README

LeafSeek
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* Welcome to LeafSeek *
(Set Your Records Free!)

LeafSeek is a new tool that helps you turn your genealogical or historical record collections into searchable online databases. Combine multiple datasets of different types -- such as birth, marriage, and military records -- into one unified searchable website. Find inter-connections in your data that you never noticed before.

With great features like built-in geo-spatial searches, pop-up Google Maps, Beider-Morse Phonetic Matching, name synonyms, and language localization, LeafSeek can help you turn your spreadsheets of names and dates into a full-featured genealogy search engine. It's designed for researchers and genealogy societies alike.

Oh, and one more thing: LeafSeek is free and open source. No strings attached.

LeafSeek is based on Apache Solr (version 3.6 pre-release) for the back-end code, and the Solarium Project (version 2.3), PHP, XHTML, CSS, and jQuery for the front-end code.


- LeafSeek home page, blog, and rudimentary documentation

Check out http://www.leafseek.com/


- For more information

Home page for Apache Solr:
https://lucene.apache.org/solr/

Home page for Solarium:
http://www.solarium-project.org/


- Changelog

LeafSeek version 1.0 was released on Saturday, January 21, 2012.  Comments, feature requests, bug reports, and code additions are most welcome!


- License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0


- Author

LeafSeek was put together and is maintained by Brooke Schreier Ganz (Twitter: @Asparagirl).