Tree Family
Took some time this weekend and converted my old (oooold, haven’t touched it for years) Family Tree Maker family tree file to GEDCOM format. Why? Bringing the family tree to the Internet, that is why.
Installed PhpGedView on my web server, updated many a names and relationships, then sent out some accounts to some family folk so they could have access to the tree.
The most amazing part of all this is that now I can make changes from anywhere in the world. No more buying a program, installing it, keeping it updated, etc. Now it’s all free with multiple user capability. I’m the admin and the limited accounts have capabilities from either read-only to full access. I’ve given them editing capability with final change authorization going through me (don’t want people changing things stupidly or deleting whole subtrees when they get bored).
Best part is that now I don’t have to keep bugging people to give me their info, they can update it all themselves, or at least check it for inconsistencies. Think I’ll donate some $$ to the PhpGedView developers, they have the one of the most active projects on SourceForge (for June ‘06 it was #1), plus gotta support open source software. Gonna test drive it for a few weeks, see how things shape up with it though, but right now it’s thumbs up.
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