Forebears

Site: https://forebears.azurewebsites.net

Summary

During my family history research I began to get frustrated that there wasn’t a cloud-based application that allowed me to privately and easily share a family tree - without requiring that my family members sign up for accounts (looking at you). I was uncovering some great stories about my ancestors and wanted to share it with my family - but not the world!

I defined my requirements and decided to build something myself:

• Start from scratch or import a GEDCOM file
• Use a tree chart as the home navigation with clickable people
• Capture family group data and structured source data
• Other family members can privately view all pages, but not the general public.
• Understandable by everyone - no jargon used only by genealogists
• Exportable in a format suitable for preservation/posterity and so that another descendant can pick up where I left off. Eg pdf for printing.
• Flexible enough for me to store any kind of info against an individual, including random memories
• Users can request access from the account owner.
• Continually updated with new data without starting over.

I’m chipping away at it, but still a lot to do.

Tech

• .NET 9
• Azure Storage
• Blazor WASM
• MudBlazor
• Auth0
• NLog