You did the research.
Now it becomes a book.
Export your tree as a GEDCOM file from the site where it lives, bring it here, and read the whole first draft free — chapters by generation, sources in the footnotes, your photographs in the text.
From the tree you built to the book they'll read.
- · 01 · Export
Save your tree as a GEDCOM file.
Most family tree sites and genealogy programs can save your tree as a GEDCOM file on a computer. Our export guides show where, service by service.
- · 02 · Import
Bring it to 7gens.
Upload the file. Before anything is saved, you see who is in it — and we tell you if the photos stayed behind.
- · 03 · Read
Read the whole first draft free.
Chapters by generation, the history around the family's events, sources in the footnotes. Facts the editor is unsure of are marked for you to decide.
- · 04 · Keep
Edit, approve, order.
Change any line and add photographs, then approve the book and order the linen hardcover — or a set of two or three to one address.
Your tree comes across. Some photos may not.
Comes across
- Every person, with names, dates and places
- Marriages, children and the relationships between them
- Your sources and citations, where your service includes them
May stay behind
- Photos, from some services: Ancestry® exports carry no photos. Save them from the site, then add them here.
- Pictures saved on your computer: desktop programs record where each picture is, not the picture itself.
Either way, we tell you before anything is saved, and you can add your photos to the album in one go — they are placed in the text beside the people they show.
Where the export button is, service by service.
Works with GEDCOM files exported from Ancestry®, MyHeritage®, Geni, Family Tree Maker, RootsMagic, Gramps, WikiTree and most other genealogy software. FamilySearch® has no direct GEDCOM download of its shared tree; our guide explains the alternatives.
The family historian whose tree lives online.
You have spent years on the tree: hundreds of names, the records behind them, the photographs you found. Most of the family has never logged in to see it.
The book is how they read it — chapter by chapter, generation by generation, with every fact traceable to its source.
Written from your tree, sourced in the footnotes.
Every fact comes from your tree or a source you can see. Where the editor is unsure, the fact is marked and you decide.
We don't generate imaginary "historical" pictures: the book uses your photographs and archival images, each with its source.
7gens is not affiliated with or endorsed by any family-tree service. Ancestry®, MyHeritage®, FamilySearch® and the other product names on this page are trademarks of their owners and are used only to describe which files work.
Your research,
read by the whole family.
Start with your GEDCOM file. The first full draft is free.