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The Interactive Family Tree addon does not send any data out of your computer.

It is processed locally on your computer. Only the Topola JavaScript Genealogy viewer application is downloaded so that it can run locally.

Interactive Family Tree addon screenshot.

The Interactive Family Tree addon allows you to browse the family tree using the Topola Genealogy Viewer.

Contents

Usage

Select Menu Tools > Analysis and Exploration -> Interactive Family Tree... and then a web page will open with your family tree.

If the person you want to view is not shown you can search for them.

You can click on people to change the focus of the tree.

You can choose between three different views; Hourglass chart, All relatives and Fancy tree(experimental).

You can print or download the chart in various formats.

You can + zoom in or - zoom out on the chart.

Features

One of the features of this addon is that the Interactive Family Tree addon does not send any data out of your computer.

This is something that is not obvious because what you see in the browser is a web application.

Technical details

Here is a technical description of how the addon works.

On the Gramps side, the addon saves a temporary file in GEDCOM format and sets up a temporary local HTTP server inside Gramps that reads the GEDCOM file.

Then, the addon opens your browser pointing to a web application hosted on GitHub pages. That web application contains a GEDCOM parser and viewer that is loaded into your browser. The web application is a “single page application.” Once it is loaded from the GitHub server, it does not require further Internet connections to work. This is why you can open it from the browser’s cache even with no internet connection. (i.e., WiFi turned off) After the web application is loaded from cache, it reads the GEDCOM file from simple local HTTP server temporarily set up by Gramps. If the cached file expires and is purged, a fresh copy will need to be downloaded again.

 
Genealogy Data is not uploaded.

The data is only loaded locally into the browser’s memory and does not leave your computer. It is processed by JavaScript code to produce a visualization of the data.


See also