PottsNet IT Solutions

We specialise in the provision of hosting for your family genealogy.  (Sample Site Here) PhpGedView is a revolutionary genealogy web application that allows you to host your own online family tree.  You can use it to view and edit your genealogy in your web browser. PhpGedView has full editing capabilities, privacy functions, can import from GEDCOM files, and supports multimedia like photos and documents. PhpGedView also simplifies the process of collaborating with others working on your family tree. Your latest genealogy information is always on your website and available for others to see.

Traditional Genealogy Problems

Traditionally, you run a genealogy program on your home computer and enter all the information you collect. Several people may be doing exactly the same thing. At some point you may find you have links to everyone's genealogy trees and you go ahead and update your tree with this new information.

This manual process is error prone, time consuming, and is hard to decide which data to keep, merge, or discard.  Also relying on other researchers to update you on their progress is ineffective.  They may not have the time or willingness to keep more than a few people updated  and they have to guess what changes would be of interest to you.   This problem is solved by putting up your own online family tree.

Working Together

As the solution PhpGedView solves these problems by keeping your genealogy data online and allowing you to edit it. Pages and reports are generated dynamically, so your website is always up-to-date. It also means that data can be searched, making it easy to find the information you are looking for.

Promoting Online Collaboration

No more swapping GEDCOM files around and getting confused what versions you are trying to merge. Because your data is accessible and can be edited online, multiple people can work together on the same up-to-date data in order to expand and enhance your online family tree.

Alternatively, you can each own your own tree and then create links to everyone's trees when you find overlap. Collaboration allows you to prevent duplication of work through planning and sharing resources.  Whenever changes are made you have the option to review the changes before making them permanent, modify the edits or undoing them completely.

Keeping Data Private

PhpGedView has privacy features that allow you to set "sensitive" data to be viewable only by specified registered users.  You can also designate other data to be viewable by anyone accessing your website.  You choose when and how data is displayed and protected.