GedScape GEDCOM Viewer and Website Publisher for Windows and Mac

GedScape is a Windows and Mac program for browsing, manipulating, converting and extracting data from GEDCOM files. It is the ideal GEDCOM viewer and converter, an essential tool for genealogists.

Easily view individuals and families, including photos, citations and notes with a simple, intuitive browser-style interface.
Simply drag a GEDCOM file, drop it onto GedScape, and immediately you can browse a fully indexed family tree.
Its incredibly fast allowing you to rapidly view GEDCOM's without having to create other database files on your computer or load into your existing genealogy software.
View indexes of individuals, dates & places, charts including pedigrees, family charts, descendants charts.
Display summary tables of individuals with links to their individual records (e.g. sample 1 and sample 2)
Create reports e.g. for ancestors and descendants with photos and narrative descriptions.
View image gallery of all photos.
Browse the low-level structure of a GEDCOM file (i.e. at the tag level) but with hyperlinks to move within the file (sample).
Generate powerful GEDCOM web sites with all the display features of GedScape itself (i.e., its an GEDCOM to HTML converter) (sample).
Convert GEDCOM files to text/CSV files e.g. to extract GEDCOM data to spreadsheets such as Excel.
Export new GEDCOM files with character set and text file conversion. Supports all valid character sets defined by GEDCOM 5.5.1 including ANSEL.
Selectively exclude or 'privatize' chosen data/individuals from conversion/extraction or website generation, e.g. to remove specific individuals (and/or their ancestors/descendants), or to exclude individuals based on their date of birth so as to remove living people.
Tag individuals to highlight them including in generated GEDCOM HTML pages.
Supports the entire GEDCOM v5.5.1 specification so you can display all valid data.

GedScape is available for download in both free and paid versions. We now have a native Mac version. To get the paid version please purchase a copy. GedScape generates powerful websites from GEDCOM files such as this sample site. Whether you use it as a standalone GEDCOM viewer/browser or as a convenient tool to export GEDCOM files as HTML, a near identical user interface is used; so browsing this sample site will also give you a good idea of the kind of features GedScape provides when displaying GEDCOM's locally on your computer. A comprehensive help file is included that you can access either online or locally on your computer. If you have any questions just contact us. To be kept informed of updates and changes to GedScape please join our mailing list.

Please note, GedScape is not a genealogy database program i.e. this is not software you can use to key in and build up a family tree or genealogy database. For that, we suggest you google for "genealogy software" and take your pick. GedScape is a utility for easily displaying, converting, extracting and generating web sites from existing GEDCOM files.

Common Uses

You're a genealogy researcher and you need a quick and easy way to browse GED files without the hassle of importing them into your existing genealogy database
- GedScape is a great GEDCOM browser, just double-click the GEDCOM files from Windows explorer and they immediately display in GedScape using a browser-like display.
You want to import selected individuals only from a GEDCOM into your genealogy database
- open in GedScape, tag the individuals you want, export as a new GED file, then import that into your genealogy database.
You want to share a subset of your family tree with others
- export a GEDCOM from your genealogy database, open that in GedScape, tag the individuals you want to share, re-export just the tagged individuals as a new GED file which you then distribute.
You have a GEDCOM from a different system or platform which your genealogy database wont import
- open the GEDCOM in GedScape, then re-export as a new GEDCOM using a different character set e.g. to convert from ANSEL, ANSI etc to UTF (Unicode).
You want to remove all the citations, and/or notes, and/or multimedia, from a GEDCOM
- open the GEDCOM in GedScape, then re-export as a new GEDCOM but exclude citations/notes/multimedia.
You want to transfer data from a GEDCOM into a spreadsheet e.g. Excel (i.e. convert GEDCOM to text)
- open the GEDCOM file in GedScape, re-export as a text/CSV file, then open that in the spreadsheet.
You want to create a family tree website and your existing genealogy program isn't up to the job
- export a GEDCOM from your genealogy database, open that in GedScape, adjust preferences to get the appearance you would like in your GEDCOM website, export from GedScape as a web site (thereby creating GEDCOM HTML files), then upload the HTML files to your web server.
You need to save your genealogy data as a GEDCOM suitable for import on a different platform e.g. a Mac, or into a legacy genealogy program that requires ANSEL or ANSI format
- export a GEDCOM from your genealogy database, open that in GedScape, then re-export as a new GED file using whichever character set and/or line endings you need. GedScape supports virtually all character sets used in GEDCOM files.

Pro vs. Free Trial

GedScape is available as both a Free trial and a Pro version. As you would expect, the Pro version has some advantages over the free trial:

It will open GEDCOM files of any size (the Free version is limited to 2,500 individuals)
All the export options are enabled (i.e. export to web, text/CSV (i.e. to spreadsheets such as Excel) and GEDCOM)
You can export individual reports as standalone web pages, with optional removal/privatization of recent and/or living individuals
You can print any page
Tagged records will be restored when you reopen a previously viewed GEDCOM file
Support/Updates: get email support and updates
The free trial is limited ot 30 days use

To test any of the features of the full version but using the free trial, run GedScape and choose Open Sample GEDCOM from the File menu. (The sample GEDCOM provided has all the full features enabled, even if you only have the free trial).

The GEDCOM file format is the de facto standard for exchanging genealogy data. All good genealogy database programs can generate GEDCOM files. The GEDCOM standard is defined by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.