Open Source Java Genealogy Software

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

GedBas4all (GedBas is a short form of "Genealogical Database System") is a program to organize genealogical data. The information will be stored in xml documents. Modularization will hopefully make it possible to extend the programm easily.

GenealSimple is a simple way to generate, manage and view a family tree. It is a web-based application realised as a Java applet with MySQL database access. The focus lies on the simple, user friendly and intuitive GUI.

JFamily is a browser and editor for genealogic data. The data are displayed in a graphical family tree.

GEDPrint is a small tool to create visual representations from GEDCOM files. This can include family trees or ancestor tables. The result can be viewed on screen or send to a printer. GDBI support is planned but not implemented, yet.