Webtrees
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{{Infobox software
| name = webtrees
| screenshot = W124.png
| caption = webtrees 1.2.4
| developer = Greg Roach
The webtrees team[http://webtrees.net/index.php/en/our-team-en The webtrees team]
| author = Greg Roach and John Finlay (PhpGedView)
| released = {{Start date and age|2010|08|26}}{{Cite web |url=http://wiki.webtrees.net/Release_History |title=webtrees Wiki:History |access-date=2010-11-07 |archive-date=2010-12-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101202042104/http://wiki.webtrees.net/Release_History |url-status=dead }}
| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q309656|P348|P548=Q2804309}}
| latest release date = {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|Q309656|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}
| latest preview version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q309656|P348|P548=Q51930650}}
| latest preview date = {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|Q309656|P348|P548=Q51930650|P577}}
| language = Arabic, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (GB, US), Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Lithuanian, Korean, Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk), Persian, Polish, Portuguese (BR, PT), Russian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tatar, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. Partial translations for Yiddish, Galician, Indonesian, Romanian, Serbian and Japanese.
| language count = 36
| programming language = PHP, JavaScript
| genre = Genealogy software
| license = GPL-3.0-or-later
| website = {{URL|webtrees.net}}
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webtrees is a free open source web-based genealogy application intended for collaborative use.
It requires a web server that has PHP and MySQL installed.
It is compatible with standard 5.5.1-GEDCOM files.
History
webtrees is a fork of PhpGedView, it was created in early 2010, when a majority of active PhpGedView developers stopped using SourceForge{{cite web|url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpgedview/forums/forum/185165/topic/3549640| title=PhpGedView forum thread 2010-02-10: PGV blocked in Cuba, Syria, etc.| accessdate=2010-11-11}}{{cite web|url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpgedview/forums/forum/185165/topic/3558977| title=PhpGedView forum thread 2010-02-18: Future of PGV| accessdate=2010-11-11}}
due to issues with exporting encrypted software.{{cite web|url=https://sourceforge.net/blog/clarifying-sourceforgenets-denial-of-site-access-for-certain-persons-in-accordance-with-us-law/| title=SourceForge blog 2010-01-25: Clarifying SourceForge.net's denial of site access for certain persons in accordance with US law| date=25 January 2010| accessdate=2010-11-11}}{{cite web|url=https://sourceforge.net/blog/some-good-news-SourceForge-removes-blanket-blocking/| title=SourceForge blog 2010-02-07: Some good news: SourceForge removes blanket blocking| date=8 February 2010| accessdate=2010-11-11}} webtrees is the second fork of PhpGedView. In late 2005 the first one, called Genmod,{{cite web|url=http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpgedview/forums/forum/185165/topic/1372794| title=SourceForge blog 2005-10-24: A new start...| accessdate=2010-11-11}} was created.
On 26 July 2010, a month before version 1.0.0 of webtrees was released, Dick Eastman, who publishes Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter, introduced webtrees as "the wave of the future."{{cite web| url=http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2010/07/webtrees-a-new-webbased-genealogy-program.html| title=Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter 2010-07-26: WebTrees - a New Web-based Genealogy Program| accessdate=2010-11-11| archive-date=2014-02-04| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140204120950/http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2010/07/webtrees-a-new-webbased-genealogy-program.html| url-status=dead}}
The day version 1.0.0 of webtrees was released, Tamura Jones reviewed and compared Webtrees with PhpGedView.{{cite web|url=http://www.tamurajones.net/Webtrees.xhtml| title=Modern Software Experience 2010-08-26: Webtrees - web genealogy| accessdate=2010-11-11}}
References
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External links
- {{official website|webtrees.net}}
- {{GitHub|fisharebest/webtrees|Webtrees Repository}}
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