Find family connections between people born thousands of years apart. Information from over 600,000 individuals has been pulled from Wikidata using Beautiful Soup 4 and requests in python.
From Arnie to Liz, via JFK!
The path() method in the Person object uses breadth-first search to find the shortest path between 2 people, and prints out all individuals in the path.
This is the script used to scrape wikidata.org. I let it run on a AWS Micro server, which took about 12 days to pull all 600,000 people
ancestorsFinal.txt holds all the data that was extracted by running the tree_builder.py script. One person per line, and columns are separated with an asterisk character (*) due to issues with comma in peoples names causing parsing issues
Disclaimer: As the data is from Wikidata, which is a collaboratively edited knowledge base, not all connections can be verified. References are included on the individuals wikidata page where available.