awesome-gedcom

GEDCOM utilities that will ease the pain

Contents

• awesome-gedcom
  • Contents
  • Converters
    • CSV
    • DOT
    • GEDCOM X
    • JSON
    • RDF
    • SQL
    • XML
  • Editors
  • Tools
  • Parsers
    • Dart
    • .NET
    • Clojure
    • Go
    • Java
    • JavaScript/Node.js
    • Objective-C
    • PHP
    • Python
    • R
    • Ruby
    • Rust
    • Scala
  • Visualization
    • TypeScript
  • License

Converters

CSV

• FTAnalyzer - FTAnalyzer let's you export GEDCOM file to .csv file, has GUI, available for Windows and Mac
• twineconvert - In-browser GEDCOM to CSV converter. No install, no upload, files stay on your device. Preserves family relationships via FAM/INDI ID links and keeps fuzzy dates ("BEF 1850", "ABT JUN 1923") as strings instead of forcing ISO.

DOT

• ged2dot - GEDCOM to Graphviz converter

GEDCOM X

• gedcom5-conversion - Utilities for GEDCOM 5.5 to GEDCOM X Conversion

JSON

• GEDCOMToJSONConverter - Convert GEDCOM genealogy file to a JSON representation
• twineconvert - In-browser GEDCOM to JSON converter. Outputs hierarchical JSON with individuals, families, sources, and event references already linked by ID. Useful for feeding family-tree data into D3, React, or any web visualization without writing a parser.

RDF

• GedcomRDF - Gedcom and Genealogy information in Semantic Web format, using RDF serialization format(s)
• gedcom-foaf - Output FOAF files from Gedcom individuals and families
• gedcom2sem - Flexible conversion via RDF/TTL to KML/FOAF and other SPARQL queries using LOD

SQL

• gedcom-tools

XML

• gedcomparser - GEDCOM parser, convert an GEDCOM raw data file into XML

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Editors

• Domorium for VS Code - GEDCOM autocomplete, validation as you type, go to definition and safe XREF rename
• Domorium for JetBrains IDEs - the same, for IntelliJ IDEA and the rest of the JetBrains platform
• Domorium for Obsidian - edit .ged files inside an Obsidian vault, on desktop and mobile
• Domorium Web - validate and edit a GEDCOM file in the browser with nothing to install; the file is read locally and never uploaded

Tools

• AncestryLLM - Local-first CLI and interactive tools for researching family history with GEDCOM and RootsMagic data; optional AI assistance is explicit opt-in.

Parsers

Dart

• gedcom-dart - Dart library to parse GEDCOM data

.NET

• GEDCOM - A .NET library that imports data from a .ged (GEDCOM) file

Clojure

• gedcom - Clojure GEDCOM library

Go

• gedcom (@elliotchance) - library & CLI tools for encoding, decoding, traversing, merging, comparing, querying and publishing GEDCOM files
• gedcom (@iand) - Go package to parse GEDCOM files

Java

• Gedcom - Gedcom parsers
• gedcom4j - gedcom4j is a Java library for parsing and writing GEDCOM 5.5 and 5.5.1 files
• GedcomStore - To parse lineage-linked GEDCOM grammar files and build the GEDCOM-structure according to the parsed definitions

JavaScript/Node.js

• family-tree-nodejs - Application for loading GEDCOM files and serving them on the web as navigable family trees
• gedcom.js - Gedcom parser for JavaScript
• gedcom-parser - A tiny GEDCOM parser
• gedcom-stream - A node.js processor for GEDCOM files
• parse-gedcom - A simple GEDCOM parser that focuses on translating GEDCOM structure into JSON
• read-gedcom - A modern GEDCOM parser with type declarations

Objective-C

• Gedcom-Framework - Cocoa framework for parsing Gedcom data

PHP

• gedcom-search - PHP search engine for searching GEDCOM files with customizable results weighting
• php-gedcom - A library for reading and writing GEDCOM files in PHP
• PHP-GEDCOM-Tools - PHP scripts for interacting with GEDCOM files

Python

• gedcompy - Python library to parse and work with GEDCOM (geneology/family tree) files
• python-gedcom - Python module for parsing, analyzing, and manipulating GEDCOM files
• python-gedcom-parser - Python parser for GEDCOM 5.5 format
• simplepyged - A simple Python GEDCOM parser

R

• gedcomS7 - An R package for handling GEDCOM files

Ruby

• gedcom - Ruby Gedcom parser
• gedcom-ruby - A Ruby library for easily doing custom, callback-based GEDCOM parsing
• ruby-gedcom-parser - A simple gedcom parser for ruby

Rust

• rust-gedcom - Rust library for GEDCOM parsing, with optional serialization to JSON.
• gedcomx-rs - Rust library for GEDCOM X parsing, with serialization to / from XML and JSON.

Scala

• gedcom - Scala library to parse GEDCOM files (common genealogy format)

Visualization

TypeScript

• topola - library for embedding genealogy tree visualizations on web pages
• topola-viewer - interactive genealogy visualization

License

To the extent possible under law, Tod Robbins has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.