[thelist] Re: OT - OS Genealogy software?

[Garth Hagerman]

> Slightly off-topic here, but does anybody have any advice about open 
> source,
> free, genealogy software? Web-based, preferably.
>
> I've poked around Sourceforge and Googled -- I'm really fishing for 
> user opinions.

I had hundreds of hours invested in putting my family tree together 
with an offline shareware program which has an html export function. It 
produced a hopeless mess  in the guise of a web site. Fortunately, it 
could also export a standard GEDCOM format file. After much research 
and experimentation, I finally settled on  PhpGedView ( 
http://www.phpgedview.net/ ) .  The good thing about PhpGedView is that 
it works. I was able to import my GEDCOM file and have an editable, 
accessible family tree with a minimum of fuss. The not so good thing is 
that it's more complicated than it really needs to be; it has many 
features I'd never want or use. I would design my own system, but I 
can't make heads or tails of the GEDCOM format; even when it's 
converted into a MySql database, it's gobbledeegook to me.


       for whatever it's worth
       Garth

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