Genealogy on the web

Phpgedview allows one to share their genealogy on the web for family, relatives and the world to view. It's GPL (free) and very powerful way to edit and collaborate. This is a quick and dirty install guide. The official install guide is here. Sites running phpgedview here.


If you have PAF then it's easy to convert your .paf file to .ged (gedcom)


Select File | Export


Choose Other GEDCOM 5.5


Choose any name you like


Use any ftp client you wish to upload PhpGedview after unzipping it.


File permissions need to be adjusted for config.php file.


Change permissions to 777.


Go ahead and set your configuration settings to your liking.


Create an administrative user.


Choose Upload Gedcom


Browse to your gedcom file you have on your hard disk.




Each configuration has built-in help so I'm not going to explain it here but say that the Enable Privacy and Enable Online Editing are extremely important options. Privacy protects the living from revealing personal data and makes it viewable only to family, relatives who you give an account to. Online editing is something you can enable for others to do to collaborate your work.


These are the options I choose.


It'll take a bit to import the update the family names.


Choose Manage Gedcoms and Edit Privacy