[clug-talk] Open Source Geneology?

[Robert Campbell]

Have you checked out phpgedview at http://www.phpgedview.net/

I downloaded it and installed it once, seemed to work fine for me, but
it wasn't what I wanted.  For my purposes, gramps is better.

On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 21:22 -0600, Shawn wrote:

> Having done a little more research, it appears that GEDCOM is a text 
> based file format, and has limitations/errors.  It also appears that the 
> standard geneology tools out there don't quite do what I'm after.
> 
> So, my choices are:
> 1) use an existing tool and deal with it's templates and limitations.
> 2) re-purpose another tool to do what I'm looking for, and deal with the 
> inherent limitations as they come up.
> 3) write my own solution.
> 4) forget about the project.
> 
> I'm favoring option #3, but do not really have a clear picture of the 
> requirements (yet).  So, anyone want to hammer out the requirements for 
> a multi user, web based geneology system with me?  Maybe with these 
> requirements we can better evaluate an existing system and save some 
> development time.
> 
> Shawn
> 
> Shawn wrote:
> > Over the years I've taken a quick look at some of the geneology tools 
> > out there.  Thus far, the best I've found is gramps. 
> > (http://gramps-project.org/)  Has anyone found anything better?
> > 
> > What I'm really after is a tool that allows easy management of the data 
> > by family members scattered around the globe.  I know I can "tweak" 
> > Drupal or Mambo to do the basics of what I need, but then you loose the 
> > geneology specific features of a tool like Gramps.
> > 
> > If there isn't such a tool out there, anyone know where I can get futher 
> > details on the GEDCOM file format that gramps (and other tools?) seem to 
> > use/support.  I'm thinking that if I can write a tool to create pages 
> > from a common data file format I might be able to easily do what I'm 
> > looking for, and yet change to any tool that may be better.
> > 
> > Thanks for any tips.
> > 
> > Shawn
> > 
> > (of course, I'm doing some web searches as well, but had to start 
> > somewhere.. :)  )
> 
> 
> 
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