How to create list from self-referencing data type (like parent-child relationships in genealogy)

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I saw a nice plugin that may be of some use for your project.

[New plugin] Fully Customizable Organizational Chart (OrgChart)

Thank you so much. I really appreciate the effort. I’ve been trying to find ways to get around this myself for the past few days, but it would be great to figure this out. For my use case, I can’t have the sliding bars and need to be able to see the chart zoomed out. It’s so frustrating because this plugin is perfect aside from that small feature, and I really don’t want to have to try and build one from scratch when this plugin is available As I said, happy to pay or even try t…

Database wise, as you say, each person has a parent and a child list, and from that the family tree will propagate with the correct repeating groups.