HuMo-genealogy is a
free
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Concept
* Freedom, having the ability to do something, without having to obey anyone/anything
* Freethought, a position that beliefs should be formed only on the basis of logic, reason, and empiricism
* Emancipate, to procur ...
and
cross-platform web application for displaying and editing
genealogical
Genealogy () is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their lineages. Genealogists use oral interviews, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinsh ...
data on the
Internet. HuMo-gen is written in
PHP and is under the
GPL-3.0-only license. HuMo-gen supports
UTF-8 and is
bi-directional.
The project was founded in 1999 by Huub Mons in the Netherlands. It is now developed by Huub Mons and Yossi Beck with contributions of other users.
Since March 2010 HuMo-gen is hosted on
SourceForge.
Features
HuMo-gen is installed on a web server and uses a
MySQL database to store the genealogical data. The webmaster can build entire family trees on-line with HuMo-gen's editing menu or choose to upload
GEDCOM files that were created with an external genealogy program. A range of genealogical data can be recorded, such as names, dates, places, sources, witnesses, aliases and notes. One can also attach photos, documents and video clips.
As HuMo-gen is a web-based application, it may be installed on a PC on top of an Apache/PHP
stack
Stack may refer to:
Places
* Stack Island, an island game reserve in Bass Strait, south-eastern Australia, in Tasmania’s Hunter Island Group
* Blue Stack Mountains, in Co. Donegal, Ireland
People
* Stack (surname) (including a list of people ...
HuMo-gen Manual
Download the detailed manual, including the explanation for use of HuMo-gen with XAMPP such as XAMPP
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The webmaster can control the data that will be visible to the end-user, by creating several user groups. The default group is "guest" which requires no login and will usually have the most stringent privacy
Privacy (, ) is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves, and thereby express themselves selectively.
The domain of privacy partially overlaps with security, which can include the concepts of a ...
settings. Other groups can have different privacy settings that may allow for more details to be shown.
End-users may search the database and create several types of textual and graphical genealogical reports. Textual reports include ancestor, descendant and outline reports. Some of the reports may be exported as PDF
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. The program also includes a relationship calculator and Google maps integration. As of October 2011, end-users can choose from among 16 display languages. The program also allows the end-users to choose from among several skins.
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