gedfile.com opens the GEDCOM files exported by Ancestry, MyHeritage, FamilySearch, and Gramps — and turns them into people, families, and places you can actually explore.
Nothing is uploaded. Your file is parsed entirely in your browser and never leaves your device.
Every major genealogy service can export your research as a .ged file. gedfile.com does the rest — no account, no installation, no waiting.
Drag a .ged file into the viewer, or pick it from your device. Exports from Ancestry, MyHeritage, FamilySearch, Gramps, and Family Tree Maker all work.
Individuals, families, events, and places are read locally — including older ANSEL-encoded files and GEDCOM 7 exports. The file never touches a server.
Browse a searchable index of every person — smooth even with tens of thousands of names — and trace ancestry through interactive charts.
gedfile.com is a viewer first: faithful to your file, quick to navigate, and honest about what the data says.
Pan-and-zoom ancestor, descendant and fan charts, up to six generations deep. Click any person to re-root the chart and keep climbing.
A searchable person index with surname, place and year-range views, life timelines, and a calculator that traces how any two people in the file are related.
Flip any profile to its raw GEDCOM record. What you see is exactly what your file says — nothing invented, nothing hidden.
There is no upload step to secure, because there is no upload. Parsing happens on your device, and your last file is remembered locally for next time.
GEDCOM is the lingua franca of family history. Created in 1984, it's a plain-text format where every line carries a level number, a tag, and a value — and together those lines describe people, the families that connect them, and the events of their lives.
Nearly every genealogy program can export one, which makes GEDCOM the way family research moves between tools, between relatives, and between generations of software. The catch: it was designed for programs to read, not people.
gedfile.com reads both the long-standing 5.5.1 standard and the modern 7.0 revision, so files old and new open the same way.
Open it and meet them — or take the sample Lindqvist tree for a spin first.
Open the viewer