Webtrees
title: "Webtrees" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["free-genealogy-software", "free-software-programmed-in-php", "software-forks", "software-using-the-gnu-general-public-license"] topic_path: "general/free-genealogy-software" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webtrees" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Webtrees |
| screenshot | W124.png |
| caption | webtrees 1.2.4 |
| developer | Greg Roach |
| The webtrees team | |
| author | Greg Roach and John Finlay (PhpGedView) |
| released | |
| latest release version | |
| latest release date | |
| latest preview version | |
| latest preview date | |
| <!--- | operating_system |
| language | Arabic, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (GB, US), Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Lithuanian, Korean, Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk), Persian, Polish, Portuguese (BR, PT), Russian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tatar, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. Partial translations for Yiddish, Galician, Indonesian, Romanian, Serbian and Japanese. |
| language count | 36 |
| language footnote | |
| programming language | PHP, JavaScript |
| genre | Genealogy software |
| license | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| website | |
| :: |
| name = Webtrees | screenshot = W124.png | caption = webtrees 1.2.4 | developer = Greg Roach The webtrees team | author = Greg Roach and John Finlay (PhpGedView) | released = | latest release version = | latest release date = | latest preview version = | latest preview date = | language = Arabic, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (GB, US), Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Lithuanian, Korean, Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk), Persian, Polish, Portuguese (BR, PT), Russian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tatar, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. Partial translations for Yiddish, Galician, Indonesian, Romanian, Serbian and Japanese. | language count = 36 | language footnote = | programming language = PHP, JavaScript | genre = Genealogy software | license = GPL-3.0-or-later | website = webtrees is a free open source web-based genealogy application intended for collaborative use.
It requires a web server that has PHP and MySQL installed.
It is compatible with standard 5.5.1-GEDCOM files.
History
webtrees is a fork of PhpGedView, it was created in early 2010, when a majority of active PhpGedView developers stopped using SourceForge 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.
References
References
- "The webtrees team".
- "webtrees Wiki:History".
- "Translation status". lanchpad.net.
- "PhpGedView forum thread 2010-02-10: PGV blocked in Cuba, Syria, etc.".
- "PhpGedView forum thread 2010-02-18: Future of PGV".
- (25 January 2010). "SourceForge blog 2010-01-25: Clarifying SourceForge.net's denial of site access for certain persons in accordance with US law".
- (8 February 2010). "SourceForge blog 2010-02-07: Some good news: SourceForge removes blanket blocking".
- "SourceForge blog 2005-10-24: A new start...".
- "Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter 2010-07-26: WebTrees - a New Web-based Genealogy Program".
- "Modern Software Experience 2010-08-26: Webtrees - web genealogy".
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