I've always had an interest in Genealogy, and have a web site about my family's roots.  Until about six months ago, I updated this information locally on my PC using one of the popular commercial genealogy software packages and then uploaded the output of a subset of the available reports to my web site via FTP.  However, I always thought it would be a lot more useful to both me and the folks who visited my site if I could have the ability to generate a more comprehensive set of reports dynamically via a web browser interface.

So I went looking for something that could do this.  And found an open source software package called PhpGEDView.  And it was exactly what I was lookling for.  It uses GEDCOM files and generates the full complement of standard genealogy reports.  And also allows on-line editing of the GEDCOM file.

PhpGEDVIEW has ben around since 2002 and is more or less the "gold standard" of open source genealogy software.  Guess it's my own dumb fault it took me so long to find it!