Free genealogy software
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 7:15 am
OK, I'll kick this one off with a few suggestions for software.
I tried one called PHPGedView, and I didn't like it very much. I forget what I didn't like about it. Now, I mostly use GeneWeb, and I sometimes use Lifelines, because it has a wide variety of report formats. Rather than enter data into two programs, I export a gedcom file from GeneWeb then import it into Lifelines to generate the reports.
All of the software I mentioned is free and is open source, and I think they all have versions for windows, macintosh and linux. You can download them from sourceforge.net.
Open source means that the program code is available, and if you are inclined to do so, you can write code to alter the programs. If you're not the kind of person to write code, you can just join the mailing lists and tell the developers what features you'd like to see, and maybe they or someone else will write the code for it.
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I tried one called PHPGedView, and I didn't like it very much. I forget what I didn't like about it. Now, I mostly use GeneWeb, and I sometimes use Lifelines, because it has a wide variety of report formats. Rather than enter data into two programs, I export a gedcom file from GeneWeb then import it into Lifelines to generate the reports.
All of the software I mentioned is free and is open source, and I think they all have versions for windows, macintosh and linux. You can download them from sourceforge.net.
Open source means that the program code is available, and if you are inclined to do so, you can write code to alter the programs. If you're not the kind of person to write code, you can just join the mailing lists and tell the developers what features you'd like to see, and maybe they or someone else will write the code for it.
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