What's new

The biggest additions, month by month, and what is planned next.

October 2026v1.8.0

  • Editing: switch on edit mode and change people and families right on their pages, in the tables, on the tree and on the charts, with undo and redo. Your changes are kept as a draft in your browser until you download the new file.
  • "Start a new tree": a new file with one person, opened for editing.
  • The relation report between any two people, through marriages as well as by blood.
  • Associations and witnesses on profiles.
  • The Pro page. Every Pro feature is free for a limited time.
  • More guides.
  • Dates and month names shown in the language you chose for the site.
  • The same controls on the tree and on every chart: search, filters, style, tools, export and zoom.
  • A better fit on phones across every page.

September 2026

  • Convert: between GEDCOM 5.5.1, 5.5.5 and 7, GEDZIP, GEDCOM X, Gramps XML and Gramps CSV, and for the common programs, with a report of what changed.
  • Merge trees, Split tree and Remove branch.
  • Compare files and Find duplicates.
  • Privatize living people, Repair file, Standardize places and dates, and Anonymize.
  • The timeline chart reaches more ancestors.

August 2026

  • The archive becomes the Sources page: every source, who cites it and for what.
  • Media folders: connect a folder of photos and documents and see them on profiles and in the gallery.
  • Tables for families, sources, events and places.
  • Place issues and Source coverage: which people and events still need a source.
  • The Support page and the first Guides.
  • The Ancestor chart, then the Hourglass, Fan and Timeline charts.
  • A street map on the Places page.
  • GEDCOM 7, GEDZIP and ANSEL files open too.
  • Place names matched against a much larger list of towns.
  • Annual events: a date without a year repeats every year on the calendar.

July 2026

  • Exports: the tree to PDF on one page or many, or to PNG, and the other pages to PDF.
  • A preview of every export before you download it.
  • Files up to 80 MB.
  • Calendar export to ICS, for your own calendar app.
  • The File editor: the open file as text.
  • A tree theme builder with a color picker.
  • The Notes page and the Saved Data page.
  • The Families page.
  • Filter the timeline and the map by place; search the tree by any field.
  • Replace an open file with a newer copy.
  • More statistics on the Overview.

June 2026

  • The History page: which people and families changed most recently, from the dates in the file.
  • A button that clears everything the site keeps in your browser.
  • A new look for the whole site.

May 2026

  • Tree filters, and buttons to expand, collapse, minimize or maximize every branch at once.
  • The Overview page with the family statistics, and age on profiles.
  • The Timeline page.
  • Tree themes.
  • The interactive tutorial.
  • Sample trees to explore.
  • Files kept in your browser between visits, several at once.
  • The Places page with a map.
  • The whole GEDCOM file is read now, not only the people and the families: events, attributes, notes, sources and media, with a progress bar; files up to 12 MB.
  • Drag and drop to open a file.
  • The site in 60 languages, with the translations generated automatically.
  • Calendar views and a date picker.
  • The Issues page: the data problems found in the file, in one report.
  • Charts: the descendant chart and the relation report.

April 2026

  • The site moves to ged-view.com.
  • Searching the tree jumps to the person.

February 2026

  • GED-VIEW opens to everyone: open your own GEDCOM file and see it the way the family site showed ours, with the tree, profiles, the people table, the calendar, the archive and the gallery, all in your browser and nothing uploaded.

January 2026

  • Notes on profiles.

December 2025

  • A help page: what each page shows and how to read the tree.

November 2025

  • The tree and the pages remember where you were when you come back.

October 2025

  • Several family lines on one site, each with its own tree and table.

September 2025

  • The tree on phones: pinch to zoom, tap a card for the details.

August 2025

  • Events on profiles, in order: birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial.

July 2025

  • A newer tree engine: square cards and cleaner links between generations.

June 2025

  • A photo in every row of the people table.

May 2025

  • Burial places on every card, large trees included.

April 2025

  • Places on profiles: where someone was born, married and buried.

March 2025

  • The family site goes live for the relatives.
  • Maiden names on the cards, on profiles and in the table.

February 2025

  • The gallery: every photo in the file, with captions, search and faster loading.
  • Photos on the home page.
  • A contact page and a newsletter signup.

January 2025

  • The calendar of birthdays and anniversaries.
  • Birth and death markers on the tree.
  • Search and filters in the people table.
  • The archive: documents and records, with a PDF viewer of its own.

December 2024

  • Zoom, full screen and a minimap on the tree.
  • Expand and collapse branches of the tree.
  • Photos on profiles.

November 2024

  • The tree grows up: photos on the cards, years of birth and death, couples joined, and a card with the details when you click a person.
  • A profile page for each person, opened from the tree.
  • The people table: everyone in the file, sortable by any column.

October 2024

  • The beginning: a website to share one family's tree with its relatives.
  • The first step was reading the GEDCOM file: the people and the families came out of it first, nothing else yet.
  • The first family tree: parents above, children below, drag to move around.