Webtrees Explained

webtrees
Developer:Greg Roach
The webtrees team[1]
Author:Greg Roach and John Finlay (PhpGedView)
Released:[2]
Operating System:Windows--->
Language:Arabic, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (GB, US), Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Lithuanian, Korean, Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk), Persian, Polish, Portuguese (BR, PT), Russian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tatar, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. Partial translations for Yiddish, Galician, Indonesian, Romanian, Serbian and Japanese.
Language Count:36
Language Footnote:[3]
Programming Language:PHP, JavaScript
Genre:Genealogy software
License:GPL-3.0-or-later

webtrees is a free open source web-based genealogy application intended for collaborative use.

It requires a web server that has PHP and MySQL installed.

It is compatible with standard 5.5.1-GEDCOM files.

History

webtrees is a fork of PhpGedView, it was created in early 2010, when a majority of active PhpGedView developers stopped using SourceForge[4] [5] due to issues with exporting encrypted software.[6] [7] webtrees is the second fork of PhpGedView. In late 2005 the first one, called Genmod,[8] was created.

On 26 July 2010, a month before version 1.0.0 of webtrees was released, Dick Eastman, who publishes Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter, introduced webtrees as "the wave of the future."[9]

The day version 1.0.0 of webtrees was released, Tamura Jones reviewed and compared Webtrees with PhpGedView.[10]

Notes and References

  1. http://webtrees.net/index.php/en/our-team-en The webtrees team
  2. http://wiki.webtrees.net/Release_History webtrees Wiki:History
  3. Web site: Translation status . lanchpad.net . 2013-06-23.
  4. Web site: PhpGedView forum thread 2010-02-10: PGV blocked in Cuba, Syria, etc.. 2010-11-11.
  5. Web site: PhpGedView forum thread 2010-02-18: Future of PGV. 2010-11-11.
  6. Web site: SourceForge blog 2010-01-25: Clarifying SourceForge.net's denial of site access for certain persons in accordance with US law. 2010-11-11.
  7. Web site: SourceForge blog 2010-02-07: Some good news: SourceForge removes blanket blocking. 2010-11-11.
  8. Web site: SourceForge blog 2005-10-24: A new start.... 2010-11-11.
  9. Web site: Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter 2010-07-26: WebTrees - a New Web-based Genealogy Program. 2010-11-11.
  10. Web site: Modern Software Experience 2010-08-26: Webtrees - web genealogy. 2010-11-11.