Other genealogy tools

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In addition to the tools in GRAMPS, there are other Free Software or Open Source genealogy tools to make websites, trees, parse gedcom, .... If GRAMPS tools do not meet your needs, you may wish to consider one of the following tools.


JcArbGen

JcArbGen is a KDE (qt) pedigree tree manager in french. It is released under GPL.

Gedail

Gedail generates a Web genealogical site from a Gedcom file based on the gedcom 5.5 standard. It doesn't handle all gedcom elements. It is released under GPL.

hrlib

hrlib is a python library to read Heredis (a genealogy program) file. It allow you to read-only everything in a Heredis file with extension .hrX. Plus hrreportmaker create some reports with hrlib. It is able to use LifeLine report and also create new one in Python. There is no packages but files are on CVS. It is released under GPL.

hr2ged

hr2ged is a python program that transcribe Heredis file in Gedcom. It is available both with a GUI and on command-line. Also hr2db may transcribe to MYSQL, ACCESS (via ODBC), Gadfly. It is released under GPL.

utilspl

utilspl are useful GPL perl scripts working with GEDCOM.
cftw2lf.pl : convert Cumberland FT gedcom to LifeLines
cftwasso.pl : witness management for Cumberland FT
gedcalrep.pl : convert to french republican calendar
gedmerge.pl : merge two gedcoms
gednogeo.pl : suppress CFTW gedcom geographical coord
gednoliv.pl : suppress living persons
gednotes.pl : suppress xref notes
gedphon.pl : convert soundex
gedplace.pl : places modification
gedrefn.pl : backup REFN keys
gedsrc.pl : sources management
indbook.pl : better book-latex.ll index
leggeo.pl : make gedcom place
listlieu.pl : lists place
noteindi.pl : notes management
txt2html.pl : make html table

Non-Free Software

In addition to Free Software and Open Source Software programs, there are no cost, shareware and commercial genealogy tools. It is not the goal of the GRAMPS project to promote such products, since they do not preserve the user's freedom and can lock the user's data out of his/her control.

For more information on no cost, shareware and commercial, see Cyndi's List.