GEDCOM to JSON — a family tree for programs and scripts
Convert a GEDCOM (.ged) file to JSON: people with names, sex and events, families with partners and children, and sources — with the encodings, dates and program quirks already sorted out.
About this conversion
Writing your own GEDCOM reader means dealing with ANSEL text from old programs, CONC and CONT line splitting, a dozen date styles and every program's own tags. This page does that part and hands over clean JSON: a list of people with names, sex, events (type, readable date, the original GEDCOM date and place) and the families they belong to, a list of families with partners, children and events, and the sources. IDs are the ones in the file, so the result can be joined back to the original.
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), CSV, HTML, TXT, 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.