[HN Gopher] Family Echo - Free online family tree maker
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Family Echo - Free online family tree maker
Author : smusamashah
Score : 22 points
Date : 2023-10-10 16:54 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.familyecho.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.familyecho.com)
| kichik wrote:
| Can it import GED files?
| CobrastanJorji wrote:
| I kind of wonder about a really big public version of this.
| Something like a Wikipedia of family tree history, so people
| working on their family's genealogy might meet up with others
| somewhere 5 or 6 generations back and discover some stories going
| back a couple hundred years. I imagine allowing for people to
| fill in little biographies and attach photos or references of
| ancestors.
|
| But such a thing would probably have a bunch of abuse scenarios
| that would be hard to solve for (it's "what's your mother's
| maiden name" as a service, for one), and I'm not sure if they're
| easily solved. But it'd be really cool.
| bmitch2112 wrote:
| https://www.wikitree.com/ I believe is what you are describing.
| It's great. If you have any interest in building your family
| tree this is where I would start.
| xahrepap wrote:
| https://www.familysearch.org/ does exactly this. Only
| information of people who are deceased is viewable outside the
| account of the person who entered the information.
|
| It's run by the LDS Church, so there's a religious tone to
| their marketing. But you don't have to be a member or religious
| to use it.
| CobrastanJorji wrote:
| I'm glad it exists, but I'm not super comfortable encouraging
| everybody in my extended family to give all of their
| information directly to the LDS Church, especially with their
| history of stuff like proxy baptisms of holocaust victims.
|
| But on the other hand, I was just a minute ago wishing that
| this sort of service existed publicly as a Wikipedia-like
| free resource, which is a strict superset of the LDS Church
| having it, so maybe that's unfair.
| WarOnPrivacy wrote:
| I'd agree. Family Search will eventually be understood as the
| authoritative tree.
|
| One challenge with an authoritative tree is when a distant or
| non-relative creates a profile, marks it living and then that
| creator disappears.
|
| A close relative shows up but the profile is locked to the
| creator. The actual relative has to jump thru hoops to get
| access to their own family.
|
| With privacy concerns, I don't know how to handle it better.
| Only that folks might want to avoid creating living profiles
| except for close relatives.
| ghostpepper wrote:
| "Family Echo is provided by Familiality Ltd., a private company
| founded by Gideon Greenspan and based in Tel Aviv. Other sites
| include: Web Sudoku, Magic Baby Names and TrainMyAI."
|
| Sorry but if I don't understand how you make money from my data
| then I'm not putting my data into it
| freitasm wrote:
| I think the "TrainMyAI" tells a lot about how the data might be
| used.
|
| Their Data Policy (1) says nothing about how they use data you
| enter. Only says you can enter as much or as little and who can
| see th data you share.
|
| Big nope.
|
| (1) https://www.familyecho.com/?page=policies
| LVB wrote:
| The last item of the FAQ says, "Family Echo is a free service,
| supported by advertising."
| bradleyjg wrote:
| I haven't found a good program to create a good looking printable
| tree with pictures where available. I ended up using Visio and
| laying out everything by hand but it was a big pain in the neck.
| Isthatablackgsd wrote:
| If you are still looking, I recommend yEd Graph Editor. They
| have a family tree layout you can use. I used it in the past
| and it works great for my needs.
| qingcharles wrote:
| Ugh, I used Visio about 20 years ago to do the same. It seems
| like a smart idea for about an hour, then it isn't :(
| WarOnPrivacy wrote:
| Yeah. I have this issue. I have a stupid amount of names and
| I'd like to print select generations into binders for family.
|
| I don't like any of the options though. It's all non-intuitive
| and/or irrelevant info and/or lots of wasted space on a page.
| SilasHaslam wrote:
| I've used Chronoplex MyFamilyTree with good results.
| https://chronoplexsoftware.com/myfamilytree/
| vkdelta wrote:
| Is there any open source version of such software ? I always to
| map our community and families from specific country.
| ellrob88 wrote:
| 'Gramps' has been recommended to me in the past.
| secabeen wrote:
| Gramps is good, as is the spinoff web version:
| https://www.grampsweb.org/
|
| Gramps Web is distributed as a collection of containers, with
| a provided compose file. It works really well, if you're an
| HN reader with a place to host some containers and an nginx
| proxy for SSL.
| tekla wrote:
| Of course with all Family tree software, I gotta test the thing.
| I don't think you can make incest babies on this software.
| fjfaase wrote:
| For genealogical research you need something more than just a
| tree builder, you need a system to record facts based on
| documents (like birth certificates) and a mechanism to link those
| records (I think person A mentioned in birth certificate C the
| same person as person B mentioned in marriage certificate D). The
| family tree is the accumulation of these the documents and the
| assumptions you made. It is possible that when you encounter a
| new document, you have to drop some of your assumptions, because,
| for example, it does occasionally happen that a person with a
| same (or similar) name is born on the same date in the same city.
| WarOnPrivacy wrote:
| > It is possible that when you encounter a new document, you
| have to drop some of your assumptions, because, for example, it
| does occasionally happen that a person with a same (or similar)
| name is born on the same date in the same city.
|
| Good grief yes. Families with the same surname, with kids born
| in the same order and in the same years. I had a 3 pack of that
| in one NJ town.
|
| Man marries 3x, all named Lilly. Siblings Smith marrying
| Siblings Jones. Second wife adopts first wife's name as their
| nickname. Siblings swapping spouses (divorcing first). Parents
| who reuse the name of a dead child, multiple times. Aging dad
| who remarries daughter-in-law's mom. Women marrying men with
| same surname (some related, some not).
| LVB wrote:
| I wish I could find a self-hostable version of a basic family
| tree like this. The various genealogy apps I've set up have been
| too complicated and off-putting for my extended family. They just
| want to easily browse a family tree and see interesting dates,
| locations, and photos of people. This site looks pretty much at
| the level I'd like, but I don't feel like shoveling my personal
| family data to some random company.
| secabeen wrote:
| https://www.grampsweb.org/
| hooverd wrote:
| That seems like the perfect use-case for overengineering
| something with a graph DB.
| spennant wrote:
| LOL - I started a side project (never finished) that
| leveraged Neo4J and GraphQL and attempted to mimic the
| GedcomX spec.
| spennant wrote:
| https://www.webtrees.net
| LVB wrote:
| That's what I'm using, but the uptake by others isn't good. I
| can't really blame them since it is a fairly heavy app with
| tons of reports and charts.
| sobkas wrote:
| I might be a bit paranoid, but don't provide some random website
| on the internet intimate information about your family. Someone
| might learn about your ancestry at the worst possible moment...
| WarOnPrivacy wrote:
| Family Search is free to join and it's massive. Living profiles
| are obfuscated tho.
|
| Frankly, the people likely to harm me with data are those in
| power - the same people that privacy laws don't apply to.
| Randos are pretty much at the bottom of the threat stack.
| kmonad wrote:
| can the generated tree be downloaded in some common format? I
| could not find any option like that.
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