About Betty
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Philosophy
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Betty builds sites that tell a story. Raw family data is visualized in different, sometimes interactive ways.
Additional information is added automatically from a variety of third-party sources, augmenting your family trees
with further encyclopedic information, imagery, and maps.

Name
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Betty was named after `Liberta "Betty" Lankester <https://ancestry.bartfeenstra.com/en/person/I0004/>`_, grandmother
to the original project author.

What is Betty not?
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Betty does not help you gather or manage the data for your family history. For that purpose, use a product such as
`Gramps <https://gramps-project.org>`_, or a service like `Ancestry.com <https://www.ancestry.com>`_.

Find Betty on
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- `Twitter <https://twitter.com/Betty_Project>`_
- `Github <https://github.com/bartfeenstra/betty>`_
- `PyPI <https://pypi.org/project/betty>`_

In this section
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- :doc:`/about/contributing`
- :doc:`/about/license`
- :doc:`/about/versions`
- :doc:`/about/sponsors`