Linux & UNIX based genealogical freeware programs and projects:
FTree (Free)
* Linux, X-Windows GUI based family tree data display/manipulation
* Reads and writes standard GEDCOM 5.5 file format files.
* Available free for non-commercial use Gedcom Estimator [freeware]
The GEDCOM Estimator is a program that estimates missing dates in a genealogical database (or family tree if you like). It is not a complete genealogy system and will not replace whichever program you are using to keep your genealogy databases today. However, you can use it as an extra tool to estimate missing dates. gedcomTOHTML [Freeware]
gedcomToHTML is a free program for converting a GEDCOM genealogical database into HTML files suitable for publishing on your web page. You will need a copy of the perl programming language if you want to use gedcomToHTML.
Features include:
• Mini ancestry and descendants chart for each individual
• support for different languages
• image files of individuals
• the ability to make information on living persons private Genealogy (freeware)
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. GenealogyJ(free)
GenealogyJ (in short GenJ) is a full-featured standalone Java application that can handle all of your genealogic information (GEDCOM compliant). It provides different graphical components for working on your Family Tree. Genes(freeware)
Personal genealogy database application for UN*X boxes. GeneWeb (freeware)
GeneWeb is a genealogy software program with a Web interface. It can be used off-line or in a Web environment. It uses very efficient techniques of relationship and consanguinity computing, developed in collaboration with Didier Rémy, research Director at INRIA.
Gnu
Family Tree (freeware)
GNU Family Tree is a family tree project for Linux. It will contain a
library to read and write gedcom files and eventually a slick front end.
gRoots (freeware)
gRoots is a gtk/gnome based genealogy research tool. It can be used to manage, display, and query information relating to human genealogy. jFamily (freeware) (hard to find the developper)
Java object based genealogy application jLifeLines (freeware)
jLifeLines is a genealogy program based on the popular LifeLines project. Its goal is to help with your family history research. Its primary strengths are its powerful scripting language and the ability easily import and export information in the GEDCOM LAF: Linux Ancestral File (freeware)
The Linux Ancestral File (LAF) is a system in which one can track their genealogy with ease. It is meant to be much like Personal Ancestral File (PAF) available from http://www.familysearch.org only written to perform well on Linux. My Family Tree (freeware)
Genealogy libraries for importing/exporting gedcom and other major formats for Delphi/Kylix projects. Also a GUI using these libraries will be made. OnceRemoved [free. Not an application but a web-service]
OnceRemoved offers a means to graphically record a genealogy and to share that information (and the task of recording it) with others. Now admittedly, some typing is still required, but the bulk of describing who is related to whom is accomplished visually by the so-called "drag 'n drop" mechanism. The other advantage of OnceRemoved is the sharing of information which is intrinsic to the World Wide Web. This aspect permits other members of a family (or families, depending on their interest) to add information and new relationships to branches of a genealogy in which they are most knowledgeable.
It is still a work-in-progress. phpGenealogy (freeware)
This is a PHP/MySQL application to integrate into your website for displaying genealogy data. It imports from gedcom files and is modeled after GeneWeb Some Sort of Family Tree (freeware)
This is a "Family Tree" application that can represent a families genealogy. It allows for delegation of athority to each branch / leaf so that users can update the information. Uses PHP4 and MySQL. The Prognatus Project
Prognatus is a cross-plattform genealogy project. But it is more than just genealogy. Prognatus will provide routines for maintaining general historic information, searchable thru different view angles, and more! Relatives [US$34]
The software includes tools to compose either vertical or horizontal family trees and a Java™ applet to show the trees on Web-pages.
Click here to view an example of a genealogical tree, as it appears in Relatives Java™ applet.
The better view in Netscape Navigatot ver 4.06 or later rather than Internet Explorer because of the greater reliability of the former in graphics capabilities (probably due to a bug in the IE code).
How it works:
Using Relatives tools you create family trees and save them in files. Upload the files on your Internet Provider's server. Upload there Relatives Java™ applet as well as a special html page that will manage the applet. Tell everybody the link to that page. That's all! Now everybody can see your family tree!... The Suffolk System of Recording Family History [Not an application, but wordprocessor templates. US$ 10]
There are some extremely good genealogy programmes available today, but they all have one flaw - you must be at your computer to fully utilise their features.
The Suffolk System of Recording Family History uses a word-processor to store your data, and, as a result of some "lateral thinking" by its author, allows you to take ALL your relevant information with you in an A4 ring binder. Your records are easily edited and updated and utilise a brilliantly simple, yet incredibly effective, cross-referencing method.
