[ANN] Open genealogical dataset with VIAF, GND and Wikidata identifiers

From: <hello_at_nyob> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2026 15:54:40 +0100 To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTS.CLIR.ORG

Hi all,

sharing in case it is useful for authority-data and linked-data work. Human Lineage (https://humanlineage.org) is a free public genealogical graph of historical people (50+ million profiles, built mainly from Wikidata and WikiTree). We have published an open subset as a versioned dump: 2.7 million deceased persons with persistent external identifiers (Wikidata, VIAF, GND, ISNI, LCCN, BnF), 480k parent-child and 135k couple relationships, GEDCOM-X JSON Lines, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23284943

Feedback on the identifier mappings is very welcome. Disclosure: I maintain the project.

Best regards,

Human Lineage

https://humanlineage.org