Genea

Genea allows visually building and editing a family tree online. It consumes and saves genealogy data in the GEDCOM format without any server side components.

Demo

• Genea.app
• Android
• Screenshots

Installation

• Unpack files into directory and serve over HTTPS to have complete control over the version you are running.
• Alternatively, use the Genea.app website without having to ramp up your own server.
• Optionally, host your own Git instance like Gitea or GitLab to privately store your data and make it accessible from multiple devices, or use a free repository with a service like GitHub. You can always directly interact with GEDCOM files as well.

Family tree drawing

Genea uses the Graphviz library compiled into WebAssembly to draw the family tree. It uses a default structure that includes grandparents, parents, partners, siblings and children. An abstraction layer built on top of this allows for easily assigning the right data to the right node.

GEDCOM format

• GEDCOM 5.5.5 Specifications (PDF)
• Grammar
• Sample Files

Implementation of the GEDCOM format in Genea intentionally differentiates itself slightly from the true standard, as it allows a FAM record to contain either two FAM.HUSB or FAM.WIFE records to indicate a same sex marriage. Other types of relationships between people are not supported due to the lack of GEDCOM to specify a gender neutral FAM.PART(NER) record.

Screenshots and video

Family tree

Editing detail

Drawing family tree

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/24693534/133051989-7ae42405-8c21-48f9-85d0-cc8f41586d4e.mp4

Dependencies

• Vue.js
• Graphviz library compiled into WebAssembly
• Materialize