The Suffolk System of Recording Family History is taken from "Family History the Suffolk Way”, a collection of writings by my late father, Bill Suffolk, on elementary family history research and the use of a word processor in recording and indexing the results.
Written 10 years ago, the system he devised and the advice he has to offer is simply unbeatable, and, although he would have been absolutely amazed at today’s technology, lends itself perfectly to distribution via the Internet.
Originally written for the Amstrad PCW series and published in booklet form, I have updated his work to fit the electronic age and have re-created his templates for use with MSWord (with an option for other word- processors).
You may already have gathered a large amount of information and could simply use a better way to store it - I doubt if you will find a better method than “the Suffolk way”. Not only will all your data be easily accessible and easily “updateable” within your computer, you also have – and this is the real power of our way - an extremely portable system which you can take wherever your research takes you!
(Another minor detail is that our system is also considerably cheaper than any Family History application! OK, so we don't supply 20 CD-Roms, but we are simply showing you an excellent, useful - and usable - way to record the information you have now and will subsequently gather in your future research.)
Quite simply, our system takes the conventional way of drawing out lines of descent and turns it on its side! You can display up to 15 generations – quite legibly! - across a sheet of A4 paper. ...top Treeview
TreeView is a simple program for displaying phylogenies on Apple Macintosh and Windows PCs. It has the following features:
* runs on both the Apple Macintosh and Windows Pcs, using almost identical interfaces
* reads many different tree file formats (including NEXUS, PHYLIP, Hennig86, NONA, MEGA, and ClustalW/X)
* supports standard the TrueType and Postscript fonts available on Macs and PCs
* supports native graphics file format (PICT on Macintosh, Windows metafile on Windows) for copying pictures into other applications, and for saving graphics files
* print preview
* can print multiple trees per page, and one tree over more than one page
* has drag-and-drop facility for easy opeing of files
* Web-based online help
* tree editor WebbedGed [freeware]
The free Gedcom to HTML Converter
WebbedGed is a Perl program that creates HTML files from a GEDCOM file. WebbedGed originated from Dan Pidcock's excellent gedcomToHTML program, v1.45.
WebbedGed is free software licensed under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, Copyright © Paul Rawlins, 1999. Basically you can modify, distribute, or even sell it -- provided the source code is made freely available.
You can see what the output looks like here . Features:
* Pedigree view showing up to 5 generations.
* Family Group Sheet view showing grandparents, parents, all spouses, and all children.
* All person-links show vital information when the mouse is over the link.
* Notes that contain an http:// reference are displayed as hot-links. Where Family Grows (freeware)
Where Family Grows is a family-centric web application intended to promote open communication between members of a family. The core of the software is based on Genealogy and collaboration on a family tree. UNIX-based genealogical freeware programs: GED2HTML[US$20]
GED2HTML is a program that inputs genealogical data in GEDCOM format, and outputs a collection of HTML files suitable for presentation on the World Wide Web. The input format it accepts is based on the GEDCOM 5.5 standard. The output produced consists of HTML files containing the individual data, an index suitable for quickly locating an individual by name, an auxiliary surname index with links to the first individual with each surname, and a special index file suitable for use by automatic indexing programs. . The output is highly configurable. Each data file can contain a single individual or multiple individuals. Either a hierarchical or a flat index can be specified. Files can be organized into subdirectories or a flat collection. In addition, the HTML output is programmable, so that the format of the HTML files can be changed by the user. GenealogyJ (free)
GenealogyJ (in short GenJ) is a full-featured standalone Java application that can handle all of your genealogic information (GEDCOM compliant). It provides different graphical components for working on your Family Tree. Genes (free)
A personal genealogy database application for UN*X boxes GeneWeb (free)
GeneWeb is a genealogy software program with a Web interface. It can be used off-line or in a Web environment. It uses very efficient techniques of relationship and consanguinity computing, developed in collaboration with Didier Rémy, research Director at INRIA.
GeneWeb, free software with a GNU license, is available for Unix, Windows and Mac (OS X). Lifelines
Lifelines
Lifelines Quick reference My Family Tree (freeware)
Genealogy libraries for importing/exporting gedcom and other major formats for Delphi/Kylix projects. Also a GUI using these libraries will be made. OnceRemoved [free. Not an application but a web-service]
OnceRemoved offers a means to graphically record a genealogy and to share that information (and the task of recording it) with others. Now admittedly, some typing is still required, but the bulk of describing who is related to whom is accomplished visually by the so-called "drag 'n drop" mechanism. The other advantage of OnceRemoved is the sharing of information which is intrinsic to the World Wide Web. This aspect permits other members of a family (or families, depending on their interest) to add information and new relationships to branches of a genealogy in which they are most knowledgeable.
