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Watch your family's migration on a map, year by year
We redesigned the map Timeline. Press play and see where your family lived each year, who moved, and when they crossed an ocean.
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A fix for family tree files that would not load
One invisible character in a note could stop a whole GEDCOM file from loading. That is fixed. If your file was turned away, please try it again.
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Historical place names now land where they should
A place written the way it was named at the time, like Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, now lands in the right spot on the map. Viewfore knows about 300 historical and regional names, and a vague place gets a clearly marked approximate pin.
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How to export a GEDCOM from Ancestry
Ancestry keeps your tree, but it will hand you a copy as a GEDCOM file in a few clicks. Here is where the button is, what the file holds, and what to do with it.
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Story mode plays your family history as a film over the map
Press play and the map tells one family's story, a marriage at a time, from the oldest wedding down to the person you started from. Every sentence comes from your file. It is in beta.
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Notes, sources, and record facts are now on the person card
Genealogists keep their work in notes and citations. Viewfore now reads them from the file and shows them behind a document button on the person card, grouped by the fact they support.
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A new example family, built for the map
The example tree is now a fictional family of 824 people written to show what Viewfore does well. Nobody in it is real.
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Viewfore is open
Upload a GEDCOM and see your family tree on a map, with pedigree, fan, lifespan, and insights views beside it. Viewing is free. Sharing a tree by link or embed is the only thing that costs money.