[CALUG] Open Source Genealogy

[Randal T. Rioux]

Funny you should mention this. My father has been tracking our family
forever, and lately spun out of control including over 120,000 entries
for Acadia region descendants (I'm from Maine, family from Quebec/Nova
Scotia). I tried PhpGedView and it is a read only system (he wants to
update it online). It is too large for Family Tree Maker and I've
started scoping out writing my own software (PHP or J2EE). I don't have
time to start it yet, and would be willing to pay for the right solution
instead.

But there is none!

Please update the list if you find anything good out there. The main
problem we have is dumping the FTM proprietary files into GEDCOM format.
That's the code I've been working on. FTM crashes when opening really
large .ftw files.

Randy


Rajiv Gunja wrote:
> Hello,
> Currently, my family tree is on Geni.com and it has grown really big and
> many people have concerns to put their information online on a 4rd party
> website and I would like to build our own website which is similar to
> geni.com <http://geni.com> with most of its features.
> 
> I did find couple of open source software which are similar to it -
> PhpGedView <http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpgedview>  and phpmyfamily
> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyfamily> which are ok to begin
> with, but I would really like more choices than only these two.
> 
> If there is a commercially available PHP/software which has looks and
> feel of geni.com <http://geni.com>, I dont mind buying it.
> The basic requirements I have are: 1. should be editable by end user
> similar to geni.com <http://geni.com>, 2.should support at least 50,000
> in the tree. Currently, our tree is almost 30,000.
> 
> Please let me know if you have any ideas. Thanks