GEDCOM to CSV — a family tree as a table
Convert a GEDCOM (.ged) file to CSV: one line per person with names, dates and places of birth, death and burial, parents, spouses and children. Opens in Excel with accents intact. In your browser.
About this conversion
CSV is the plainest table there is: every spreadsheet, database and script reads it. Each person becomes one line with the same columns as the Excel export — names, sex, birth, death and burial dates and places, occupation, parents, spouses, marriage, children and notes — and the file's IDs, so links between people survive a round trip. The file starts with the marker Excel needs to read UTF-8, so names like Łukasiewicz, Müller or Петренко open correctly instead of turning into strange characters.
Just want to look inside it?
The same tool without converting anything: open the file and read it.
The same tree, other ways
The tree stays open after it is read, so the format is picked at the end: the same file can leave here as PDF, Word (.docx), Excel (.xlsx), HTML, TXT, JSON, PNG, JPG, XML or SVG. Before that you can walk through it person by person, print it as a chart or a book, find people who were entered twice, hide the living, and correct names and dates.
Questions
- Which separator does it use?
- A comma, with quotes around any value that contains one. The CSV to GEDCOM page also reads semicolon- and tab-separated files.