Open GED files in your browser
The file every family tree app exports and imports, from Ancestry and MyHeritage to Gramps. Open one right here, every person and how they're related, with no genealogy app. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your family tree opens on its people, each one's parents, partners, children, ancestors and descendants a click away.
- Every person • Filter and sort by name, birth or death
- Four generations of ancestors • Three of descendants
- Each life's events by date • Notes and sources
- Export • Save the people as CSV
About GED
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made GEDCOM in 1984 so family historians could share their research between programs. Most apps still write version 5.5 or 5.5.1, and FamilySearch published 7.0 in 2021, with GEDZip (.gdz) for a tree zipped with its pictures.
A GED is lines of text, each with a level, a tag and a value: INDI records for people with their names, births, deaths and other events, FAM records joining partners and their children, and SOUR records for the sources behind them. Older files are often in ANSEL, a character set for accented letters that few programs still read right.
Filepeek reads it in your browser, ANSEL, UTF-8 and UTF-16 alike, and lists every person to filter and sort by name, birth, death or birthplace. A person's card shows their life's events by date, their parents and siblings, each family with its children, four generations of ancestors and three of descendants, and their notes and sources. Tree shows every record as the file has it, and Export saves the people as CSV.
GEDCOM Family Tree
.ged • .gedcom • .gdz
Format
- MIME type
- text/vnd.familysearch.gedcom
- Made by
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Released
- 1984
Inside the file
- People
- Names, sex and the events of each life
- Families
- Partners and their children
- Sources
- Where each fact was found, with notes
- Written as
- Lines of a level, a tag and a value
Opens in every browser
Browsers download GED files. Filepeek opens them in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, GEDCOM 5.5, 5.5.1 and 7.0 alike.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open GED
- WindowsGramps, free • RootsMagic and Family Tree Maker
- MacMacFamilyTree • Gramps, free
- iPhone and iPadMobileFamilyTree
- AndroidNo app built in opens it
Questions
Why are the accents in names wrong?
Older GED files are often written in ANSEL, a character set made for library catalogs, which most apps read as Windows' own and turn é and ü into odd characters. Filepeek reads ANSEL, so names show as they were typed.
Where are the photos?
A GED only names its pictures' files, so a tree exported from Ancestry or MyHeritage comes without them. A GEDZip (.gdz) carries them zipped with the tree, which opens here, its people as in a GED.
Can I turn a family tree into a spreadsheet?
Yes. Choose Export to save every person as CSV, with their name, sex, birth and death dates and places, and their father and mother.