Webtrees

webtrees is a free open source web-based genealogy application intended for collaborative use.

Webtrees
webtrees 1.2.4
Original authors	Greg Roach and John Finlay (PhpGedView)
Developers	Greg Roach The webtrees team[1]
Initial release	August 26, 2010; 15 years ago (2010-08-26)[2]
Stable release	2.2.4[3]  / 4 August 2025
Repository	github.com/fisharebest/webtrees
Written in	PHP, JavaScript
Available in	36 languages[4]
List of languages Arabic, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (GB, US), Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Lithuanian, Korean, Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk), Persian, Polish, Portuguese (BR, PT), Russian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tatar, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. Partial translations for Yiddish, Galician, Indonesian, Romanian, Serbian and Japanese.
Type	Genealogy software
License	GPL-3.0-or-later
Website	webtrees.net

It requires a web server that has PHP and MySQL installed.

It is compatible with standard 5.5.1-GEDCOM files.

History

webtrees is a fork of PhpGedView, it was created in early 2010, when a majority of active PhpGedView developers stopped using SourceForge^[5][6] due to issues with exporting encrypted software.^[7][8] webtrees is the second fork of PhpGedView. In late 2005 the first one, called Genmod,^[9] was created.

On 26 July 2010, a month before version 1.0.0 of webtrees was released, Dick Eastman, who publishes Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter, introduced webtrees as "the wave of the future."^[10]

The day version 1.0.0 of webtrees was released, Tamura Jones reviewed and compared Webtrees with PhpGedView.^[11]