Open Source Java Genealogy Software

GenealogyJ is a viewer and editor for genealogic data, suitable for hobbyist, family historian and genealogy researcher. GenJ supports the Gedcom standard, is written in Java and offers many views like family tree, table, timeline, geography and more.

GDBI is a genealogy program integrator. It includes an editor and the lifelines report language. It interfaces to multiple GEDCOM databases and is most popular as a PhpGedView client. At the core is a Java API to simplify adding databases and editors.

Toolkit for processing genetic data. Currently supports (command-line): Half-IBD (Identity by descent) aka HIRs - between 2 or any number of files (in distances and cM); RAW2PED, PED2RAW conversions; regions of homozygousity and other converters.

Ancestris is a genealogy program written in Java. It works under any operating system, Windows, Linux, MacOS. Ancestris is developed under GNU General Public License. Ancestris is a genealogy software that closely respects the GEDCOM 5.5 standard which will allow you to work on files that are reliable and that you can exchange and share without losing data. In addition to the editors (Ancestris comes with two editors: a GEDCOM editor and a standard one), it offers many views like tree view, geographic view, chronological view, browsers, tables: individuals, families, etc.. and numerous reports. It offers an opportunity to expand its capabilities and adapt it to your needs and desires thanks to plugins.

Given GEDCOM file, the program groups persons by haplogroups and prints different kinds of reports including atree. Given atree - the program generates GEDCOM file from it. Utility can be used for text files transcoding (including into phonetic from russian windows-1251 GEDCOMs etc)

JGenea is a 100% java genealogy application. The aim is to permit to visualize and manipulate genealogical datas ( importation / exportation / generation of documentations ). It plugges on different sql database but has it owns by defaut.

@rbre uses X3D to let people create, visualize, browse and share genealogical data, by using 2D individual icons assembled in 3D family trees. @rbre will include P2P functions for sharing.

This converter bridges from the .ahn file format into GEDCOM 5.5.1, It's a command-line tool written in Java. AhnConvert allows family data, laboriously grabbed decades ago surviving into state-of-the art genealogy software products. The software "Familien Chronik" by Reiner W. Dudde was a genealogy software published by Data Becker as part of the "Goldene Serie" series, back in the 1990's. Especially in Germany this tool penetrated the market to some extent. Generating a project and filling in all relatives and ancestors resulted in an .ahn file. Unfortunatelly, this format cannot be imported by any of the current genealogy software. On the other side, GEDCOM can be read without problems by most of today's programs.

FinFamily is an application for managing your genealogical data. The java application is swing based with Webstart option. It uses embedded H2 database or PostgreSQL database for storage. FinFamily has extra features for Finnish genealogy but is not limited to Finland.

GEDCOM is the standard for storing genealogical data. When provided with two GEDCOM files, GEDFuse will combine the data into a single file. GEDFuse uses a very simple method of combining two files and does not make attempts to merge common records.

Simple API for Genealogy

jLifeLines is a genealogy program, based on the popular LifeLines project, to help with your family history research. Its primary strengths are its powerful scripting language and the ability to easily import and export information in the GEDCOM format.

Arbol3D is a very simple genealogic program writeen in Java (Spanish). You can edit info (name, sex, dates of birth, death, marriage, etc...) for individuals, add/remove photo, import and export GEDCOM data and more... The program uses a text file as database!

Arboreum is an XML based platform independent genealogy program designed for managing complex genealogical relationships and data sets. Features include import/export of GEDCOM 5.5 formated data and HTML based data navigation.

Atavi is an interactive genealogical data visualization tool. It uses XSLT to transform XML data into SVG (Scable Vector Graphics) images. Deploy it as a Java servlet and explore visualizations from a browser that supports SVG. GEDCOM import is planned.

Bitnets instantiates and operates on graphs and subgraphs of large complex networks, such as kinship networks. Bitnets consists mainly of a java library, a number of use examples and an interactive interpreted language interface.

Provide geneology information, contact information, personal descriptions and webpages, calendars, etc in a web interface. This system will use php and any database system and will provide various level of public and private access.

A Java tool to convert GEDCOM 5.5 Files into real valid GEDCOM 6.0 Files. Unlike all the stuff you find on the web, this is no custom, experimental or intermediate "standard". We validate against the DTD released in the Draft from the LDS Church! T

Target is develop import and export filter for various data base systems from and to GEDCOM and GedXML (the XML specification of GEDCOM). The GEDCOM data format is prepared by "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" (also known as Mormone)

Gedapi is an AJAX javascript library built to interact with a server side RESTful web service api that exposes data stored in GEDCOM files. Gedapi provides the ability to link between distinct GEDCOM files without modifying or merging the GEDCOM files.

GedBas4all (GedBas is a short form of "Genealogical Database System") is a program to organize genealogical data. The information will be stored in xml documents. Modularization will hopefully make it possible to extend the programm easily.

Genepool is a Java and SQL based geneaology software, designed to be user-friendly but powerful at the same time. It will also be able to output to a variety of formats, and be able to combine several trees into a big one.

GeneaPro is a multi-user, cross-platform Genealogy database program based on the GenTech Genealogical Data Model. Written in Java using the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP), Hibernate persistance, and SQL/JDBC databases (HSQLDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL).

GenealSimple is a simple way to generate, manage and view a family tree. It is a web-based application realised as a Java applet with MySQL database access. The focus lies on the simple, user friendly and intuitive GUI.

A Java app for the entry, storage, and networking of genealogical information. Unlike most other genealogical database programs, Genealogy uses the rich GENTECH model rather than a custom one or GEDCOM, and can network remote genealogical databases.