GeneWeb is a free multi-platform

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tool created and owned by Daniel de Rauglaudre of

INRIA The National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria) () is a French national research institution focusing on computer science and applied mathematics. It was created under the name French Institute for Research in Comp ...

. GeneWeb is accessed by a Web browser, either off-line or as a server in a

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environment. It uses very efficient techniques of relationship and

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computing, developed in collaboration with Didier Rémy, research director at

. GeneWeb is used as the engine for several public genealogy websites, including

Geneanet Geneanet (previously stylized as GeneaNet) is a Paris-based genealogy website with 4 million members. Since 2021 it is a subsidiary of Ancestry, the largest genealogy company in the world. Its website consists of data added by registered particip ...

, a collection of inter-searchable genealogical databases currently containing references to more than 225 million persons. Notable features of GeneWeb include: * High capacity: **GeneWeb can allow multiple wizards to manage the genealogical database. **GeneWeb can manage large databases: for example, the RogloRoglo database with over 10,000,000 persons
/ref> database contains over 10 million entries, managed by more than 200 wizards. *

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: When GeneWeb runs on a computer connected to the internet, it can accept HTTP requests from web clients, generating and serving HTML web pages and linked objects (images, etc.). *

GEDCOM FamilySearch GEDCOM, or simply GEDCOM ( , acronym of ''Genealogical Data Communication''), is an open file format and the de facto standard specification for storing genealogical data. It was developed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...

: GeneWeb supports import and export of

files. *

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: GeneWeb supports

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