UncleGED is...
NOT a character in a very funny 1960's sitcom... that was Uncle Jed Clampett, kin to the Bodine family... no relation.
One of the biggest hassles of maintaining my genealogy website (Gathering Leaves) over the past few years has been keeping the my web documentation in sync with my database. When I first started out I created many of the pages by hand. At that time I thought that I had reach the limit of what I might learn further about my family history. Oh, how wrong I was!
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:
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....
....I finished up on Sunday morning of that same weekend.