Genealogy
Record family members and their relationships and build a family tree.
Maintained, but at a slower pace than the leaders in its category.
Commit activity more than 48% of tracked projects; popularity more than 18%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 361 |
|---|---|
| Latest release | v6.4.1 · 14 Sept 2026 |
| Repo updated | 18 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | MIT |
| Built with | PHP |
Is Genealogy actively maintained?
Genealogy is under active development: 243 commits landed over the last 11 months, averaging roughly 8 commits a month in the most recent quarter.
Activity is cooling: commits are down 70% against the previous quarter. One slow quarter is normal; two in a row is a signal.
The most recent tagged release, v6.4.1, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.
Genealogy ranks #3 of 5 in Genealogy, placing it mid-table for maintenance activity.
What Genealogy actually does
Genealogy is a self-hosted application designed for recording family members and mapping their relationships to build a comprehensive family tree. It provides a centralised digital space to store personal history, dates, and lineage data on your own infrastructure. The project is written in PHP and distributed under the MIT licence.
Best fit: It is a suitable choice for hobbyists and researchers who want to privately manage and map their family history using a lightweight, open-source stack.
Worth knowing: The moderate maintenance activity and smaller community size mean you may encounter fewer third-party plugins and slower responses to bugs compared to larger mainstream alternatives.
Deployment notes
As a PHP application, you will typically need to run it behind a standard web server like Nginx or Apache with PHP-FPM, alongside a compatible database such as MySQL or MariaDB and persistent storage for uploaded media.
Alternatives to Genealogy
Projects in the same categories, ordered by health score.
Genealogy software that can be used offline or as a Web service.
Web app for collaborative genealogy, based on and interoperable with Gramps, the open source genealogy desktop application.
Webtrees is the web's leading online collaborative genealogy application.
Genealogy tool designed with privacy in mind that anyone can use to author or edit their family tree. Data is stored in the GEDCOM format and all processing is done in the browser.