Phdtree: create and discover your academic family history

We're a tiny team of two people working on this side project over nights and weekends. Essentially it is a Wiki site that allows users to create &#38; edit their academic family tree. So far all the basic wiki functions like CRUD, tracking edit history, compare different versions, reverting back to previous versions, simple search, advanced search, etc are completed. It is built with Django/Python.<p>We would really appreciate it if Hacker News community can provide some feedback/comments/suggestions. Many many thanks :)

Hmm, how did you get the data? 100% user added wikiness, or did it pull from some other 'tree' sources like Neurotree (<a href="http://neurotree.org/neurotree/" rel="nofollow">http://neurotree.org/neurotree/</a>)?<p>I was able to find my girlfriend, which was pretty cool.<p>One piece of feedback from her to have in the tree itself, is each person's institution.

Similar idea to The Mathematics Genealogy (which is, as the name implies, only for mathematicians).<p><a href="http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/" rel="nofollow">http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/</a>

This is pretty neat, though this was available for math already. I wish you would aggregate some information up the tree, i.e. not only the list of students but a count of the students' students, etc...

Wasn't this posted just a few weeks ago?

I found myself, but some of the info was incorrect. I created an account and edited the record. I wasn't sure where the info came from, but I see it pulls from neurotree (which is also incorrect). Nice front end though, much nicer than neurotree :) Keep up the good work

Just did a search on PG, here is PG's profile: <a href="http://phdtree.org/scholar/graham-paul-2/" rel="nofollow">http://phdtree.org/scholar/graham-paul-2/</a><p>Didn't know he had a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard in the early 90s.

doesn't seem to work.. neither for myself or my former phd supervisor.

Blimey, my family history goes back to Leibniz, made my day.