[Piskvorrr]

Is this a current use case, or did that just make sense 100 years ago? (As in these assumptions: "tracking actual relationships in data is Hard, and family name correlates strongly with real-world relationships") I mean, it sort of works even today, but neither of the assumptions are as strong any more.

[nradov]

It's still a current use case for healthcare provider workflows. Also helps a lot when doing automated record linkage between different systems.