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ged2dot, a GEDCOM to Graphviz converter

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It’s All Souls' Day, so let’s celebrate it by writing Free Software that helps us to remember our ancestors. I already enjoyed ancestry.com as a GEDCOM editor, but it always just shows a small part of the family tree. So here comes ged2dot, that will convert your GEDCOM file to a DAG, resulting in a layout similar to this:

Of course you can also feed more sensitive info into it, like disabling anonymous mode: then it’ll show the name and birth/death date on the nodes; it’ll also show something more useful than placeholder images. ;-)

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