![]() ![]() I just can’t praise this application enough based on my experience having used several different genealogy application in the past. The list of features just goes on and in addition you can even increase them with add-on custom modules and themes which are available for download.įinally I would like to add that webtrees developers are constantly making improvements to the solution with added features and fixes to meet the wishes from the ever increasing community of webtrees users today. Importing and exporting GEDCOM data is an easy task and managing GEDCOM data online by adding, modifying, merging or repairing data is just few of it’s features as well as many available options for displaying or reporting the data. It fully supports the GEDCOM standard and is even able to handle non standard tags. Better than expected.Īfter several months of using webtrees genealogy open source application I can highly recommend this solution for geneology enthusiast for its extensive features and how customisable it is as well as providing an easy online collaboration with other relatives in establishing family trees even internationally because you can choose from over 60 languages. Excellent forum help available.īiggest Con: It was intimidating getting started but I am glad I did. Greg Roach (the author of webtrees) runs a dedicated web server and will provide a webtrees server install and maintenance (backups, maintenance, etc.) for a very reasonable price, there is no reason to not leave ancestry now if you have been looking for a way out.īiggest Pro: Privacy if you want, or not. If you are not comfortable setting up website software don’t worry, there is a solution for that. The webtrees forum is very friendly and helpful to all people at different levels of web and genealogy experience, if you are looking for a better way then you have found it right here with webtrees. Webtrees takes some learning but is logically set up and lets you control all aspects of your genealogy web presence, each piece of media can have privacy restrictions, or none at all, your choice. Free at last! Even though I had to use Roots Magic as a middle man to get the media, it was well worth it. Webtrees fit the bill, I downloaded our ancestry GEDCOM and 6GB of MEDIA from ancestry to >Roots Magic< (roots magic is the only genealogy program that does that from ancestry) then exported the gedcom from roots magic, then uploaded and imported the gedcom and media to webtrees. I was looking for a way to show our family genealogy on the web both publicly and privatly without being bullied by a big corporation. Sudo cp webtrees-2.x.x.zip /var/This will overwrite the old files without removing your data files and any modules you’ve created).First 6 months of using this wonderful software. So, if webtrees is at /var/to /var/www/html. Upload the zip file to the server with filezilla (an open source ftp client).Ĭopy the zipped file to the same level where webtrees is stored. Sudo touch offline.txt - creates empty fileĭownload the webtrees updated zip file from webtrees. Make your webtrees unavailable by going to your webtrees data directory and creating a empty file named offline.txt.Ĭd /var/www/html/webtrees/data - changes into directory You shouldn’t have to be told this, but a backup strategy is the first thing you should setup when running a website. This is how webtrees recommends manually upgrading.īACKUP EVERYTHING. You’ll be miserable if you do not backup everything before an update. I also have AWS backup the actual server everyday. I also use rsync to download the backup databases and data. ![]() I use cron to automatically backup the webtrees database every day. MAKE SURE EVERYTHING IS BACKED BEFORE DOING ANY UPDATES. Instead, I’m forced to do the update manually. For whatever reason, automatic updating does not work for me. The software is wonderful and is highly recommended.Įvery so often there’s an update. The website uses an open source software named webtrees. ![]()
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