds")
    • Match metrics (common SNPs, longest match)
    • Common matches
      • Clustering - geneticaffairs (improving, but originally a crude binary adjacency matrix)
      • Pitfall - population segments
      • Triangulation
        • Segments matching for three or more people ...
        • ... or estimated relationship distance
  • "DNA painting" / "Chromosome browser"
    • Plot match segments
    • Deduce ancestor contributions from match segments and vice versa (hypothetically apply other methods recursively for ancestors)
  • Phasing
    • Particularly applicable for three whole-siblings (but hypothetically useful in a "fuzzy" fashion)
    • Learn crossover loci (edges of match segments)
    • Learn grandparent "mosaic" (reconcile with matches)
    • Allen's interval algebra
  • Actual SNP sequences
    • Private!
    • Deduce their and ancestor segments
• Public records
  • Accessibility
    • Proprietary, subscription and compilations
    • Interpretation, translation
  • Digitize
    • Scan
    • Read (OCR)
    • Index
    • Structure
      • Archives
      • Contents
  • Graves
    • Catalogues
    • Inventory
  • Legal records
  • Libraries
    • News
    • Literature
    • Portrait collections
  • Referencing, quoting and authorities
• Private knowledge, photos, anecdotes etc.
• History / geography
  • Locations
    • Proximity
    • Chronology (migration)
  • Events and periods
    • Chronology (biography)
    • Causality
    • Age
    • Duration
    • Allen's interval algebra
  • Entities and borders
    • Countries
    • Counties
    • Parishes
    • Estates, farms and addresses
  • Partly in family trees and public records
• Populations
  • Location-centric genealogy
  • Migration patterns
  • Statistics
  • Coverage of knowledge (records keeping and research)
  • Ancestry and composition
  • Cultural heritage
• Health
  • Heritable disease
  • Susceptibilities and advice
  • Other phenotypes
    • Appearance (facial quantization?)
• Forensic
  • Need to pinpoint ancestors (and their descendants) of perpetrators at scale