Randy Schmidt on 3 Aug 2006 18:43:54 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] OT, but applicable -> Photo Family Tree


Sweet! Thanks!

On 8/3/06, Malcolm J Harwood <mjhlists-plug-20060801@liminalflux.net> wrote:
On Thursday 03 August 2006 13:13, Randy Schmidt wrote:

> One of the benefits of rolling my own is I don't want/need a ton of
> features, and I don't want the data to be rolled up in a proprietary
> format. I also want it web-based because I am a data accessibility
> snob. If I did make it public as a hosted app, I would make it so that
> people can export the photos and metadata in a form that is easy to
> manipulate.

There are a couple of existing web based apps that use the standard GEDCOM
format (which is mostly portable, some apps seem to have their own extensions
but the base data is portable).

Geneweb (http://cristal.inria.fr/~ddr/GeneWeb/en/index.html) is the one I've
used, and transfering between that and Gramps (offline app) worked fairly
well.

> Other people in our family have made family trees, but nobody ever
> gets to see them because it is in a windows program on their computer
> at home.

Most genealogy apps should export GEDCOM, so you can probably get that info
from them to build your own.

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