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What software do you all use? (self.genealogy)

submitted 1 year ago by eyolf to c/genealogy

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How do you manage your trees? Myself, I use webtrees. The interface may be a bit "old" and the handling of media in particular could have been better, but it's an online solution (so I have my tree available all the time), it's open source, it's 100% standards compliant, and the community is wonderful, so ... What is your favourite programme?

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[–] EfreetSK 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use Gramps, I needed some software and as a Linux user the options were limited. People mostly suggested Gramps so I went ahead with it, actually I never tried anything else when I think about it. I use my NAS to synchronize the save files so I'm sort of "mobile" but for years I missed the option to share family tree with my family. That Webtrees looks great for this! I definitely need to give it a try.

Regarding Gramps options - it really has everything, even more than what I'd probably need. I certainly wouldn't call it user friendly but when you get used to it it's great. Some features I really like are backups on each program close, filters and exports are really robust, the amount of info you can set for every person is really amazing (although I guess that's the case for every gedcom-compliant software).

What I don't like are Places/Locations handling which feels not robust enough - like to this day I haven't figured out how to handle split of Austria-Hungary there and I tried multiple times. And also family tree export to pdf is sometimes wild - putting persons at random and the only way to correct it is to manually play with Graphviz

I even thought of doing some pull requests in their git but I'm not sure since ... well I'll just be honest - I'm scared of joining OpenSource projects, they always sound so hostile. But maybe it's time to give it a try

https://gramps-project.org/

[–] eyolf 2 points 1 year ago

I always have Gramps installed on my laptop, and occasionally I import my ged-file, either just to see how Gramps has evolved, or because of some specific task that it does better than webtrees – mostly exports, coming to think of it.

Locations is a gedcom-inherent problem. It is partly solved in webtrees through a plugin which allows one to have a geolocation with several different names, countries, etc. Works quite well, I think.

I even thought of doing some pull requests in their git but I’m not sure since … well I’ll just be honest - I’m scared of joining OpenSource projects, they always sound so hostile. But maybe it’s time to give it a try

Could be the case (the attitude/response I hate the most is when one points out a serious flaw or shortcoming, and some dev responds: "why don't you do this instead?"), but on average I think most of them are nice. Go ahead and try!