GeneWeb

GeneWeb is a genealogy application that provides a lightweight web server and a browser-based UI to manage, view and share genealogical databases. It is implemented in OCaml and designed to handle large numbers of individuals, multilingual content and interactive relationship calculations.

Key Features

• Web-based interface served by an embedded lightweight HTTP server for daemon or CGI deployments
• Native OCaml core with JavaScript/HTML/CSS frontend components
• Import and export support for GEDCOM and GeneWeb GW formats, preserving incompatible data in notes
• Multilingual UI and wikitext-style notes with internal links, images and templates
• Efficient relationship and consanguinity calculators and family graph navigation
• Per-database accounts and per-person access filtering, with configurable privacy rules
• Statistics and timeline views (anniversaries, age pyramids, recent events)
• gwsetup and administrative tooling for configuration and base management; can run via container or standard build

Use Cases

• Host and share family trees with controlled access and per-person privacy settings
• Maintain large public or research genealogical databases with multilingual content and relationship analysis
• Import legacy GEDCOM data, edit with rich notes and export cleaned GW or GEDCOM datasets for archival

Limitations and Considerations

• Uses a custom GW data format rather than a mainstream RDBMS, which can limit direct integration with external database tools
• Primary implementation in OCaml may require specific build tooling and familiarity for custom development or packaging

GeneWeb is suited for genealogists and research projects that need a scalable, privacy-aware web front end and robust relationship analysis. It prioritizes compact, efficient data handling and multilingual publishing over modern single-page UI frameworks.