Genealogy

phpGedView

PhpGedView is open source genealogy software that is designed to run on a web server. It can be used to collaborate between users even if they use different operating systems on desktop computers.

I am running it on this site. If you would like to share genealogy data or want to try out a demo, please contact me.

PhpGedView web site: http://www.phpgedview.net/

You can download the program for free from the PhpGedView web site or from Source Forge https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpgedview/.

Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhpGedView

What if you don’t have web hosting?

MySQL, PHP, and Apache web server comes pre-installed on most recent Macintosh computers. For Microsoft Windows desktop computers you may install XAMPP. This will allow you to use PhpGedView on your local computer like a desktop application, but you won’t be able to collaborate with others the way you can if you have web hosting — details here. Most ISPs don’t allow you to run a public web server through their connection.

It is worth shopping around for web hosting. You can often get hosting with a lot of features for less than $10 a month. This is less than the cost of many commercial online sites plus you can run other software (such as a blog or photo gallery or an interactive site to advertise your business) too.

GEDCOM info

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEDCOM

Ask.com – simple instructions for sharing genealogy data using GEDCOM files: GEDCOM 101

Local Resources

Armstrong County Historical Society
Mildred Lankerd-Thomas Genealogical Library
300 North McKean Street – P.O. Box 735
Kittanning, Pennsylvania 16201-1345
(724) 548-5707

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Shall we meet?

Based on interest at the talk I gave at the Armstrong County Genealogy Library on July 11, 2010, I would like to propose a series of informal meetings to further explore how to use the software as well as administration and installation. Meeting places would need to have a computer with an internet connection and possibly WiFi or an ethernet hub to connect laptop computers.

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