Several months ago, my dad and I started a family web site
(http://members.home.com/allingham-capp) with genealogy information on
it. I wasn't happy with any of the web page generators, so I wrote my
own in perl. It took GEDCOM information that my dad exported out of
Family Tree Maker, and produced web pages in the format that we wanted
(it merged the data in with our own template). The perl script got more
complicated, and perl code has a tendancy to get rather ugly after a
while. At the same time, I kept finding errors in the GEDCOM files that
I needed to correct.
I switched to python, which was a bit more maintainable for me, and
ended up putting a glade/gnome front end on it so I could explore the
information, and fix some of the problems.
The recent activity on the genes list, including the screenshot mockups
comments, have kind of convinced me that I should put this up so that if
anyone likes any of the ideas, they could be used.
Just as a note: This is not a competitor to genes. It is my own hack
which I never intended for anything but my own amusement and purposes.
It runs on a flat file format (XMLish, because it is easy to parse), not
a database. The internal data model is a simplified distortion of
GEDCOM, and it can import a subset of GEDCOM. It is incomplete and full
of bugs.
However, if anyone is interested in looking at it, I could probably be
convinced to make it available.
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Don Allingham
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