Biography and Genealogy

Your family's history, decentralized, standardized, and open-sourced

Share your family's biographical and genealogical data in a standardized, formally-defined format. Use a collection of text files in YAML syntax, and a JSON schema, to preserve your family's history and relationships forever. Family histories once kept in shoeboxes or inscribed in the family bible can now be maintained online as a family group activity and passed on to future generations.

• No need to be reliant on expensive or insecure online services. BioAndGen files can be used with private servers, "small web" self-hosted environments, or even stored and used completely offline.
• Update records and exchange information with relatives at reunions, weddings, and funerals.
• Include contact information to stay in touch, even with those who use different online services.
• Build an obituary quickly and easily when a loved one passes away.
• Capture detailed biographical information not usually published in obituaries, like affiliations, accomplishments, publications, travels, awards, and life events.
• Preserve family history for subsequent generations.
• Catch up new family members as they marry in, or return after lengthy separation.
• Capture complex blended-family relationships.

Getting started

• Write your first BioAndGen YAML file
• Browse the documentation
• See sample files
• About the design of this standard