MyHeritage exports a GEDCOM from the Manage trees page. It takes about a minute.

The steps

  1. Sign in and hover over Family tree in the top menu.
  2. Choose Manage trees.
  3. Find the tree. Under Actions, click Export to GEDCOM.
  4. MyHeritage prepares the file and offers a download, or emails a link for larger trees.
  5. Save the .ged file.

Labels are as of mid-2026. If Export to GEDCOM has moved, it is still on the Manage trees page.

What is in the file

People, relationships, dates, places, notes, and citations. MyHeritage adds a couple of tags of its own (an update timestamp called _UPD, and record identifiers). GED-VIEW reads them.

What is not in the file

  • Photos and documents. MyHeritage exports the tree, not the images. Photo references may be present, but they point at MyHeritage's servers, so a viewer on your computer cannot show them. To have the photos on your disk, download them from the MyHeritage photo pages.
  • Smart Matches, Record Matches, DNA data, and anything MyHeritage computed rather than you entered.

A note about sources

MyHeritage creates source citations automatically when a Record Match or Smart Match is accepted. Those are real citations, but their titles are generic ("MyHeritage Family Trees", for example) and they can outnumber the hand-entered ones. On GED-VIEW's Sources page, sorting by citation count shows them at the top. Nothing is wrong; it is useful to know which sources are your work and which are the site's.

Next

Open the file in GED-VIEW. If you also want the photos, download them from MyHeritage into one folder and connect that folder as the media folder. Matching is by file name, so keep the names MyHeritage gives them.