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Introduction

PhpGedView is a revolutionary genealogy program which allows you to view and edit your genealogy on your website. PhpGedView has full editing capabilities, full privacy functions, can import from GEDCOM files, and supports multimedia like photos and document images. PhpGedView also simplifies the process of collaborating with others working on your family tree. Your latest genealogy information is always on your website and available for others to see.

Traditionally, you run a genealogy program on your home computer and enter in all of your information. With the data on your computer, you have a couple of problems. First, how do you share the data with your relatives? Second, how do you synchronize your data with your relatives when they make changes on their computers?

Traditional genealogy programs allow you to share your data on the internet by exporting it from the program to HTML pages. However, this creates thousands of files that are difficult to manage and even harder to find the data in. These types of websites are also difficult to update because anytime you make a simple change in your genealogy program, you then have to create all of the HTML files over again. With HTML pages you also have to worry about privacy issues.

Traditional Internet Genealogy

PhpGedView solves this problem by keeping the genealogy data online. This means that you can always access your latest genealogy data from any computer anywhere in the world that has the Internet without ever creating an HTML page. This also means that you can dynamically create reports and search the data, making it easy to find the information you are looking for. PhpGedView will also automatically hide or show private information based on who you allow to have access to it.

Traditional genealogy programs do not allow for easy collaboration. If you want to work with relatives on the same data, you could export your data to a GEDCOM file and email that file to your relative. They could then import it into their genealogy program, make their changes and email it back to you. In the meantime you have updated other data and perhaps received GEDCOM files from other relatives. Now you have a nightmare trying to match and merge everyone's data.

PhpGedView solves this problem by allowing you and your relatives to edit the data online. This means that all of your relatives are working on the same data and there is no need to match and merge the data. This makes it easier to collaborate on research and prevent the duplication of work. Whenever changes are made, you have the option of reviewing the data submitted by others and editing or undoing changes.

PhpGedView Internet Genealogy

PhpGedView is Open Source and is proud to be hosted by SourceForge.net. Because it is open source and licensed under the GNU Public License, if you don't like something about it, you can change it, or submit a bug or feature request and let the developers change it. PhpGedView is also FREE. There is no cost whatsoever to use the program, but you can make a donation to help support the development of the project.

History

Quote by PGV founder, John Finlay: "I decided to develop phpGedView because I wanted to update the genealogy area on my web site and decided to look around for a dynamic GEDCOM to HTML converter. I looked at few programs, but was sadly disappointed at the design and layout of them. This led me to begin creating my own. I soon released the first version on SourceForge in June 2002. "

PhpGedView has been one of the fastest growing projects on SourceForge. In June 2003, after only a year of existence, PhpGedView made the SourceForge Top 10 most active list.

PhpGedView has greatly evolved from its infancy as a website viewer into a fully functional genealogy application. This evolution has taken place over time based on the feedback of thousands of users, and thousands of development hours from many different programmers.

Developers

John Finlay ( yalnifj ) - Founder and Project Manager, Developer
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If you would like to become a developer on the project, please review the Contribution page for more information.

Contributors :

Laurie Lewis - Hosting and maintenance of the PGV Wiki site.
Tom Haws - Maintenance of the PGV Wiki site.
David Bendory - Concept and first instance of the privacy module
Marcus Vorwaller - Icons and imaging
Arne Eckmann - Donated PHPLauncher to the project
Max Westen - Image Module
Ricardo Lago - Xenea Theme
Willem Bastein - Cloudy Theme
Eden - SimplyGreen Theme
Jeff Taylor, Erik Bent, Jim Carey, Steve Lowmaster, Juergen Bach, Lars Farm, and many others - These are the beta testers, bug finders, bug fixers, and code submitters who have helped phpGedView progress so quickly.

Translations

Thanks to the Open Source community, PhpGedView has been translated into more than 20 different languages. Below is a list of the languages supported by PhpGedView and the translators who were involved in creating the translation. The number in parenthesis is the version number that the languages are updated for. You should look for language updates in the "Patches" section of the SorceForge.net project page for PhpGedView. If you would like to discuss the translations of PhpGedView, please visit the Translations forum. If you would like to contribute to the translation work, go to the translations forum to get in contact with the other translators of your language.