GEDCOM to PDF — print a family tree from a .ged file
Turn a GEDCOM (.ged) family tree into a PDF chart — ancestors, descendants, fan, hourglass or all relatives, on one page, on a poster or on A4 sheets to glue together — or into a family history book. In your browser, nothing uploaded.
About this conversion
A .ged file holds a family tree as text, and on its own it prints as pages of codes. Here the tree is read in the page and drawn: pick a person and the chart shows their ancestors, their descendants with every spouse and child, a half-circle fan chart, an hourglass with ancestors above and descendants below, or all relatives — aunts, uncles and cousins on one chart — as many generations as the file holds. The PDF is made by your browser's print dialog, fitted to the paper you choose, from A4 and Letter up to an A0 poster, or printed at full size across ordinary sheets with an overlap for gluing. Names in any alphabet print as they are written, with every accent. For a written account rather than a chart, the same file makes a family history book.
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 Word (.docx), Excel (.xlsx), CSV, 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
- Why does a print window open?
- That is how the PDF is made: choose “Save as PDF” as the destination (in Firefox, “Save to PDF”). The paper size is already set for the chart.
- Can I print a very large tree?
- Yes. Pick a large paper size for a print shop, or “A4 sheets to glue together” to print it at full size at home: every sheet is numbered by row and column and overlaps the next by 8 mm.
- Is the file uploaded?
- No. It is read by this page on your own computer and is not sent anywhere.