The Rodovod project is an open educational and research multilingual project for building, combining, viewing and studying data on the genealogy of people, citizens of the global society of our planet in different historical eras, in which everyone can change or supplement the data on a particular family, a person including building your own family tree. Rodovod uses the free software MediaWiki - the same that is used by Wikipedia and other projects of the Wikimedia Foundation , but with a proprietary (according to the author, for several years now temporary) add-in. One of the advantages of Rodovod in comparison with similar sites (for example, WikiTree ) is the automatic construction of genealogical tables based on the entered data. A significant drawback of Rodovod is the inability to print a full family tree on paper.
| Rodovod | |
|---|---|
| Rodovid | |
| URL | rodovid.org |
| Commercial | not |
| Site type | , and |
| Languages) | multilingual |
| Programming language | PHP ( MediaWiki ) |
| Beginning of work | September 22, 2005 [1] |
| Alexa Rating | ▲ 126,712 (September 6, 2017) [2] |
The Rodovod was founded in September 2005 by a group of developers and genealogy enthusiasts in Kiev , Ukraine . The domain name Rodovid comes from Ukrainian. rodovid , which means “ family tree ” ( family tree ), “family tree” ( generational painting ) [3] .
The project and all data is stored on AWS servers under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license . The site engine (a program for displaying family trees) is proprietary software .
Content
Growth Dynamics [4]
- December 25, 2006 - 50 thousand records
- December 3, 2007 - 100 thousand records
- January 2009 - 187,500 entries, of which Russian or translated into Russian - 48,050
- April 28, 2010 - 350 thousand records
- September 2010 - 400 thousand records
- January 6, 2011 - 450 thousand records, of which Russian or translated into Russian 149,401
- October 2011 - 500 thousand records.
- April 2012 - 600 thousand records, of which Russian or translated into Russian 200 000
- 2014 - 800 thousand records
- November 25, 2016 - 921 thousand people and 249 thousand families
Planned or anticipated effect
- To give everyone an opportunity ( regardless of age, nation, skin color, religion or social status ) to compose their family tree and describe what is known about their family name and gender, restoring and combining family ties, and it is possible to restore these ties “from biblical times and extend them further into the depths of history. "
- Finalization of the new version of import-export GEDCOM (70% readiness in May 2010).
- Create Geoportal
- Launching New Locations
Positive aspects of the project
- Ability to maintain a tree simultaneously in several languages
- Free and open project, which allows several relatives to join a single tree and build it together remotely.
- Unlike most other online genealogy projects, there are relatively few double characters in Rodovod and users are actively eliminating duplicates.
Criticism
- Inability to copy and save your records as a file.
- There is no possibility to import / export GEDCOM files, it is indicated that this service is “temporarily unavailable due to the update”, it lasts from June 20, 2007. [five]
- Rodovod participants are not able to print the fruits of their labor in the form of a complete family tree.
- The disadvantage of Rodovod is the weak citation of sources.
- Some sectors (especially English, medieval and antique) are overloaded with mythical or semi-mythical characters.
- There is no way to configure different degrees of visibility of personal data for living and deceased people.
Analogs
- Family navigator of the Union for the revival of genealogical traditions (surnames are entered only by filing applications)
- WikiTree (English only)
- Familypedia (in five languages, Russian is not supported)
- WeRelate (English only)
Notes
- ↑ History on the Rodovod
- ↑ Global rating of the site Rodovod (Eng.) . Alexa Internet . Date of treatment September 6, 2017.
- ↑ Translation of the word "Rodovid" (inaccessible link)
- ↑ Rodovod: Statistics on the Rodovod
- ↑ GEDCOM import disabled temporarily: 06/20/2007
Literature
- Lukomska, Irina. Шукаємо родовід. Where do you go? // Ukrainian truth. - September 30, 2009. (Ukrainian) (Retrieved June 5, 2011)
- Sumner, Esther Yu. No Rest for the Wiki. // Ancestry. - Vol. 25. - Issue 3. - May-June, 2007. - P. 53. ISSN 1075-475X (English) (Retrieved June 5, 2011)
Links
- General homepage
- Russian part of the project (Russian)
- meta: Rodovid.org/ru (Russian)
- Safonov, Eugene. What you need to know in order to restore your family tree?