TNG v8.0

Ver­sion 8.0 of TNG, The Next Gen­er­a­tion of Geneal­o­gy Site Build­ing looks to be a major improve­ment in speed, usabil­i­ty, and design.

In case you do not know about it, the TNG pro­gram is a PHP/MySQL-based geneal­o­gy data­base that allows you to build advanced web inter­ac­tion for your genealog­i­cal data sim­ply by upload­ing a GEDCOM file. You can also edit items right inside your web­site, or share author­ing with oth­er researchers.The infor­ma­tion sits in an indus­try-stan­dard open source data­base, where you

I had been con­cerned about inte­grat­ing it with the Word­Press blog, because the TNG plug-in had been slow to load. Now, the whole appli­ca­tion, even with­in the con­text of Word­Press, seems speedy. The graph­ics sim­ply look bet­ter, and the graph­i­cal pre­view (where you can quick­ly get a bet­ter view of the graph­ics) is snap­py.

The pro­gram is very handy. Since it runs on a serv­er, I have my research with me every­where I have a web brows­er. I am also exper­i­ment­ing with using this as my main repos­i­to­ry of genealog­i­cal data. The speed and look of this ver­sion may help con­vince me. I already know that it’s easy to use, main­tain, back­up, and con­fig­ure. The data is mine, and does not reside some­where else (say on rootsweb). I have been a devot­ed user of The Mas­ter Geneal­o­gist, but I see the porta­bil­i­ty of TNG, as well as its con­fig­ura­bil­i­ty. (Even the data­base schema can be mod­i­fied.) Unlike TMG, The Next Gen­er­a­tion gives me my data­base where ever I can get on the web, which is pret­ty much any­where these days.