webtrees is a free

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genealogy application intended for collaborative use. It requires a

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that has

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and

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installed. It is compatible with standard 5.5.1-

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files.

History

''webtrees'' is a

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PhpGedView PhpGedView is a Free Software, free PHP-based web application for working with genealogy data on the Internet. The project was founded and is headed by John Finlay. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License, GPL-2.0-or-later license. Ph ...

, it was created in early 2010, when a majority of active PhpGedView developers stopped using

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due to issues with exporting encrypted software. ''webtrees'' is the second fork of PhpGedView. In late 2005 the first one, called Genmod, was created. On 26 July 2010, a month before version 1.0.0 of ''webtrees'' was released, Dick Eastman, who publishes Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter, introduced webtrees as "the wave of the future." The day version 1.0.0 of ''webtrees'' was released, Tamura Jones reviewed and compared Webtrees with PhpGedView.

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