Genology

[Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda]

On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il> wrote:

> Thank you all for answering.
>
> I am set to using Gramps exclusively, I chose it because it is in the repos
> and easy to install...
>
> How good is Geni's Hebrew support?
>
> I doubt they have a Hebrew UI, but data inserted in Hebrew is well
visible, including the flash parts which are  important for seeing the tree.
Now it works OK with firefox as well. I believe they have UIs in many other
languages, though.

I had a lot of data in Ilanot and Gramps, and sought many ways to share is
in a reasonable protected manner among distant family members. None was good
enough, but geni is a sufficient solution (not ideal - their sharing
policies vary in an unpredictable way. Like all of a sudden letting people
you cooperate with have control over profiles you created. We needed to
urgently go and take some people off our lists).

Another geni drawback - if a person dies, and his profile is owned by him,
it looks like there is no way to make him appear dead in geni. You may end
up getting birthday reminders for a dead person. I prefer birthdays than
year-days, but some people find this annoying.

Note that Ilanot (proprietary software, by BET HATFOOTSOT, Windows software)
uses a special format designed for libraries in the seventies, so that it
supports multilingual data. However, exporting the data out gives a lot of
garbage... I tried getting the geni team to support those files, and they
tried a bit, but they did not help me in the end.

I prefer an Online option where I can ask my family to enter their on
> data...
>
> Thing is they are not very good with English. Hebrew and / or Spanish UIs
> will be better...
>
> Can anyone suggest other online Genology options that support Hebrew and
> Spanish?
>
> Thanks!
>
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> Amichai Rotman
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> 2010/6/6 Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda <ladypine at gmail.com>
>
>
>>
>> 2010/6/5 Boris shtrasman <borissh1983 at gmail.com>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 2010/6/5 Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il>
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Any of you used Gramps for their "Shorashim" project?
>>>>
>>>> I would like to know if there's a way to start it with a Hebrew UI and
>>>> if there are any Israel /Jewish specific plugins for it...
>>>>
>>>> Hi ,
>>> I used (and still using) Gramps in order to help with genealogy research.
>>> In private for people having problems with Rabanut (getting the
>>> information in the right way). As in how to collect the data and print it.
>>> Afaik they don't support any gedcom/xml formats.
>>>
>>
>> Gramps can export in multiple formats, including gedcom. However, trying
>> to export from gramps to geni.com I only managed to export the basic
>> profiles - all the extra data was lost. Not to mention the mess I got with
>> Hebrew names inserted via ILANOT, passed through gramsp, exported to
>> geni.com.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Please use the normal UI and write in the core and not some fork,
>>> Then it will be much easier to maintain the code.
>>>
>>> Do you have a specific request ?
>>> I added some gewish events but any change would be welcome (I think).
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> Amichai Rotman
>>>>
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>>>> Registered Ubuntu User #12851 [http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net]
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