GEDvisual turns a GEDCOM file, the standard export format of genealogy programs, into a website of your
family tree that anyone can browse.
How it works
- Export a GEDCOM file from your genealogy program. Almost every program can do this, for example
Gramps, Family Tree Maker, RootsMagic, Legacy, Aldfaer and GensDataPro; online services such as
MyHeritage and Ancestry also let you download your tree as a GEDCOM file.
- Sign up and create a publication. Its name
becomes the web address, for example www.gedvisual.org/my-family.
- Upload the GEDCOM file, and the photos and documents it refers to.
- Share the link with your family.
The views
- Family sheet: a couple with their children.
- Ancestors: a person with their parents and grandparents.
- Male lineage: from father to father, as far back as the tree goes.
- Female lineage: from mother to mother.
- Personal record: everything about one person: events, occupations, residences,
notes, sources, photos and documents.
- Index: everyone in the tree, sorted by ID, first name, last name or date,
with a search on names.
See the example views on the home page.
Living persons
Persons who may still be alive are hidden automatically: their name and details are shown as [PRIVATE],
and they are left out of the index, the search and search engines. Read more in the
privacy statement.
Sizes
A GEDCOM file can be up to 5 MB (tens of thousands of persons), and photos
and documents up to 25 MB each.