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Open Source Family Tree Projects

• Gedcom-Web-View
• Geneweb
• Gramps
• HuMo-gen
• LifeLines
• webtrees

Open Source Genealogy Projects

• Places
• Names
• Gedcom
• FamilySearch login boilerplate: client and server
• FreeUKGen
• LeafSeek - an open source toolkit for building genealogical and historical record search engines, based on Apache Solr (back-end) and Solarium/PHP/HTML/CSS/jQuery (front-end)

Genealogy APIs

• FamilySearch API
• Geni.com API
• MyHeritage Family Graph API

Genealogy Standards and Standards Groups

• FHISO
• BetterGEDCOM
• schema.org/historical-data (microformat)
• GEDCOM
• GEDCOMX

Genealogy Technology Groups and Mailing Lists

Active Lists

• RootsDev
• FSDN
• GEDCOM-L (archives)
• LifeLines list server

Inactive Lists (These are mostly defunct, but their archives are worth checking out)

• BeyondGen Google Group (Defunct: "a place to talk about things like innovation, genealogy data models, user interfaces, interoperability, new software and sites, and so on")
• Evidentiary Document Model Google Group (Defunct)
• History and Genealogy Semantics Working Group (Defunct)
• Open Ancestry Google Group (Defunct)

Groups and Mailing List for Related Fields

• history-GIS list discussing historical GIS
• GBHGIS Mailing List discussing Great Britain Historical GIS

Genealogy Technology Political Resources

• Open Genealogy Alliance (UK)
• Open Digitization Project
• Save the SSDI (USA)

Genealogy Developer Blogs

• Taking Genealogy to the Common Person