Guest Post: Gigatrees, by Tim Forsythe

 This is a guest post by Tim Forsythe, the developer of Gigatrees:

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GIGATREES, by Tim Forsythe

Let me introduce you to Gigatrees, my universal family tree website generator. Whether you are a budding family historian or an accredited genealogist, Gigatrees has something for you. Gigatrees is free for everyone - no registration is required. You can download the application, extract it, run it, build the sample family tree provided in the distribution file and view it on your PC or MAC in under 60 seconds. Try it yourself - https://gigatrees.com.

So what is special about Gigatrees besides the price? Gigatrees can import any GEDCOM file exported from any genealogy application (Ancestry, RootsMagic, Family Tree Maker, etc.) and build a family tree website as either a collection of HTML files for viewing at home, or for testing prior to building an Internet-ready database suitable for online hosting (including password protection). It supports most standard GEDCOM tags as well as hundreds of application specific extensions. It also has over 100 configurable options giving you detailed control of how your family tree is presented.

Gigatrees’ primary purpose is to present your genealogy research and family history stories together as a single entity. It accomplishes this by integrating a fully-featured personal blog along with a multilevel photo gallery and FancyBox integration.

Besides the standard pages you expect to find in a family tree, Gigatrees includes compact census tables showing all your ancestors, their data and place of residence, making it a simple task to determine where to focus your research.

Gigatrees includes population distribution heatmaps showing your ancestor's origins and the various places that they've lived.

Gigatrees also performs thorough data validation having over 40 different consistency checks and integrates seamlessly into your timelines.  

Valuable DNA tables and charts are automatically generated from your data showing how your DNA matches relate to you through your most recent common ancestor (think Thrulines, but better).

There are many other pages and reports as well, but probably the most important are the source pages. Gigatrees was designed with the serious genealogist in mind, supporting both configurable source templates and those exported from your application. It supports the Genealogy Proof Standard and other forms of proof for all claims, but most importantly, parent-child relationships.

Come on over to the website (https://gigatrees.com) and check it out. Complete documentation is included with plenty of examples and how-tos available in the Gigatrees Blog. You might be interested to know that the Gigatrees website was built using Gigatrees configured as a standalone blog. You may also want to visit my public family tree (https://timforsythe.com/greybeard/) to see Gigatrees' many features on full display.

Cheers,
Tim Forsythe

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Randy's NOTE:  This family tree documentation program is FREE to download and use.  The user has to have access to a server on which to store the files if the user wants to share their tree.  There are full details on his website. Check out his public family tree also.  I have not used Gigatrees yet, and don't have a server yet.  Tim contacted me via email to determine my awareness of Gigatrees, which I was vaguely aware of, but did not know how it worked.  I asked him if he would like to write a guest post.  

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