- WEBTREES SOFTWARE INSTALL
- WEBTREES SOFTWARE GENERATOR
- WEBTREES SOFTWARE MANUAL
- WEBTREES SOFTWARE SOFTWARE
WEBTREES SOFTWARE INSTALL
The package you receive is then simply unzipped to install the software.
WEBTREES SOFTWARE SOFTWARE
The software is downloadable from using the server’s wget command. The Webtrees software is not included in Gentoo’s portage tree, but installation is simple nonetheless. Here’s what I went through to get it running. Debugging the SELinux permission errors took some time, and got much easier once I learned how properly troubleshoot. Now that I have a server machine running Linux and a LAMP stack accessible via the internet, I’m ready to install the Webtrees software.
WEBTREES SOFTWARE MANUAL
I might, however, lock down read access to signed up users only, and include some kind of manual approval for sign up (again, not sure if Mediawiki can do this). That said, I probably want to approve any new pages or edits - I was hoping Mediawiki supports this. I don't want to have too much of a barrier to submitting information, because the whole point of the project is to try and figure this stuff out.
I sort of agree with you in terms of edit level - I don't think I'd want Wikipedia level of open editing, but the basic fact is that a lot of information about my family simply doesn't exist in official records (Romany Gypsy heritage, my father's birthday is a guess at the general date of his birth rather than based on hospital records so could be out by up to a couple of months either way), so collaborative information is about the best I can do. Sooner or later, you'll want to use your data elsewhere, and for that, you need a GEDCOM export.
MediaWiki does poorly with pulling meaning out of structured and relational data, such as genealogical data. Webtrees - this is probably closest to what you originally asked for.Īs for MediaWiki, don't use it. Looks like they also have a version that supports GEDCOM's
WEBTREES SOFTWARE GENERATOR
Most desktop genealogy programs have some sort of site generator built in. The Master Genealogist (TMG) - I've seen this praised many times, but was the labour of a single programmer who retired over five years ago. Other genealogical programs (I haven't used any of them): For a website generator, I've used GigaTrees previously, although I'm considering writing my own site generator to better control the output. no database) because it is cheap and easy to host (free on GitHub Pages) and it won't break if I let it sit for months at a time. Personally, I like to create a static site (i.e. (GEDCOM files are the de facto standard for moving around genealogical information.) From here, pick a website generator that can consume your GEDCOM export. Pick yourself a (desktop) genealogy program (I like RootsMagic, and even their free version is very capable) the only hard requirement is that it can import and export GEDCOM files. If you're okay with the online version being static, then your options open up considerably.
Now multiply that by thousands of people over hundreds of years across multiple continents.Īs well, to find a good genealogy program is hard, and so to find one that runs on a web server is a considerable limit on a very narrow field. To give you but one example: my grandmother's sister completed the death certificate when her father (my great grandfather) died, but put down the wrong birthdate. The reason being that the records are often lacking or contradictory, and so I find me helpful to be the one making the decisions as to what to present as the "official version". I'm not convinced genealogy is the sort of thing that should be open for editing by all.
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