GED Tree Generator

You can use many popular online ancestry services to create a family tree. Most all of these services only let you view a very small portion of your tree at once--typically only four or five generations. I wanted to view my entire tree on one screen, but I couldn't find any application that would do that in the way that I wanted. Luckily, many of the existing applications also allow you to save a GEDCOM (.ged) file that contains your tree information in a universal format. So, I created a program to parse my own (or anyone else's) GED file and display the entire tree using SVG, along with some color coding, etc., so that it was easy to programmatically generate using HTML-like tags and scaled nicely at any resolution when zooming in and out. I hosted the application for a while on AWS EC2 in order to get some experience working with that cloud hosting service. Click on the image below to view the generated SVG for my tree.