Cloud hosting and administration

Our goal: $1,600 (UAH 67,200)

The Rodovid.org genealogy website is hosted on the AWS cloud servers in Ireland. Its servers process about 1.5 million requests daily, ensuring stable operation of its 25 language versions for almost 80 thousand registered users.

You can support this project by donating any amount you can afford.

MediaWiki update

To simplify Rodovid users’ work with genealogical records, which are essentially plain text, the functionality of editing content on the website was radically enriched in December 2005 by the introduction of the MediaWiki content management system. Currently, the Rodovid.org website runs on MediaWiki software (version 1.9.3 from 2007). A step-by-step transition to the latest version of MediaWiki (version 1.44.0, the latest version in 2025) is planned.

Search

The Rodovid.org genealogical website uses a special plugin for MediaWiki, written in 2010, to search for data in genealogical records. However, basic full-text search in MediaWiki has been disabled due to some bugs in the program code. To implement full-text and analytical search capabilities, it is planned to switch to the Elasticsearch system, which, in particular, will allow searching for data by any search term in any language version, and will also significantly expand the existing functionality for searching across genealogical data.

Toponyms

Unification of names of all the settlements with the visualization of historical changes.

Curated trees

Introduction of trees created by user-curators based on verified data.

Educational materials

Creating presentations, lectures, and videos for educational programs.