I live in Porto Alegre, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, the southmost state in Brazil. I'm a Computer Science professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, in Porto Alegre. If you are looking for my home page at the University, please use the link in the left navigation bar.

Technical details

The basis of this site is TNG a set of PHP scripts that manage a MySQL database that contains the family trees.

In order to update the family trees, I'm using PAF. After the update, data is exported in GEDCOM format and uploaded to the site via TNG.

I received the Benckes and the Diefenthaelers family trees as MS Word files in the form of descendent reports each one in a different format. In order to transform them into GEDCOM I wrote two PERL scripts.