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David_Lewis · Post by **David_Lewis** » 05 Jul 2012 16:23

I have been very impressed with Family Historian version 3 since I bought it over 7 years ago. Some of you will know that I have used it not only to record my own family history but also to construct a tree of all the descedants of the Electress Sophia. By also recording those that are illegitimate, or descended from an illegitimate person, or catholic or married a catholic or are dead I have also been able to obtain a complete line of succession.

My tree now contaimns a wealth of information about nearly 18000 indivuduals.

I would love to be able to share that information with others in a usable way On Line. and I would love it to be interactive as well.

Ive been using some of the standard queries and been fascinated by the results they throw up and also (with the help of you experts) been playing
with generating my own quries.

So the sort of thing I am hoping to acheive is a website where people could look at the trees and move up or down through them maybe selecting their own levels of details and number of generations.

Also to be able to generate lists of descendents from preset queries ,some standard and some custom. for example someone might want to know how many of her descendants were born in say the USA.

Now I'm pretty sure thats not possible with version 3 and maybe not with version 5 so what is the way forward.

Any advice help greatly appreciated as always.

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YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 05 Jul 2012 18:21

With such large database your best bet would be a dynamic site tool like TNG or similar

http://www.fhug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id ... ds:website

David_Lewis · Post by **David_Lewis** » 05 Jul 2012 18:41

That does look interesting Jane but is it only available from the USA?

YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 05 Jul 2012 18:55

No you can use it any where, you just need to find yourself some hosting which can provide MySql and PHP. I use TNG for my Family History site.

David_Lewis · Post by **David_Lewis** » 05 Jul 2012 19:59

I should have said is it only available for purchase from the US or can I buy it from a supplier in the UK?

bgriffiths · Post by **bgriffiths** » 05 Jul 2012 20:23

I think you will find TNG is only available via the developer's website. I use it myself and as Jane says it is the way to go for large databases.

As an alternative (and free!) there is Webtrees, which seems to be gaining a following, the successor to phpGedView. Again it is PHP/mySQL driven. Opinion at present seems divided between the two. I used phpGedView many years ago, but can't really comment on Webtrees one way or the other. TNG does the job for me

Brian

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