Looking for free on-line genealogy site

(originally posted to s.g.misc, but just found this group)

Firstly, apologies if this question has been raised recently. I've been
trawling through this group for at least, well, 5 minutes and haven't
been able to find an answer yet.

I'd like to be able to collaborate with my half-Polish family and the
rest of my English family in putting together a family tree, and it
strikes me that the easiest way to do this would be with an on-line
tool. We could then all fill in the gaps, and more information is
likely to get input this way.

Dave Hinz...

Paul Blair...

This is really for Bob and Dave, but may have wider interest.

There is a parallel "product" named GENMOD. At first glance, it is
PhpGedView (PGV) in new clothes, but it is a bit more, really, although
most of the code comes from PGV. The improvements seem to be designed to
speed things up a bit.

I'm not sure what has happened - the forum is locked, and the latest
beta release won't allow me to import a GEDCOM. Apart from that,
everything is fine!

I mention it here as a heads up, I have no connection with it.

phpgedview is a great tool for collaborative efforts. Requires a
webserver with a Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP infrastructure (very common
these days, sometimes called "LAMP").

Also, we're not going to keep trampling over each others edits as we
would if we keep sending files to each other to update.

Dave Hinz...

Right. This is all done live, by a browser from wherever you are, in
such a way that as many people can be working on it as you want, at any
time, without worrying about who has what part checked out or whatever.
Ideal for a collaborative project.

Also, I'd like this to be free or reasonably priced.

Dave Hinz...

It's open-source. If you don't have hosting let me know, I know some
folks who can do it.

For now, I just want to be able to go up to my geat grand parents and
(some of the way) back down again. I want to get this done soon before
my remaining grandparents pop their clogs (this is probably not the
correct genealogical term for such an event, I hope that hasn't
offended anyone ;-)

Dave Hinz...

Hasn't offended me. Wish I could talk to a few of mine (I'm looking at
_you_, great-grandpa, the evasive about his past one)

any pointers please?

Dave Hinz...

If what I've described about PHPGedView sounds intriguing, web-search up the
website or ask questions here, several of us have experimented with
and/or use it. And I can help with the hosting questions and that side
of things.

I'm figuring I'll learn as I go along, but I can see it's not going to
be an easy task putting together all the complex relationships.

Dave Hinz...

Just start where you can and deal with the complexity as it comes up.
By the time you get far back enough for things to get strange, you'll
probably have enough screen time with the tool to be comfortable.

Dave Hinz

Steve Button
(used to be Steve Balazy if anyone is interested, but that wasn't my
fathers surname at birth either, he was a Borkowski)

Hugh Watkins...

tribalpages is loved by some
but is not fully searched the web for

f/fgeorge...

just found it thanks, BUT too many databases are passworded

Hugh Watkins...

they include living people

Hugh Watkins...

and which is why rootsweb is better

Hugh W

wc.rootsweb.com is brilliant at finding cousins

one of you must regualarly update the master ged file

Hugh W