Comment by gerdesj

I personally think that Webtrees might be the best bet but that is GEDCOM based and GEDCOM cannot store certain things. My relative is an expert in genealogy and if they say that GEDCOM doesn't cut it then it probably doesn't, eventually. I suggest you look into Webtrees - its a LAMP job.

My relative uses The Master Genealogist (TMG) which is no longer developed. We are both Linux users and he uses Wine bottles to keep it alive. I will probably end up hosting a Win XP VM for it.

Geneweb is seeing renewed development and is really fast. The plan is to migrate to Geneweb. The fields that TMG has that GEDCOM can't handle are turned into NOTES which is probably good enough.

You do not have to get to grips with OCAML to run it. The Github releases shield you from that. It is a bit idiosyncratic but it does work!

Genealogy is a very deep and complicated subject with as many opinions as there are practitioners. You could try both Webtrees and Geneweb and use GEDCOM to act as an intermediary data format until you decide which to use full time. Do make sure you listen to her. She may potentially have some "odd" ideas about data that may not have occurred to you. Be warned - genealogists are a breed apart and any reasonably serious one has damn good reasons for that! There are also quite a few reasons for becoming a genealogist as well as methods used.