

Sooner or later, you'll want to use your data elsewhere, and for that, you need a GEDCOM export. MediaWiki does poorly with pulling meaning out of structured and relational data, such as genealogical data. Webtrees - this is probably closest to what you originally asked for.Īs for MediaWiki, don't use it. Looks like they also have a version that supports GEDCOM's Most desktop genealogy programs have some sort of site generator built in. The Master Genealogist (TMG) - I've seen this praised many times, but was the labour of a single programmer who retired over five years ago. Other genealogical programs (I haven't used any of them): For a website generator, I've used GigaTrees previously, although I'm considering writing my own site generator to better control the output. no database) because it is cheap and easy to host (free on GitHub Pages) and it won't break if I let it sit for months at a time. Personally, I like to create a static site (i.e. (GEDCOM files are the de facto standard for moving around genealogical information.) From here, pick a website generator that can consume your GEDCOM export. Pick yourself a (desktop) genealogy program (I like RootsMagic, and even their free version is very capable) the only hard requirement is that it can import and export GEDCOM files. If you're okay with the online version being static, then your options open up considerably. Now multiply that by thousands of people over hundreds of years across multiple continents.Īs well, to find a good genealogy program is hard, and so to find one that runs on a web server is a considerable limit on a very narrow field. To give you but one example: my grandmother's sister completed the death certificate when her father (my great grandfather) died, but put down the wrong birthdate. The reason being that the records are often lacking or contradictory, and so I find me helpful to be the one making the decisions as to what to present as the "official version". I'm not convinced genealogy is the sort of thing that should be open for editing by all. ^ "Modern Software Experience : Webtrees - web genealogy".^ "Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter : WebTrees - a New Web-based Genealogy Program".^ "SourceForge blog : A new start." Retrieved.^ "SourceForge blog : Some good news: SourceForge removes blanket blocking".^ "SourceForge blog : Clarifying 's denial of site access for certain persons in accordance with US law".^ "PhpGedView forum thread : Future of PGV".^ "PhpGedView forum thread : PGV blocked in Cuba, Syria, etc".^ publication date: 29 July 2022 retrieved: 30 July 2022.The day version 1.0.0 of webtrees was released, Tamura Jones reviewed and compared Webtrees with PhpGedView. On 26 July 2010, a month before version 1.0.0 of webtrees was released, Dick Eastman, who publishes Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter, introduced webtrees as "the wave of the future." In late 2005 the first one, called Genmod, was created. webtrees is the second fork of PhpGedView. Webtrees is a fork of PhpGedView, it was created in early 2010, when a majority of active PhpGedView developers stopped using SourceForge ĭue to issues with exporting encrypted software. It is compatible with standard 5.5.1- GEDCOM files. It requires a web server that has PHP and MySQL installed. Webtrees is a free open source web-based genealogy application intended for collaborative use. Partial translations for Yiddish, Galician, Indonesian, Romanian, Serbian and Japanese. Arabic, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (GB, US), Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Lithuanian, Korean, Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk), Persian, Polish, Portuguese (BR, PT), Russian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tatar, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.
