Genealogy for maniacs!
Geneac is a sitebuilder for people who are interested in sharing their genealogy.
If you are interested in using Geneac, check out the User Guide to the left.
If you want to start hacking on Geneac, take a look at the CONTRIBUTING.md file in the repository. Then you can check out the developer quickstart.
Motivation
Geneac is web application that allows you to host your genealogy on the Internet. It is comparable to PhpGedView, but it is much less mature. The focus of Geneac is to be a host for your data, research, and digital artifacts, presented in a format similar to a wiki.
The technical motivation of Geneac is to create a free, open-source genealogy platform that allows you to control all of your own data. Geneac can be self-hosted with minimal difficulty: it uses SQLite and local file storage, meaning that you can run it in a containerized setup. Data import and export features exist to Geneac’s own format, but import from GEDCOM is planned.
History
Geneac is a product written mostly by me, Mitchell Rysavy. I started working on a website to store and share my genealogy research while I was an undergraduate student at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. Originally, the project was called ‘familiar,’ and I used this as the basis for a capstone project in the Honors program.
You can see the original paper and poster on the University of Minnesota Library’s Digital Conservancy.