{"id":465,"date":"2009-01-02T23:27:58","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T04:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/?p=465"},"modified":"2009-01-02T23:27:58","modified_gmt":"2009-01-03T04:27:58","slug":"web-based-genealogy-software-any-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/2009\/web-based-genealogy-software-any-recommendations\/","title":{"rendered":"Web-based genealogy software &#8211; any recommendations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" title=\"Desperation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/photos\/photo\/3089767791\/desperation.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3011\/3089767791_96a3470b24_m.jpg\" alt=\"Desperation\" width=\"240\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a> This past year we moved away from most of my family and added a new leaf to the family tree.\u00a0 This has inevitably turned my thoughts to family history.\u00a0 As expected from a guy who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/2008\/what-happens-when-you-ask-the-internet-for-baby-name-suggestions\/\">let the internet vote for his baby&#8217;s name<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/2008\/i-love-hospitals-with-wifi-or-twittering-childbirth\/\">Twittered the delivery<\/a>, I&#8217;m not going to be happy typing up a plain old document and mailing it out to family members.<\/p>\n<p>I want to start collating a family history and collecting stories, photos, and other artifacts and I want to do it with a web app so that I can share with family spread all around the country.\u00a0 Though I don&#8217;t have time for any hard-core genealogical research right now I&#8217;d like to set up a good framework in case anyone else in family catches the bug and finds themselves hunched over microfiche at the local LDS church.<\/p>\n<p>So two of my main concerns are usability and openness.\u00a0 Openness means having complete access and ownership of the data (so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/2008\/the-ethics-of-web-apps-or-ever-try-to-get-a-list-of-your-contacts-from-facebook\/\">Facebook family tree apps are out<\/a>) and compatibility with standard genealogical file types.<\/p>\n<p>It would also me nice if it were written in a language I know like PHP, Java, or even Python in case I get the urge to write plugins or change the interface.<\/p>\n<p>I know of two systems that might fit the bill, <a href=\"http:\/\/phpgedview.net\/\">PhpGedView<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geneotree.com\/\">GeneoTree<\/a>, but I&#8217;m hoping to get some suggestions and recommendations before I start installing lots of stuff on my web server.\u00a0 Has anyone done a project along these lines, or played around with this kind of software?<\/p>\n<p>Please leave any input in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past 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