Most of the app is organized by person. The Events page is organized by time: every dated fact in the file, from the earliest baptism to the most recent death, in one list grouped by decade.

It changes how a file reads. Six people died in 1918. The whole family moved counties between 1880 and 1890. Nothing at all was recorded for forty years.

The layout

Down the side is the navigator. A file spanning more than about three centuries is divided into centuries; shorter files get decades or five-year blocks. Only blocks that contain events appear. Click one and the list scrolls there. As you scroll, the block you are in stays highlighted.

The main list is grouped by decade. Each event shows the type (birth, death, marriage, burial, or other), the date as written in the file, the person's name, and the place. Click the name to go to that person.

Filters

  • Type. Births only, deaths only, and so on. The count next to each type shows how many there are before you click.
  • Place. Narrow to one place, or one region if the places are structured. Events with no place drop out once a place is chosen.
  • Year range. Two sliders. "Everything the family did during the war years" is two drags.
  • Search. A name, a place, or a word from the event label. Accents are ignored, so searching for Muller finds Müller and Novak finds Novák.

Filters combine: "deaths, in Ireland, between 1845 and 1852" is three clicks.

Very large files

If a decade contains thousands of events, GED-VIEW shows the first batch and offers a button for more. Drawing fifty thousand rows at once is what makes browsers freeze.

Export

The Events page exports exactly as filtered, to PDF (two densities: Comfortable and Compact), and its table view exports to Excel and CSV. Before a PDF starts, GED-VIEW estimates the page count and asks if it is going to be huge.

Next

Open Events and drag the year sliders to the decade your grandparents were born. See who else was being born, marrying and dying around them.