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Hi guys, I am searching for foss a self hosted solution for a family archive. The idea is to have some kind of wiki with articles for ancestors. Additionally there should be the possibility to store a lot of media (photos) with annotations (descriptions for parts of the image). Some kind of family tree would be cool as well but is not necessary. Offline acces would be cool as well but is also not necessary. In the end the software has to be able to handle a few hundred gigs of media.

I would love to get some recommendations.

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[-] MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

What you're looking for is genealogy software. You've got me curious about this as well now, hadn't thought about it before. I'm seeing some recommendations online for Gramps Web, don't know if it's a perfect fit but might be a good starting point.

[-] DragonBard@ttrpg.network 11 points 9 months ago

Start with plain old Gramps. It can export to static sites with several different templates. Gramps Web is not easy to host or run. It was designed for some specialized things.

https://gramps-project.org/blog/

[-] bonusss@lemmy.zip 3 points 9 months ago

Gramps is the way! Running the container self hosted is quick! And it’s very active, lots of UI upgrades. I’m working with my dad in it being in diff countries.👌

[-] Zenlix@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago

This is pretty much what I searched for. Thanks!

[-] overload@sopuli.xyz 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I use Gramps and it's good. Has a Linux client too. My Family Tree is also good but windows only.

[-] batmaniam@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

2nd gramps. I spooled it up in about 2mins on an unraid server.

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