UncleGED is a free GEDCOM-to-HTML conversion tool.... not to be confused with a character in a very funny 1960's sitcom... that was Uncle Jed Clampett, kin to the Bodine family... no relation.

A few years ago I learned a lot about the branch of my maternal grandfather's family. Previously I had virtually no information on the family of my mother's grandfather. Thanks to a distant cousin I received a vast amount information on that branch of my family. Six months later I was still sifting through this information.

Also, I learned more about other branches and I kept my database up-to-date, but not (always) the webpages

It was very important to me that keep the documentation and the database up to date and in sync in order that I maintain accuracy and integrity of the data that I and others have so painstakingly collected over a vast number of years.

One trick that I learned a few years back was make use of different tools that allowed me to take a GEDCOM file exported from my database (FamilyTreeMaker v. 5) and convert that data into HTML formatted pages.

I've tried and tested a number tools:

• GED2HTML
• GED4WEB
• Progenitor

They are all well written programs, but none of them output the data in a format that I was happy with.

That's when UncleGED came along. One Saturday morning I sat down and I decided to write my own GED-to-HTML converter. Being very realistic, I figured that this project would take me a number of weekends to complete....

....version 1 was completed on Sunday morning of that same weekend.