I know that it's about as off topic as we can get around here, but I found a rather nice Family Tree builder (PHP/MySQL) online a few days ago and took my stab at my family's roots (we have a large list that my Aunt Barb and Uncle Pete made up when they converted to be mormon's); well in short the software that I was using not only took all of the informaiton in an hour (111 records in an hour, go fig) but I can also go to my son and look at a list (on both sides) as far back my great grandfather... Not only that but I can go to the Ancestery section and view it as much as 8 generations back...

The cool thing is, the script does all of the linking, all I really did was input data on who is related to who and how (mother/father, sister/brother, etc) and it linked them all as the exact relation, it came out quite nice.

The software itself cost a measly $5, it's called TUFaT (The ULTIMATE Family ancestry Tree) ; you can see my tree here .

The cool thing about this script is that if you have numerous familys to create tree's for (such as a friend or acquantence) you can run multiple seperate trees on one install... Additionally it also has a backup script built into it...

It's a really nice piece of software for such a low cost; the cost is mainly what made me sway from coding one myself as I'd spend much more time than what $5 could have gotten me... PLUS it also allows you to export files to GEDCOM format which is readable from most geneology programs that you can download...

Nice work


There's another nice script out there: "The Next Generation" geneaology software:

http://tng.lythgoes.net/software.php

It's a little more money ($27), but has lots of features and is easily customizable too. I'm using it on a family site I hope to eventually open to my family

Wow, that is pretty entertaining and looks nice (even nicer than mine lol); you have a demo open of it by chance?

It's pretty nice, to see a demo, go here :

http://lythgoes.net/genealogy/demoframes-public.html

and click on the template links in the upper right to see how it looks with the 4 default templates to choose from

Very interesting.. I see that they support GEDCOM imports and exports; just like my current; I may shell out $27 for a license just to compare the two with the data I have ...

I do like their templates a bit more; as well as the way data is outlined; any idea how they are with support? Mine sucks with the solution i went with; supposidly they only do user to user support which is a complete pain...

Also, can you delete users in yours? for whatever reason I can't delete users or even edit the gender of users once they've been added (somehow i listed my niece as being a male)..

I believe it's all editable by the admin, I haven't tested with other users.

They have support forums tho the author isn't very active. He does update the script pretty regularly tho:

5.0.0 - 14 May 2005
5.0.1 - 24 May 2005
5.0.2 - 6 June 2005
5.0.3 - 21 June 2005
5.0.4 - 14 Jul 2005

There are integrations for 'nuke' and mambo modules, etc.

Interesting; I had taken and emailed the admin and got a response within half an hour, which is pretty impressive considering that I emailed him at 9a and had expected to at least wait until the evening...

I'm all in all quite impressed and will likely be converting (not like I paid much for my original solution)...

He emailed me back quickly when I re-did his scripts into xhtml and css - he didn't use them, but he emailed me back to thank me pretty quickly

Yeh, I tend to like to tear things apart ... It does seem like it'll be a fun project and I definately like the way his script outlays multiple marriages (such as my mother with 6 children over 4 relationships)...

I wanted to see how my data would look from my GEDCOM output from MyFamilyTree so I asked if he could throw up a demo and had one up within 10 minutes; the support is definately pretty good! That and just about anything that i could have asked for was made possible quite quickly...

I definately enjoy that I can assign a password to a certain portion of my tree (or even a secondary tree) for people to be able to update! definately will save time .

looks nice but this kind of applications must be a desktop-app instead of a web-app IMHO... You are limited with browser capabilities...

true, tho I think the good points about being able to share with far-flung family members far outweighs the drawbacks there. I've got Ayres peeps all over the US

The benefits Burak are thus, you can import and export from a GEDCOM database, so you could use an application such as MyFamilyTree to import the database, make any changes, then export them to the web application...

I did find one thing that I liked though; I get to specify steppatents and adopted parents with the script allen is using... it's very promising...

Version 5.0.5 released today

Lol cool; I haven't had the spare cash to buy myhself a license; I'm anticipating it sometime this month though...

Like clockwork

5.0.6 - 3 September 2005

Welp, I just got my TNG license; rather fast processing...

I'm going to work on getting it installed tonight then toying with it tomorrow then building a theme ...

version 5.0.7 released

version 5.0.8 released now

You mean I have to upgrade again? hehehehe...

not so fast... 5.0.9 released today