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GedView

Name: GedView
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.38 (400 reviews)

The professional, subscription-free genealogy tool for serious researchers. Carry your GEDCOM files, records, and family media entirely offline—perfect for field research in archives, cemeteries, and reunions.

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Key Figures

Downloads

188K+

User Rating

3.4/5

Total Ratings

400

Publisher

David Knight

Master Your Family History in the Field

Take your research out of the home and into the world. GedView gives you full offline access to your family tree, documents, and media without any monthly subscriptions.

Full Offline Mobility

No signal? No problem. Access your entire tree, photos, and records in remote cemeteries or archives without needing an internet connection.

Digital Archive in Your Pocket

Store and view PDFs, documents, and home movies. Capture new photos and GPS locations on the fly to document every discovery instantly.

The following screenshots and description are sourced directly from the app's official store listing and are the property of the app developer.

App Store

Screenshots

Detailed person profile in GedView app showing birth death and family relationship information

GedView - Alphabetical index of surnames in the GedView genealogy app showing family name counts — Alphabetical index of surnames in the GedView genealogy app showing family name counts

GedView - GedView app export settings screen showing options to compress files and include media or living people in the family tree export. — GedView app export settings screen showing options to compress files and include media or living people in the family tree export.

GedView - GedView app satellite map interface showing Westminster Abbey with burial event details. — GedView app satellite map interface showing Westminster Abbey with burial event details.

GedView - A chronological timeline of family events including births, marriages, and deaths displayed within the GedView app. — A chronological timeline of family events including births, marriages, and deaths displayed within the GedView app.

GedView - A list of individuals in a family tree showing names and birth details within the GedView app. — A list of individuals in a family tree showing names and birth details within the GedView app.

GedView - A horizontal ancestor chart in the GedView app displaying family relationships with blue and pink coded boxes. — A horizontal ancestor chart in the GedView app displaying family relationships with blue and pink coded boxes.

GedView - A family group sheet display in the GedView app showing historical records for the Wettin family including names and birth dates — A family group sheet display in the GedView app showing historical records for the Wettin family including names and birth dates

GedView - GedView app interface showing family members including parents marriage date and a list of children — GedView app interface showing family members including parents marriage date and a list of children

GedView - Interface of GedView app displaying a list of family branches with marriage dates and number of children — Interface of GedView app displaying a list of family branches with marriage dates and number of children

Description

Family tree research is becoming an ever more popular past time. Normally all of your genealogy information is locked away on your computer at home which isn't much use when you are out and about researching local records, or visiting locations such as graveyards, ancestral homes, or family reunions. This is where GedView comes in. Carry around your entire family tree on your iPhone, iPod, or iPad and have all the data about your ancestors and even current descendants at your fingertips. You can quickly check up on family relationships, dates / locations of events, and record new information. Despite the name GedView is not just a viewing tool. This includes taking photos, or video anywhere and anytime you like without needing to worry about a potentially costly internet connection. If using an iPhone, or a cellular enabled iPad you can even record your current location to add to any event. If your tree contains lots of images you can even use GedView as a slideshow, showing all the pictures related to a given event, person, source, family. You can also play back any home movies you have in your tree. Media support is not limited to photos/video. Support is also included for any other file type your iPhone, iPod, or iPad is capable of opening. This may be PDFs, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, mp3 files. If you have an app installed that supports a specific document type and have a document of that type in your tree you will be able to view it via GedView. Do you have some separate branches in your tree that you haven't connected yet? GedView allows you to store multiple trees so you can easily switch to view distinct branches. Unlike other apps no specific computer application is required, nor is a subscription to any website. Instead standard GEDCOM files can be imported, These can be encoded as ASCII, ANSI, ANSEL, UTF-8, or UTF-16 and can be added to GedView via WiFi, downloading from a website, via iTunes, or even opened from other apps such as Mail, Safari, Dropbox etc. While GedView is targeted towards GEDCOM 5.5.1 it will read in any version, and will also support many custom extensions used by other genealogy applications, and because GEDCOM hasn't been added as an after thought imports are fast and efficient. You can even export GEDCOM files for sharing with family members or other researchers, or to transfer new information to your main computer. A sample family tree containing the British monarchy is included. If you have any problems, or suggestions please get in touch via the support email address.