webtrees

What is webtrees?

Webtrees is a free, open source, website-based, collaborative genealogy application. It works with standard GEDCOM files and is installed on a web server using PHP and MySQL (or Postgres, SQL Server, or SQLite). Webtrees is a fork of PhpGedView, created in early 2010 when a majority of active PhpGedView developers stopped using SourceForge. It is the second fork of PhpGedView, with the first one, called Genmod, created in late 2005. On July 26, 2010, a month before version 1.0.0 of Webtrees was released, Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter introduced Webtrees as "the wave of the future." Version 1.0.0 of Webtrees was reviewed and compared to PhpGedView by Tamura Jones on the day it was released. Webtrees version 2.0.0 was released on December 7, 2019, and it runs on PHP 7.1 - 7.4

Highlights

• ilizes standard GEDCOM files for data storage and sharing
• Supports multiple database backends including MySQL, Postgres, SQL Server, and SQLite
• Allows collaborative editing and management of genealogy data by multiple users
• Provides a web-based interface for easy access and contribution from any device