GedView4.3.10 - App Store

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.

Version History Fixes problems with large media items contained inline in GEDCOM files when importing (BLOB)

Added support for Ancestral Quest's BLOB format. ("Encode scrapbook items" when exporting from AQ) 4.3.10 06/01/2025 Fixes potential problem when exporting where a loop exists within family groups.
Fixes performance regression with importing large trees. 4.3.9 04/01/2024 Fixes crash adding non-photo media items on iPad 4.3.8 03/13/2024 Fix problem with place definitions from the likes of Legacy where a place could be duplicated if events at that location didn't match the latitude / longitude of the place definition.

Source citations attached to names are added to the person when importing rather than being lost.
Place definition abbreviations are no longer set if they match the full name of the place. 4.3.7 02/11/2024 Fixes import / export of notes connected to places.
Fixes issue with surname prefixes and the people index.
Fixes issue with Trees view causing app to exit.
Fixes potential issue in about view for a tree.
Bonjour entries will appear again when importing/exporting files via the built in web server.
Workaround broken _SHAR that incorrectly escape @ symbols.

When importing and a surname prefix has been provided this value will be stripped from the start of the surname field to avoid duplication.
Added a setting to allow notes on places to be added against the event/fact instead (avoids event specific notes appearing on the place record) 4.3.6 09/13/2023 Fix issue on gallery view when an image can't be loaded. 4.3.5 04/16/2022 Fixed editing on about screen (tree description, researcher name).
Fixed issue when looking up a location on the places screen.
Fixed memory leaks with photos.
Fixed issue with surname list not updating when changing a surname prefix
Fixed performance regression when viewing individuals for a surname that was introduced when support for name parts was added.
More zip file handling tweaks.

Replaced thumbnail generation code with standard iOS method. 4.3.4 04/05/2022 Fixes additional issue with error reporting when unzipping media items. 4.3.3 03/30/2022 Fixed some memory leaks
Added extra checks around import process for better error reporting.

Added ability to restore the built in Royal tree.
Added ability to view notes as html rather than raw text. 4.3.2 03/25/2022 Fixes add spouse on the person details always adding the current person as father in the family groups.
Fixes people not appearing in the list after selecting a surname when the case of the name differs, e.g. all upper case. 4.3.1 01/30/2022 Added support for name parts: prefix, surname prefix, suffix, nickname.

Fixed note display in family group sheet.
Fixed dark mode support for reports.
Fixed issue with dark mode in search, timeline, and image gallery thumbnail views.
Fixed name length calculation in pedigree reports.
Fixed problem trying to rename a tree on export that contained invalid characters.
Fixed section headings when filtering indexes.
Fixed problem when viewing a photo from a search result in the image media gallery. 4.3.0 12/05/2021 Added support for reading middle names in non standard gedcom files that use _MIDN or SECG. Middle names will be appended to given name. 4.2.16 11/22/2021 Fixes problems opening gedcoms from the Files app. 4.2.15 11/19/2021 Fixes source search only working against the first letter
Fixes problems with very large zip files and either not locating the gedcom file or not including all photos etc.
Fixes problem when de-duplicating repositories and a source repository points to a non existent repository. 4.2.14 04/11/2021 Fixes issue with showing media items beyond the first two. 4.2.13 11/30/2020 Pedigree report tweak to improve initial zoom level. 4.2.12 11/15/2020 When exporting the primary photo will now be flagged, required for programs like Family Tree Builder to correctly display the photo for a person. 4.2.11 10/18/2020 Fixed problem with shared events resulting in an event being assigned when someone is e.g. just a witness to the event. Shared events are now only imported for each individual where the event / fact is a Census or Residence event/fact, or no role is provided, or the role given is Principal.
Added setting to revert to the previous shared event behaviour. 4.2.10 09/29/2020 Fixes import of names where a surname formatted as per GEDCOM specification is not present, the name will now be treated as a given name rather than a surname.
Fixes potential error when importing names where either a surname and a given name are not provided.
Fixes problem viewing source citations / sources that do not contain any fields.

Updated user manual covering additional settings.
Added setting to control where notes/media from older format Source records appear, either the current behaviour of applying to the citation record, or when enabled applying to the source record. 4.2.9 08/03/2020 Fixed issue when importing files which deviate from the GEDCOM specification for the maximum size of an xrefid.

Support added for exporting photos/other media in an alternative method to improve compatibility with older software which doesn't support GEDCOM 5.5.1 linked media records.
Support added to specify a folder name to appear in the photo/other media filenames in the GEDCOM file. When set to where you unzip the exported file this should improve compatibility with importing into other programs. 4.2.8 05/30/2020 Fixes downloading of gedcom files only working with https and not http 4.2.7 05/25/2020 Fixes a problem when editing a generic fact (type of other)
Fixes a problem with the family group sheet not showing medical information where there are medical facts (type of other, classification Medical)
Fixes occasional problem on display in all views. 4.2.6 04/26/2020 Added support for downloading gedcom files from FindMyPast.co.uk when using the "Download From Website" method of importing. (not supported if you use your Facebook login for FindMyPast)
Added history to "Download From Website" import method.

Fixed problem showing the wrong photos in landscape mode when filtering thumbnails.
Fixed problem in "Download From Website" view where the keyboard would disappear. 4.2.5 04/18/2020 Fixed memory issues on older devices on import.
Fixed display of source media from citations on iPad and larger screen iPhones in landscape mode. 4.2.4 02/29/2020 Fixed incorrect bookmark list showing when selecting a list for exporting
Fixed potential crash when exporting 4.2.3 09/21/2019