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Adam: The GEDCOM Family Tree Builder


For those of you who have been patiently waiting, Adam: The GEDCOM Family Tree Builder is back, being made available this time as a free web service so that you can once again use it to build your family trees. Your family tree, once built, will be compressed and presented as a zip file, which can be downloaded, extracted and then uploaded to your favorite hosting service or viewed independently. Your family tree can easily be archived and shared with friends and relatives without the need to publish your information online.

Adam has many unique features not found in other family tree builders. These features were designed to present your data in a highly readable format and to provide insight into the quality of your data. The features and the configuration options are described more fully in the User Manual. Adam also makes special use of some of the existing GEDCOM tags as well as a number GEDCOM compliant extensions. These extended capabilities give you the ability to easily add important genealogy related data to your database, data that the GEDCOM standard does not provide out-of-the-box. When present these data fields will greatly enhance the presentation of your family tree. More information on the extensions is available in the FAQ.

If you would like to see an example of Adam in action, you can review my tree at THE FORSYTHE SAGA where I have been using Adam to publish my it online for over a decade. If you publish your tree online using Adam, consider sharing a link so that it can be added to a list of user sites.

If you have comments, questions or suggestions, please don't hesitate to chime in using the form provided below, and pleeeeease, for the love of trees, take a moment and give Adam an honest >> review <<.

Tim Forsythe

Adam 1.18 (updated May 15, 2013)

GEDCOM File

Now serving number:   289



Output Files
File Extension    
  • Page Links Include Extension

Family Tree Title
Website Title    

Pages
  • Updates
  • Sources
  • Ancestors List
  • Census Table
  • Timelines
  • Locations
  • Immigrants
  • Nobility
  • Photos
  • External Links
  • Bonkers Report
  • Statistics

Properties
  • Hide Living Persons
  • Privatize
  • Remove Unused Records
  • Highlight Uncertain Ancestors
  • Show Certainty Assessments
Source Images URL    
Photo Images URL    
Photo Thumbnails URL    
Widget Images URL    

Header: Post-Header: Body: Footer:

Vivify
  • Assume Flourishing For All Vendor Specific Events
  • Deep Scanning (estimates birth dates)
  • Force Using Closest Estimate
     Maximum Child Baptism Age
     Minimum Marriage Age
     Maximum Wife's Marriage Age
     Maximum Age Between Spouses
     Minimum Child Bearing Age
     Maximum Child Bearing Age
     Minimum Flourishing Age
     Maximum Flourishing Age
     Maximum Age (Life Span)
     Maximum Event Age Error

Bonkers
  • Show Misformatted Dates
  • Show Persons Missing 1 Parent
  • Show Persons Missing Both Parents
  • Show Impossibilities Only (hides improbabilities)
     Dead if Born Before Year
     Dead if Married Before Year

A-List
Root Person ID          The "Root" is also used by CENtaR to build the Census Table Report, unless CENtaR is configured below to "Include All Qualifying Persons".

CENtaR
  • Autodetect Census Years
  • Include All Qualifying Persons
    Census Year
    Census Year
    Census Year
    Census Year
    Census Year
    Census Year
    Census Year
    Census Year
    Census Year
    Census Year
    Census Year
    Census Year
    Census Year
    Census Year
    Census Year
    Census Year



  • Add a Comment

    • Tim Forsythe
      31 Mar 2013

      See the FAQ for instructions on embedding into a Wordpress blog.

    • xdamageinc
      30 Mar 2013

      Thanks. I am down t wordpress.com now(VS.org and hope to embed ths somehow

    • Tim Forsythe
      30 Mar 2013

      Tom the GEDCOM version was missing form your file, so it could not be processed.

    • Tom Albrecht
      29 Mar 2013

      Albrecht Family Web Site

    • stever
      28 Mar 2013

      hello

    • Martin Summers
      18 Mar 2013

      Great if it works on my homeserver

    • Tim Forsythe
      14 Mar 2013

      Armand, the service timed out, but was able to complete successfully in the background. I'm not sure why you didn't get a notification. Anyway, I emailed you the link so you can download it.

