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Hi guys, I am searching for foss a self hosted solution for a family archive. The idea is to have some kind of wiki with articles for ancestors. Additionally there should be the possibility to store a lot of media (photos) with annotations (descriptions for parts of the image). Some kind of family tree would be cool as well but is not necessary. Offline acces would be cool as well but is also not necessary. In the end the software has to be able to handle a few hundred gigs of media.

I would love to get some recommendations.

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[-] mbp@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 9 months ago

Have you heard of webtrees? Self hosted, similar enough to Ancestry and you can upload relevant media to their entry. Not sure if it can handle a few hundred gigs but you could probably host the media on a separate program to reduce the DB strain.

I've used it when my wife was getting into genealogy. Still running in the background for the last few years with little to no maintenance.

[-] mbirth@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago

Yes, webtrees should fit that description.

[-] mbp@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 9 months ago

Thank you for the link ♥️

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