GEDitCOM II for Mac
Genealogy Software.
$64.99
In English
Version 3.2When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission
GEDitCOM II overview
GEDitCOM II is a new genealogy application for OS X that sets the standard for Mac ease-of-use editing of genealogy files, for customization of the user experience, and for power features allowing the greatest access to your genealogical data. GEDitCOM II is a complete rewrite of the former GEDitCOM application.
GEDitCOM II is a rewritten version of GEDitCOM using Apple's Cocoa environment. It will greatly exceed user-interface features of GEDitCOM. It will retain the philosophy of GEDitCOM to be a customizable genealogy application for editing and viewing GEDCOM genealogy files. Users of GEDitCOM, should find GEDitCOM II easy to use. The installation will replace any prior installed beta versions of GEDitCOM II (if you have it in your main "Applications" folder); it will not affect the original GEDitCOM application (if you have that on your computer).
GEDitCOM II, as a new application, will not be a free update of GEDitCOM. It will be significantly discounted for current GEDitCOM users (with a few free copies for those who have been providing input during development).
What’s new in version 3.2
- Build 6 mostly fixed problem with the "Create Generations Book" caused by MacOS Sequoia. See "What's New" help topic for a few other features added as well.
- Build 5 fixed family tree issue in MacOS Sequoia (and one minor extension error).
- Build 4 fixed a some crashes that might have been caused by test code in leak fixes of build 3. This build also added some internal scripting features and updated the Python module.
- Build 3 fixed some memory leaks and added to features requested by users.
- Build 2 fixed two minor internal scripting issues, fixed OpenLayers maps when POIs have apostrophes, and added an option to sort sources in the "Default Format."
- Working with GEDitMobile to provide an iPhone companion to GEDitCOM II
- .A "New Family" panel makes it easier to create new families with new spouses in a single step.
- A new menu command automates queries into the genealogy data base at FamilySearch.org.
- A new application settings option to use the new style of tool bars that became available in MacOS 13.
- Many improvements to the "Default Format" and many were inspired by the "Modifed Default Format." Examples including showing more multimedia objects and sources on those panes and methods to copy and paste sources.
- Many improvements to the internal scripting language that were used to rewrite prior extensions, add a new extension (to copy a report to a Notes record), and to rewrite scripts embedded in the "Default Format."
- The "Edit GEDCOM Source" command now selects the GEDCOM data you were editing and scrolls it into view the GEDCOM source editor.
- Entering a partial place name and using arrow keys to select a similar name now works correctly.
- Several more bug fixes. One bug was crash caused by an inadvertent drag after just editing a field (this may have been one reported some some users, but hard to reproduce).
- The GEDitCOM II web site is new "secured" to be https instead of http. This change caused the current "Download Extension" to fail (because it tried to download using http), but that is fixed in this version.
- GEDitCOM Editor was updated to support and document all new Internal Scripting.
GEDitCOM II for Mac
$64.99
In English
Version 3.2
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Aug 18 2014
Version: 2.0
Clarification due to GEDCOM II and version 2.0 upgrade conversion ---- that bit about paid upgrade does not apply for those of us that have GEDCOM II --- 698
Clarification
If you already have GEDCOM II -- then this v2.0 is a free update
Nov 14 2010
Version: 1.6
The best by a long way.
When I started working on our family tree I tried most of the genealogy programs available for the Mac but it didn’t take a lot of thought to settle on GEDitCOM. I checked back on the others from time to time and never saw anything to make me change. When GEDitCOM II came out my comment on another review site was “the best just got a whole lot better”. Since then each revision has added a further swathe of improvements.
You can use it “out of the box” and it will do pretty much anything you want; you can tweak it a little using the inbuilt customization options or by fairly simple editing of the formats to suit your particular needs or your preferences about how it looks; or if you’re more adventurous you can make major changes. But underneath it all is a rock-solid base built on the Gedcom standard. Other programs use Gedcom but often adapt it in ways that hinder the transfer of information to other users: GEDitCOM even provides ways to correct these idiosyncracies.
The developer, John Nairn, is very responsive to requests for help or to suggestions for future changes. (Contrast the adverse comments about the developers of one of the other major programs who, according to one reviewer, had “even gone to the length of contacting me regarding negative feedback on third party sites and telling me that the program simply MUST work. It has to be me that is causing the problems.”)
Apr 20 2010
Version: 1.4
This is the best gedcom editor I have seen. I have used it since its inception.
Apr 8 2009
Version: 1.0b7
Cool, uh... does it DO anything? You haven't described its function.