    • Armand Pasquier
      14 Mar 2013

      Few minutes ago I sent you my gedcom file "PasqAllies3-13-SansIllustr.ged". Before uploading it, obviously I filled the form above. Why I did not receive any message to tell me it was received and tell me how vill be the following step ? I don't speak and write easely the american language. I am sorry.
      I hope to receive your answer. Thank you.
      Armand Pasquier

    • Armand PASQUIER
      14 Mar 2013

      I should like to use it to complete data of my family cosins site
      Thank you for your very interesting genealogic tool

    • michael
      19 Feb 2013

      Tnx

    • Tim Forsythe
      16 Feb 2013

      Adam is ideally suited to Family Historian users because FH allows you to add user tags and Adam makes use of several special tags like source categories and parental associations (See the FAQ) that set it apart. Adam is fairly easy to use (I think), just upload a GEDCOM file, click submit, and download the zip file. When you extract it you will have a fully working family tree website (see mine for an example) that you can put on a CD or host on a website. The options are explained in more detail on the blog page at: http://timforsythe.com/blog/adam. The FAQ also covers some of the advanced options like setting image paths and stylesheets. Most users will just ignore these and use the defaults. The basic options are probably self defining. If you have specific option questions, just ask.

    • Jennifer Nicholas
      16 Feb 2013

      Tim, I am have been researching my family history and building a tree for several years using Family Historian. I have looked at doing a Cd or putting it on the internet for my family but have been daunted by the various choices I am asked to make. I have no understanding of HTML etc . Would Adam be useful for me and would I find it fairly simple to use?

    • Tim Forsythe
      14 Feb 2013

      Jennifer, I hope you found the results to be useful. Was there anything in particular you are looking for?

    • Jennifer Wheaton
      13 Feb 2013

      I hope I am understanding how to do this. This is a very important project to me.

    • Dan garnitz
      09 Feb 2013

      Garnitz family

    • Art
      06 Feb 2013

      Why doesn't generate Adam a place list like in 'The Forsythe Saga' ?

    • Tim Forsythe
      29 Jan 2013

      Art, you're in the right place.This is the page where you upload a GEDCOM file and set your configuration. When you hit the submit button, it will build the website and put it into a zip file so you can download it. Once downloaded you can then extract that file onto your computer or web host to view it. To personalize your website, you will probably want to modify the Header, Body and Footer boxes above. You can also modify or override the stylesheet provided to change things like colors, borders, widths, etc.

    • Art
      29 Jan 2013

      I've read the information on your site extensively.
      Although i am a little bit lost.
      HOW ans WHERE do i insert the codes to accomplisch an output like "the Forsythe Saga"?
      I use Gramps to build an gedcom.

    • Tim Forsythe
      22 Jan 2013

      Okay, Erik, I think I’ve got it working now.

    • Erik de Smidt
      22 Jan 2013

      Dear Tim, I uploaded a new gedcom yesterday and I still have the same problem with lower- and upper case.

    • Tim Forsythe
      17 Jan 2013

      Erik, thanks for letting me know. they should be working now. Let me know if run across any other mishandled case sensitive links.

    • Erik de Smidt
      17 Jan 2013

      Looks really great! There is a small problem using Linux: the file “file:///home/erik/Arbeitsfl%C3%A4che/ADAM/names_s.html#Schmidt” is not found because the real file name is names_S.html (with an capital S). So you might want to change your filenames to all lower- or upper case.

    • Erik de Smidt
      17 Jan 2013

      Let's see, if this works. The gedcom is from the dutch program Aldfaer and yes, there are still some errors in it. :)

    • Dai Bevan
      17 Jan 2013

      Trying for the first time with a Gedcom from Generations 8.5

    • Tim Forsythe
      16 Jan 2013

      What a great complement zoomdoggies (love the name), thank you. I’ve been hand crafting this puppy (no pun intended) for(it seems)ever. I have a lot of opinions on how genealogy data should be analyzed and presented, and have tried to put these forth in Adam.

    • zoomdoggies
      16 Jan 2013

      Wow. I just threw a rather messy .ged at Adam, just to see what would happen. In addition to pointing out that there was a lot of cruft and craziness that I need to clean out of the database (I knew that), it came back with some very helpful new ways to look at my data. I’m still figuring out what-all I’ve got here, but it’s obvious that this is amazing helpful. I’ll probably clean things up, and come back for another round. Well done, you! Thanks for making this available!

    • Tim Forsythe
      16 Jan 2013

      Note: trying to blindly support GEDCOM files from a wide variety of vendors and data that has been entered in all sorts of manner by users so that the resulting output is reasonable to everyone who uses it, is tricky. If you have problems with the service or feel that certain things could be handled differently, you will need to contact me here or directly to let me know so that it can be addressed one way or the other. It would also be useful for users to post their "workarounds" so that others can make use of them.


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