Lifelines for Unix

• Software for UNIX and linux created by Tom Wetmore.
• The source code is available.
• No special limit (at least not that I know of!). The interface is however a bit terse (images to come).
• Web page
• Lifelines can produce all kinds of outputs through the use of parametrable modules written in a "genealogy oriented language" (GOL). Many modules exist and it is easy to add new ones or to modify existing ones.
• I intend to present other kinds of outputs, as time goes by. Here are already a few ones made from Christian Daumoinx's GEDCOM file. Usually, I made only few changes to the original GEDCOM file. I changed only some font encodings (some modules were targetted for Macintosh users, etc.) and added spaces after commas.
  • Example of ancestry tree. The tree fits on six A4 pages. PDF PostScript (module desc-tex2)
  • Circular ancestry tree. PDF PostScript (module ps-circ)
  • Non circular ancestry tree. PDF PostScript (module pedtex2)
  • Descent in book form. PDF (module register-tex)
  • Fan ancestry. PDF PostScript (module ps-fan)
  • Other ancestry. PDF PostScript (module ps-pedigree)
  • Other ancestry. PDF PostScript (module ps-anc8.ll)

Footnote 1: the PostScript files can be viewed with ghostscript, ghostview, gv, etc. The PDF (Portable Document Format) files can be viewed with Acrobat Reader. These programs are freely available on Internet.

Footnote 2: I am using Lifelines since this software became public at the end of 1992. I am handling more than 8000 people with it.

Last update: Denis Roegel, December 9, 1998