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balanga

Having recently traced my family history going back 300 years, I would like to create something to hold my family tree.

Searching around for tools I came across https://www.grampsweb.org/ but am not sure how this works, and wondered if there is such a thing as a family history skeleton which could be installed in Apache or whatever.

Has anyone come across anything that is worth investigating or can offer any advice on maintaining a family tree?
 
I have used Gramps on Freebsd before its really good

Gramps is a gui application,
no need for apache

Code: 
sudo pkg install gramps

Code: 
gramps-6.0.8                   GTK3-based genealogy program

My ancestors in Wales

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balanga said:
I would like to create something to hold my family tree.
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Webbased: www/webtrees22

Works really well. Also allows you to create various events (birth, baptism, marriage, death, etc). You can also store your references, pictures and whatever else you may have found. I used it for my family tree (I'm stuck somewhere in 1645; 10 generations back).

balanga said:
Would it be possible to convert Gramps into a web based app?
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Should work, as long as you can import/export the GEDCOM data you can basically transfer the genealogy data from one application to another.
 
SirDice said:
I'm stuck somewhere in 1645
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That's very good!
I cannot trace my family back further than the late 19th century.

In Central Europe it's almost certain you cannot trace family trees back more than into the first half of the 17th century.
In the Thirty Year's War the majority of monasteries and churches were plundered and burned down. Almost all the books keeping the records of marryings, baptismals (births were very seldom documented), and funerals of this era and before are almost all destroyed.
Plus in the Netherlands parallel you had the Eighty Year's war with Spain fighting for your independency.
Depending on were you ancestors came from, there is very little chance to trace them back before the 17th century, if they were no nobles, so records have been kept in some castle's chapel.
 
Maturin said:
Plus in the netherlands parallel you had the Eighty Year's war with Spain fighting for your independency.
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Aye. It's a tumultuous time. Love to look up the history of the area where some of my ancestors came from too. To get an idea of the world view they might have had.
Maturin said:
Depending on were you ancestors came from, there is very little chance to trace them back before the 17th century, if they were no nobles, so records have been kept in some castle's chapel.
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Haven't found any nobility, nothing like that. Some interesting jobs but mostly just mundane people. Most have been seaman, a silver smith, and a barber/surgeon. The oldest record I have was a soldier, cavalry. From Zutphen. But yeah, not much hope but I may have some Belgian, and perhaps Spanish links. Haven't spent much time on it lately, should really pick this back up. It's so much fun trying to dig through those old records, then link events to people. Trying to figure out who is who and where they fit in on your family tree.
 
My own geneology search revealed some interesting and infamous family connections in early north america and across the pond in England, but of course every generation back doubles your number of ancestors (assuming no crossovers) so at 16th generation during England's Tudor dynasty I'm looking at 2^16 possible ancestors and way diluted DNA. Yet, portraits from that time period still bear a strong resemblance to people in my mothers extended family.

And yes, records apart from european nobility become very scarce. Here in the states I had more trouble post-(war of northern aggression) trying to link in ancestors because this guy named Sherman decided to burn his way across the south and the reconstruction period left a lot of poverty in its wake.
 
Church Manifests are Open when older than maybe 100 years, you can trace back a long way by them. Needs latin, though.
 
SirDice said:
Webbased: www/webtrees22

Works really well. Also allows you to create various events (birth, baptism, marriage, death, etc). You can also store your references, pictures and whatever else you may have found. I used it for my family tree (I'm stuck somewhere in 1645; 10 generations back).
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Wow.

I guess that makes you feel as though you belong there. Presuming your family is still more or less in the same place.
 
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