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Rodovid breaks 100,000 records

Rodovid's database of genealogical records exceeded 100,000 on 3 December 2007. It took almost a year to double the number of records from 50,000, which was reached on 25 December 2006. The Rodovid development team and sysops from all the localizations are grateful to all the contributors for their continuous effort.

About

Rodovid is a free multilingual family tree portal. Anyone can access, edit and add to it. Rodovid uses its own family tree software, called Rodovid Engine, to create cohesive family trees. This family tree maker is probably the most advanced Web-based technology to date, especially in terms of its ability to generate very large trees containing dozens of generations and thousands of people. It is far beyond the capabilities of any computer-based family tree makers and Web-based technologies from paid websites. There is no need to pay any money for creating and sharing your family tree when you have Rodovid!

Rodovid is powered by the MediaWiki content management system (the same is used by Wikipedia), which allows those familiar with it to work with content at ease.

More detailed information about Rodovid is available at the About Rodovid page.

First-time visitors are advised to read Help to learn how to get started.

Statistics

• There are currently 142746 individual records about people and 34379 records about families in the Rodovid database, with 43306 people and 9734 families added in the English localization.
• Rodovid Statistics and Rodovid Milestones for all the localizations.

Examples of Family Trees

Famous People

• Did you know that Che Guevara's paternal grandmother was of direct Irish origin? Have a look at his family tree.
• Did you know that the name Vincent was very popular in the family of the famous Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh? Learn more from his grandfather's family tree.
• Do you like classical music? If so, you might be interested in having a look at the genealogy of the Austrian Strauss family of composers.
• Take a look at this huge family tree (may take a few minutes to load) linking royal families in Europe. There are currently 44 generations listed starting from the ancient rulers of the Kyiv Rus and ending with the children of Princess Diana and Prince Charles.
• Do you like thrash metal music? If so, you might be interested in the Franco German origins of Megadeth founder Dave Mustaine.

If you feel like contributing to the development of the above-mentioned trees, please, do. Your effort will be appreciated by our growing community!

Users' Trees

• Have a look at the ancestors of some of our users: an English user, a Ukrainian user, a Portuguese user.