Open Source Linux Genealogy Software

Gramps is a genealogy program for Linux, Windows, Mac, and FreeBSD that allows you to easily build and keep track of your family tree. It supports the GEDCOM standard, allows fine grained privacy controls and can generate many different types of reports (descendant trees, graphs, connection diagrams, ....)

GEDKeeper program is developed for work with personal genealogical database. The program is designed for extremely simple and intuitive interface. The program is very easy to install on the computer, fully supports the GEDCOM format, has no restrictions on the number of persons and generations, allows you to generate pedigrees, building several tree species, as well as print and save their images, provides fast navigation, filtering, searching and adding multimedia materials. In addition there is an output of geographic data on Google maps (© Google). The aim of the program is as quick and effective means of conducting personal genealogical database. We invite native speakers to improve the translation of the program on the Crowdin platform: https://crowdin.com/project/gedkeeper Project is published on GitHub, url: https://github.com/Serg-Norseman/GEDKeeper

PhpGedView is a revolutionary genealogy program which allows you to view and edit your genealogy on your website. It has full privacy functions, can import from GEDCOM files, and supports multimedia. It also simplifies family collaboration.

GenealogyJ is a viewer and editor for genealogic data, suitable for hobbyist, family historian and genealogy researcher. GenJ supports the Gedcom standard, is written in Java and offers many views like family tree, table, timeline, geography and more.

HuMo-genealogy is an open-source server-side genealogy program, that dynamically displays genealogical data from a MySQL database as a website with numerous reports and charts. Webmasters can do online editing and users may choose from several languages.

GDBI is a genealogy program integrator. It includes an editor and the lifelines report language. It interfaces to multiple GEDCOM databases and is most popular as a PhpGedView client. At the core is a Java API to simplify adding databases and editors.

Ancestris is a genealogy program written in Java. It works under any operating system, Windows, Linux, MacOS. Ancestris is developed under GNU General Public License. Ancestris is a genealogy software that closely respects the GEDCOM 5.5 standard which will allow you to work on files that are reliable and that you can exchange and share without losing data. In addition to the editors (Ancestris comes with two editors: a GEDCOM editor and a standard one), it offers many views like tree view, geographic view, chronological view, browsers, tables: individuals, families, etc.. and numerous reports. It offers an opportunity to expand its capabilities and adapt it to your needs and desires thanks to plugins.

Note: Genmod is still operational and is updated to recent and supported PHP versions. Please checkout the project activity or changelog in the files. Due to a limited number of users it's kept in beta stage. Feel free to download and run the lastest version from SVN! Genmod introduces a new era in genealogy. The philosophy behind Genmod is that your genealogical information is accessed in a natural way: search -> select -> present. All this with a fast and reliable program. Join us as we move forward into history

phpmyfamily is a dynamic genealogy website builder allowing geographically dispersed family members to co-ordinate and share research. Users can import and export GEDCOM files, upload images and document transcripts and monitor changes to individuals.

View and edit genealogy dynamically on a web site with PHP/MySql. Loads standard GEDCOM files. Includes both standard and tree views, comprehensive searches, themes, privacy module, guest book, GEDCOM download, GENDEX output, photo module, multi-lingual.

Genealogy Software. Geneotree is a gedcom files PHP viewer, full dynamic on the Web. Main features : dynamic trees, cartography & stats. Many PDF reports, statistics. Special consanguinity and cousins lists. Large files management & optimized ergonomy.

LifeLines is a genealogy program to help with your family history research. Its primarily strengths are its powerful scripting language and the ability easily import and export information in the GEDCOM format.

Target is develop import and export filter for various data base systems from and to GEDCOM and GedXML (the XML specification of GEDCOM). The GEDCOM data format is prepared by "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" (also known as Mormone)

FinFamily is an application for managing your genealogical data. The java application is swing based with Webstart option. It uses embedded H2 database or PostgreSQL database for storage. FinFamily has extra features for Finnish genealogy but is not limited to Finland.

GeneaPro is a multi-user, cross-platform Genealogy database program based on the GenTech Genealogical Data Model. Written in Java using the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP), Hibernate persistance, and SQL/JDBC databases (HSQLDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL).

HistoryCal is a practical calculator designed to work with historical dates and calendars. The calculator will allow you to work with many different world calendar schemes and calculate ranges and ages based on these calendars. The calculator also has a script language that allows you to create variations of the built-in calendars: calendars that shift the new year to a different day; hybrid calendars that switch between schemes; local observational calendars that depend on a particular location; year counts that change for specific eras (regnal calendars) and calendars that require adjustment due to subtle differences in calculation.

This is a collection of plugins for Gramps open source genealogy application. These addons extend Gramps functionality with additional reports, gramplets, tools, and views. For more information on Gramps, see http://gramps-project.org/ Addons for the following Gramps series of releases ( 3.2.x / 3.3.x / 3.4.x / 4.0.x / 4.1.x ) source code can be found here: https://sourceforge.net/p/gramps-addons/code/HEAD/tree/ From Gramps 4.2.x series onwards the Addons are available from: https://github.com/gramps-project/addons-source

Build your family tree. Shows entire tree at once, or at least however much fits on the your screen at a time, you can pan around to see the rest. This is a web app that works offline, pretty much like any other program, just save the *.htm file and open in any HTML5 browser like chrome or firefox. Possible plans to add: -some support for *.ged files. -zoom should also be possible -images/sound clips, maybe? -adding lines, so branches can cross

Familiar is cross-platform Family Tree management (Genealogy) Software using QT. It supports viewing/editing file tree using drag-drop in multiple ways. Events allow you to define events in any number.

Toolkit for processing genetic data. Currently supports (command-line): Half-IBD (Identity by descent) aka HIRs - between 2 or any number of files (in distances and cM); RAW2PED, PED2RAW conversions; regions of homozygousity and other converters.

This converter bridges from the .ahn file format into GEDCOM 5.5.1, It's a command-line tool written in Java. AhnConvert allows family data, laboriously grabbed decades ago surviving into state-of-the art genealogy software products. The software "Familien Chronik" by Reiner W. Dudde was a genealogy software published by Data Becker as part of the "Goldene Serie" series, back in the 1990's. Especially in Germany this tool penetrated the market to some extent. Generating a project and filling in all relatives and ancestors resulted in an .ahn file. Unfortunatelly, this format cannot be imported by any of the current genealogy software. On the other side, GEDCOM can be read without problems by most of today's programs.

Arboreum is an XML based platform independent genealogy program designed for managing complex genealogical relationships and data sets. Features include import/export of GEDCOM 5.5 formated data and HTML based data navigation.

A personal genealogy application for use on (primarily) Linux systems. Data is read from a GEDCOM file and shown in a GUI. This project is still in alpha, so any help is welcome.

The Gedcom parser library is a C library that provides an API to applications to parse and process arbitrary genealogy files in the standard gedcom format.

hr2ged is a python program that will transcribe Heredis file in Gedcom. It is available both with a GUI and on command-line. It is code in Python.