Rodovid
Encyclopedia
Rodovid is a free online collaborative family tree
portal. Originally a Ukrainian
project, as of August 2009 it has active communities in over 19 languages. It provides a web service
built using MediaWiki
and its own Rodovid Engine software to help store and visualize family relationships.
, Ukraine
. The name Rodovid comes from the Ukrainian word Rodovid, meaning "lineage" or "genealogy". As of July 2009, Rodovid had over 320,000 total records for individuals and families across all languages, including 65,000 in each of English and Russian.
The Rodovid project's data and descriptions are stored on servers in Kiev, and available under the Creative Commons Attribution license where not already in the public domain. It has experimented with supporting imports of GEDCOM
files. The Rodovid Engine software is proprietary. As of 2008, it supported page layouts of family trees optimised for browsing and for printing, and could generate trees of thousands of people in seconds.
Family tree
A family tree, or pedigree chart, is a chart representing family relationships in a conventional tree structure. The more detailed family trees used in medicine, genealogy, and social work are known as genograms.-Family tree representations:...
portal. Originally a Ukrainian
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
project, as of August 2009 it has active communities in over 19 languages. It provides a web service
Web service
A Web service is a method of communication between two electronic devices over the web.The W3C defines a "Web service" as "a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network". It has an interface described in a machine-processable format...
built using MediaWiki
MediaWiki
MediaWiki is a popular free web-based wiki software application. Developed by the Wikimedia Foundation, it is used to run all of its projects, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikinews. Numerous other wikis around the world also use it to power their websites...
and its own Rodovid Engine software to help store and visualize family relationships.
About the project
Rodovid was founded in September 2005 by a group of developers and genealogy enthusiasts in KievKiev
Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....
, Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
. The name Rodovid comes from the Ukrainian word Rodovid, meaning "lineage" or "genealogy". As of July 2009, Rodovid had over 320,000 total records for individuals and families across all languages, including 65,000 in each of English and Russian.
The Rodovid project's data and descriptions are stored on servers in Kiev, and available under the Creative Commons Attribution license where not already in the public domain. It has experimented with supporting imports of GEDCOM
GEDCOM
GEDCOM, an acronym for GEnealogical Data COMmunication, is a proprietary and open de facto specification for exchanging genealogical data between different genealogy software...
files. The Rodovid Engine software is proprietary. As of 2008, it supported page layouts of family trees optimised for browsing and for printing, and could generate trees of thousands of people in seconds.
External links
- The Beagle web agency, designers of Rodovid