Open Source Genealogy Software

GenealogyJ is a viewer and editor for genealogic data, suitable for hobbyist, family historian and genealogy researcher. GenJ supports the Gedcom standard, is written in Java and offers many views like family tree, table, timeline, geography and more.

PhpGedView is a revolutionary genealogy program which allows you to view and edit your genealogy on your website. It has full privacy functions, can import from GEDCOM files, and supports multimedia. It also simplifies family collaboration.

GDBI is a genealogy program integrator. It includes an editor and the lifelines report language. It interfaces to multiple GEDCOM databases and is most popular as a PhpGedView client. At the core is a Java API to simplify adding databases and editors.

HuMo-genealogy is an open-source server-side genealogy program, that dynamically displays genealogical data from a MySQL database as a website with numerous reports and charts. Webmasters can do online editing and users may choose from several languages.

Genealogy Software. Geneotree is a gedcom files PHP viewer, full dynamic on the Web. Main features : dynamic trees, cartography & stats. Many PDF reports, statistics. Special consanguinity and cousins lists. Large files management & optimized ergonomy.

Ancestris is a genealogy program written in Java. It works under any operating system, Windows, Linux, MacOS. Ancestris is developed under GNU General Public License. Ancestris is a genealogy software that closely respects the GEDCOM 5.5 standard which will allow you to work on files that are reliable and that you can exchange and share without losing data. In addition to the editors (Ancestris comes with two editors: a GEDCOM editor and a standard one), it offers many views like tree view, geographic view, chronological view, browsers, tables: individuals, families, etc.. and numerous reports. It offers an opportunity to expand its capabilities and adapt it to your needs and desires thanks to plugins.

LifeLines is a genealogy program to help with your family history research. Its primarily strengths are its powerful scripting language and the ability easily import and export information in the GEDCOM format.

Familiar is cross-platform Family Tree management (Genealogy) Software using QT. It supports viewing/editing file tree using drag-drop in multiple ways. Events allow you to define events in any number.

phpmyfamily is a dynamic genealogy website builder allowing geographically dispersed family members to co-ordinate and share research. Users can import and export GEDCOM files, upload images and document transcripts and monitor changes to individuals.

Note: Genmod is still operational and is updated to recent and supported PHP versions. Please checkout the project activity or changelog in the files. Due to a limited number of users it's kept in beta stage. Feel free to download and run the lastest version from SVN! Genmod introduces a new era in genealogy. The philosophy behind Genmod is that your genealogical information is accessed in a natural way: search -> select -> present. All this with a fast and reliable program. Join us as we move forward into history

Arbol3D is a very simple genealogic program writeen in Java (Spanish). You can edit info (name, sex, dates of birth, death, marriage, etc...) for individuals, add/remove photo, import and export GEDCOM data and more... The program uses a text file as database!

GeneaPro is a multi-user, cross-platform Genealogy database program based on the GenTech Genealogical Data Model. Written in Java using the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP), Hibernate persistance, and SQL/JDBC databases (HSQLDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL).

A personal genealogy application for use on (primarily) Linux systems. Data is read from a GEDCOM file and shown in a GUI. This project is still in alpha, so any help is welcome.

The Gedcom parser library is a C library that provides an API to applications to parse and process arbitrary genealogy files in the standard gedcom format.

This converter bridges from the .ahn file format into GEDCOM 5.5.1, It's a command-line tool written in Java. AhnConvert allows family data, laboriously grabbed decades ago surviving into state-of-the art genealogy software products. The software "Familien Chronik" by Reiner W. Dudde was a genealogy software published by Data Becker as part of the "Goldene Serie" series, back in the 1990's. Especially in Germany this tool penetrated the market to some extent. Generating a project and filling in all relatives and ancestors resulted in an .ahn file. Unfortunatelly, this format cannot be imported by any of the current genealogy software. On the other side, GEDCOM can be read without problems by most of today's programs.

A cemetery register maintenance web application.

FinFamily is an application for managing your genealogical data. The java application is swing based with Webstart option. It uses embedded H2 database or PostgreSQL database for storage. FinFamily has extra features for Finnish genealogy but is not limited to Finland.

Target is develop import and export filter for various data base systems from and to GEDCOM and GedXML (the XML specification of GEDCOM). The GEDCOM data format is prepared by "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" (also known as Mormone)

A Java app for the entry, storage, and networking of genealogical information. Unlike most other genealogical database programs, Genealogy uses the rich GENTECH model rather than a custom one or GEDCOM, and can network remote genealogical databases.

A program for displaying graphical information in a visually appeasing way.

Where History Begins is a web application for a private family web site focused on writing and sharing family history and integrating that history with genealogy.

@rbre uses X3D to let people create, visualize, browse and share genealogical data, by using 2D individual icons assembled in 3D family trees. @rbre will include P2P functions for sharing.

Arboreum is an XML based platform independent genealogy program designed for managing complex genealogical relationships and data sets. Features include import/export of GEDCOM 5.5 formated data and HTML based data navigation.

Atavi is an interactive genealogical data visualization tool. It uses XSLT to transform XML data into SVG (Scable Vector Graphics) images. Deploy it as a Java servlet and explore visualizations from a browser that supports SVG. GEDCOM import is planned.

Bitnets instantiates and operates on graphs and subgraphs of large complex networks, such as kinship networks. Bitnets consists mainly of a java library, a number of use examples and an interactive interpreted language interface.