It is still a work-in-progress. ...top Relatives [US$34]
The software includes tools to compose either vertical or horizontal family trees and a Java™ applet to show the trees on Web-pages.
Click here to view an example of a genealogical tree, as it appears in Relatives Java™ applet.
The better view in Netscape Navigatot ver 4.06 or later rather than Internet Explorer because of the greater reliability of the former in graphics capabilities (probably due to a bug in the IE code).
How it works:
Using Relatives tools you create family trees and save them in files. Upload the files on your Internet Provider's server. Upload there Relatives Java™ applet as well as a special html page that will manage the applet. Tell everybody the link to that page. That's all! Now everybody can see your family tree!... The Suffolk System of Recording Family History [Not an application, but wordprocessor templates. US$ 10]
There are some extremely good genealogy programmes available today, but they all have one flaw - you must be at your computer to fully utilise their features.
The Suffolk System of Recording Family History uses a word-processor to store your data, and, as a result of some "lateral thinking" by its author, allows you to take ALL your relevant information with you in an A4 ring binder. Your records are easily edited and updated and utilise a brilliantly simple, yet incredibly effective, cross-referencing method.
The Suffolk System of Recording Family History is taken from "Family History the Suffolk Way”, a collection of writings by my late father, Bill Suffolk, on elementary family history research and the use of a word processor in recording and indexing the results.
Written 10 years ago, the system he devised and the advice he has to offer is simply unbeatable, and, although he would have been absolutely amazed at today’s technology, lends itself perfectly to distribution via the Internet.
Originally written for the Amstrad PCW series and published in booklet form, I have updated his work to fit the electronic age and have re-created his templates for use with MSWord (with an option for other word- processors).
You may already have gathered a large amount of information and could simply use a better way to store it - I doubt if you will find a better method than “the Suffolk way”. Not only will all your data be easily accessible and easily “updateable” within your computer, you also have – and this is the real power of our way - an extremely portable system which you can take wherever your research takes you!
(Another minor detail is that our system is also considerably cheaper than any Family History application! OK, so we don't supply 20 CD-Roms, but we are simply showing you an excellent, useful - and usable - way to record the information you have now and will subsequently gather in your future research.)
Quite simply, our system takes the conventional way of drawing out lines of descent and turns it on its side! You can display up to 15 generations – quite legibly! - across a sheet of A4 paper. WebbedGed [freeware]
The free Gedcom to HTML Converter
WebbedGed is a Perl program that creates HTML files from a GEDCOM file. WebbedGed originated from Dan Pidcock's excellent gedcomToHTML program, v1.45.
WebbedGed is free software licensed under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, Copyright © Paul Rawlins, 1999. Basically you can modify, distribute, or even sell it -- provided the source code is made freely available.
You can see what the output looks like here . Features:
* Pedigree view showing up to 5 generations.
* Family Group Sheet view showing grandparents, parents, all spouses, and all children.
* All person-links show vital information when the mouse is over the link.
* Notes that contain an http:// reference are displayed as hot-links. For more free- and shareware programs, visit:
Louis Kessler's Genealogy Program Links
GEDCOM to HTML Conversion
Genealogy Software General tools Yapbib[free]
Yapbib Annotated Personal Bibliography. This program allows you to manage your body of literature research, include annotations per author and per literature-entry, organize and categorize the entries for your specific projects, perform queries on the entries, and export contents on the bibliograpy database in BibTex form. Yapbib uses no external database to keep the software small and manageable. It's database is in ASCII form that is easily read into other programs or modified by hand. It also stores a cached copy of each article in PDF format making YapBib your "one-stop-shop to your bibliography! RISC OS -based genealogical programs: Ancestor+[59 UK Pound]
Ancestor+ has been designed to be very simple to use, even by people who are not computer experts. It's incredibly easy to enter data and link people into 'families'. Because of the way it can store and index huge amounts of 'external' data of almost any type it is ideal for people who want to compile complete family histories rather than just genealogical data.
As the main database is held in memory it not held back by slow drive access, so you can use it on any machine from a 1 Mb A3000 upward. A hard disc is not essential but is recommended if you intend to store more than a minimal amount of data about each person. The database can hold records for 20,000 individuals
Ancestor+ Can create HTML trees with separate x-referenced files for each Person and Family which makes it much easier for people who want to put data on their web sites. You can incorporate pictures into the HTML files, converting them to JPEG for portability if required. ...top | 
