Yes: open a .ged together with its photos folder and choose Save tree as → GEDZIP.

Open a GDZ (GEDZIP) file

Drop the .gdz and the tree opens with its photos: portraits on each person’s card and in the family history book.

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What a .gdz file is

GEDZIP is the zip form of GEDCOM 7, the newest version of the genealogy standard: the family tree file (gedcom.ged) and the photos, scans and documents it links to, in one archive.

Few programs read it yet. Here the archive is opened in the page, every picture matched to the person it belongs to, and the tree can be saved as a plain .ged for older programs, or as a book or charts that include the photos.

What you can do here

Old files tooTrees saved in the old ANSEL character set, by PAF or early Family Tree Maker, open with every accent in its place: Łukasiewicz stays Łukasiewicz.

Any programEach genealogy program writes GEDCOM its own way. The quirks of Ancestry, MyHeritage, Family Tree Maker, RootsMagic, Legacy and others are read and kept when the tree is saved again.

Messy dates“abt 1890”, “12.03.1890”, Julian dates with a double year, Hebrew and French Republican calendars — read as dates, sorted in the right order, and rewritten in the standard form if you want.

Questions

Can I make a .gdz?: Yes: open a .ged together with its photos folder and choose Save tree as → GEDZIP.