Copy and paste this code into the official Treebard file structure (see treebard.com/repo.html) with the official designated Treebard file names and you're good to go. Each file's correct name and path, as well as its last-changed date, will be found at the top of that file.

Sub-boards: root, assertions, colorizer, dates, dev-tools, do-list, error-messages, families, files, findings-table, gallery, graphics, images, links, main, messages, notes, message-context-help, opening, person-maker, persons, places, query-strings, repositories, right-click-menu, roles, scrolling, search, toykinter-widgets, utes, widgets

These are sample database files that work with the current version of Treebard available from this repo. See treebard.com/repo.html for the app's directory structure.

Sub-boards: global-db, default-new-tree, great-lakes-heatons, sample-tree, gregory-tree, default-untouched, global-untouched

Descriptions of the various directories where Treebard stores images, and their respective reasons for existing.

Sub-boards: tree-images, default-images, menu-icons, titlebar-images, openpic-images, favicon, extra-default-images, interactivemania-icons

Genieware should be easy to learn and use, no matter how many complicated things it has to do behind the scenes. That "steep learning curve" you've heard so much about is an excuse for not taking the user into account when designing the software.

Unlike what you'll see from some genealogists, GEDCOM is not a standard. It's a file sharing utility. It's not a database. It doesn't let two apps talk to each other. It's an intermediary between two apps which can't talk to each other because they have different data storage structures.

It's not necessary to say where you found the misfeature, but please register your opinion here so Treebard can demonstrate a correction if applicable. What's wrong with existing genieware, applications, online and stand-alone?

This is the opposite of the case where two real people are combined into one pseudo-person. In this case, one person is treated as two or more people due to a name change or double identity.

Thousands of lines of code now work together fairly well. To get the current Treebard experience, install Python 3.9 for Windows and try the code. The program is far from finished. THIS IS NOT CURRENT CODE. Most of it has been rewritten many times by now and would be deleted except I want everyone to see what a busy beaver I've been.

Here's what Treebard looks like so far. Working code will be made available on request.

I'll be using this as a blog or venting post to talk to myself and anyone who can listen about why the Treebard project exists and what I hope to accomplish.

After years of creating websites and then using Python to make my own standalone app, I'm still a beginner. I'm not here to brag about my code, but some of the functionalities I've developed are worth passing on. Improvements are always welcome.