Retrospect-GDS is an easy to use software application for displaying your genealogy information on the web. Retrospect-GDS is designed to be flexible so that new features can be added easily. A templating system is included to make it easy to modify the look and feel. Many popular genealogy reports are available. Retrospect-GDS also supports multiple languages.

Retrospect-GDS is written entirely in PHP and supports multiple databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL 7.x, and Oracle.

You can try out the latest demo here.

Features:

• Gedcom 5.5 import (tested with gedcom files containing over 250,000 individuals)
• Mutliple language support:
  • English
  • Spanish
  • Dutch
  • German
  • French
  • Norwegian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Hebrew
  • Swedish
• Search by given and/or surnames with or without soundex
• Full text search of location and note fields
• Reports in HTML and PDF formats
• Uses the Smarty template system to simplify template creation and modification
• Supports current web standards. Output is fully compliant with XHTML 1.0 Transitional specifications
• Compatible with PHP’s Safe Mode enabled
• All events, marriages, and children are sortable by date
• Selectable date formats
• Experimental plugin that uses a Coppermine gallery to host photos or other images.

Supported Databases:

• MySQL 3.x, 4.x, 5.x
• PostgreSQL 7.x
• Microsoft SQL (all versions)
• Oracle 11i (probably other versions as well)
• SQLite

Requirements:

• Just about any operating system capable of running PHP, a web server, and one of the supported databases
• PHP version 4.3.0 or higher