Cocoa interface to GEDCOM file

Question

The only full-fledged GPL Cocoa editor for GEDCOM 5.5 files (GenerationX) was last released in 2003: http://sourceforge.net/projects/generationx/ It looks unstable under Snow Leopard and would badly need a revamp.

Someone recently posted a proof-of-concept application (unrelated to GenerationX) on Google Code, but it looks like an unmaintained project: http://code.google.com/p/cocoa-gedcom/

Is there any Cocoa developer interested in genealogy and willing to resurrect any of these projects? Or any other projects with a decent release cycle I am not aware of?

The Mac genealogy software market is dominated by pricy and feature-bloated proprietary solutions. A no-nonsense open source GEDCOM-compliant framework for Mac OS would be a blessing.

Answer 1

There is MacPAF, but I'm not sure what the status of it is.

Answer 2

If you are still looking into Genealogy-Software, you might want to try the free program "Familienbande".

It's available for Mac and for Windows, free for personal use, supports GedCom and it is well maintained. I only use the German version (the developer is German) but since he has some native speaking US contributors, I assume the English version should also be usable.

The UI needs some getting used to, but for a free program, it is absolutely perfect.

Give it a try under: http://www.familienbande-genealogie.de/en/index.html

Regards Thomas

Answer 3

Did you check out GRAMPS? (Written in Python, using Gtk. So it doesn't look native on OSX, but works.)