A Gedcom viewer web app.

Ged-go is written in Django with d3.js visualizations, based on the idea that a genealogy website and gedcom viewer can be beautiful and intuitive.

Most of the web-based genealogy software out there is pretty ugly and difficult to navigate in. There are often silly little icons and information is presented in hard to read tables. Instead, the philosophy of Ged-go is to have fewer features, but to present a gedcom in a clear and well designed way.

Gedgo's current features include:

• Individual view
  • Easy to read podded display
  • Pedigree charts
  • Timeline of events coincided with major world historical events
• Gedcom view
• Basic search
• Blog
  • Tag people in a blog post, and those posts automatically appear in that person's individual view.
• Page for displaying documentary videos
• Email contact form
• Secure login and Admin pages
• Gedcom parser and update mechanism
• Family view
• Automatic thumbnail creation

Ged-go is under active development. Future features:

• Descendancy charts
• Gedcom statistics and network graph
• Advanced search
• Multiple templates

Installation is generally not for the faint of heart. More complete instructions will follow, but the essential idea is:

• Install Django
• Install dependencies: pip install -r reqs.pip
• Include Ged-go as an installed app in your Django project, also add 'south' and 'djcelery'
• Update database with: python manage.py syncdb --migrate --noinput
• Put all photos etc. into a flat file in your media directory
• Make sure your various email settings are set for the comment form
• To add a new gedcom file, use the manage.py command:

$ python manage.py add_gedcom /path/to/your/file.ged

To update your gedcom, you can either use the manage.py command, passing it the integer ID of the gedcom object you'd like to update, for example:

$ python manage.py update_gedcom 1 /path/to/your/file.ged

Or you can turn on a Celery worker server and distribute tasks to it via a web interface accessible from the "gedgo/<gedcom_id>/update" URL.

Copyright (c) 2012 Gregory Thole

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