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# About Betty

## Philosophy

### Storytelling

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.

### Simplicity

Anyone should be able to generate a site and view it. We aim for Betty to be simple to use, out of the box, for everyone.

### Speed

Betty sites are fast. Faster than most other sites we use on a daily basis.

### Security and maintenance

A Betty site is secure and requires almost no maintenance.

Important

This is about generated sites. You are still advised to install updates to your installation of Betty when they become available.

### What is Betty not?

Betty does not help you gather or manage the data for your family history. For that purpose, use a product such as Gramps, or a service like Ancestry.com.

## Find Betty on

- Twitter

- Github

- PyPI

## In this section

- Contributing to Betty

- Copyright & license