Tom Wetmore
LINES-L discussion list established 1992 by Cliff Manis, now owned by Marc Nozell
The official manual is now included in the distributions.
For your convenience, here are the manuals from popular releases:
3.1.1 Manuals
3.0.62 Manuals
Updated report scripts are now included with the Lifelines kit.
all reports posted on LINES-L by Vincent P. Broman
genealogical charts in PostScript by John S. Quarterman
old repository at ftp://hoth.stsci.edu no longer works
3.0.5 Windows95/NT port by Paul McBride
- description of changes
GenWeb site by Scott McGee
WW-Person by Herbert Stoyan
GenServ home page by Cliff Manis
Dan Hirschberg
Denis Roegel
Petter Reinholdtsen
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Key Info
- Lifelines was written by Tom Wetmore circa 1991-1994 and he has
now placed it under an MIT-style license. Tom no longer works on
lifelines, but does occasionally participate on the LINES-L mailing
list. His original website was http://www.bartonstreet.com/software/lines
but is no longer valid. Historians can visit the wayback machine if they
desire to see it.
- The long running mailing list for Lifelines is
LINES-L@listserv.nodak.edu. To subscribe, send a message to
listserv@listserv.nodak.edu and put in the body of the
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The list archives
are at
http://listserv.nodak.edu/archives/lines-l.html.
- Information is stored in a GEDCOM format. If you don't know what
that is, you may have a little difficulty getting started. I'd
recommend that you export a GEDCOM file from your existing genealogy
software pagage and import it into lifelines. If you don't have one
handy, grab a GEDCOM from one of the genealogy sites. I recommend Rootsweb.com
- IMHO, the real power of lifelines is its scripting ability. There
are a number of lifelines reports (aka scripts) that generate all
manner of output -- Ahnentafels, ancestor/descendant reports, groff
formatted ancestor reports, beautiful LaTeX books of all ancestors,
PostScript fans of ancestors, and many others.
All the reports are included with LifeLines.
- Internationalization and localization: Native language support has been
added for a number of languages, including Danish, French, German, and Swedish
beginning with the 3.0.29 release.
- As an open source project, full source is available. The files may
be browsed directly on the web (via the Github links at the top of the page).
Futures
For a complete list of planned work items, please refer to the task
list, but here is a short list.
- Work on an X-based GUI (volunteer to help!)
- Better documentation with translation (volunteer to help!)
- Improving access to sources, events, etc (underway)
- UI and DB APIs for extensibility
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