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Written by Peter Ikladious
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Tuesday, 15 January 2008 09:32 |
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I have always had a passion for my own genealogy. Several years ago, my cousin-in-law compiled the first family tree for our family. Over the past several years, I have been looking for options to publish the family tree on the web and allow individuals within the tree to manage the information. This would be a much more reliable system than having one person administer everything. Unfortunately, all the solutions I have found (including the more recent applications that integrate within Facebook) are somewhat "trivial" and lack many of the features I would expect. As such, in 2005, I commenced work on the development of a web-based Family Tree system that would have all the features that I required. In late 2007, I launched the site and provided the ability to have updates. To see it now, you can follow the link below. The site features the following: - Secure authentication and login
- Ability for individuals to modify any record
- All changes are recorded, indicating who made the change and when (Wiki-style)
- Data is maintained as a GEDCOM file, so that it can be imported into almost any other genealogy application
- It is possible to start a tree, by importing an existing GEDCOM file
- "Sounds like" search for people's names - To allow for variations in the way people spell their names
- Pure Java (J2EE) implementation - can be installed on any Tomcat server
Having devoted so much time to this endeavour, I have made the decision to open-source all the source code, to give back to the global community. To do that, there are still several things I will need to clean up/fix/etc. I will post updates to this project as I go.
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