Introducing TreeScope
A Free Genealogy Tool for Better Analyzing DNA Match Trees
I’ve been working on something I’m pretty excited about and wanted to share it here.
Over the past few months I’ve been building a free genealogy tool called TreeScope, and it’s grown into something a lot more powerful than I originally planned. It started as a way to import match trees and convert them into GEDCOMs, but it’s evolved into a pretty solid tool for analyzing DNA match trees and working through connections more efficiently.
It’s not a tree builder, but the GEDCOM export makes it especially useful when working in platforms like CanopyLink and FIGGTreePro, and it works really well for genetic genealogy and unknown parentage research too.
Here’s a quick rundown of what it can do:
Import and compare match trees from multiple sources
Run one-to-one or all-to-all comparisons to identify shared ancestors
Search surnames and locations across all loaded trees
Export individual or combined GEDCOMs for use in other tools
And soooo much more…
If you’d like to see a demo before trying it out for yourself, check out the TreeScope Overview on YouTube:
One thing worth noting: GEDmatch has a site redesign coming this summer, which means I may need to make some updates to how TreeScope handles those GEDCOM and DNA match imports once that rolls out.
I’ll be making some updates to the tool in July, but the current version (v4.0.4) is up and ready to use. If you run into any bugs or have ideas, there’s a feedback form on the site and I’d love to hear what you think!
Happy researching,
Tracie