Your family tree, in a format every genealogy platform accepts. One tap. Yours to keep forever.
GEDCOM — the Genealogical Data Communication standard — has been the universal language of family trees since 1984. FamilySearch uses it. Ancestry uses it. MyHeritage, MacFamilyTree, Gramps, Legacy Family Tree — every serious genealogy platform reads and writes it. It is the format that outlasts every individual platform.
ECO lets you export your entire network — every member, every birth date and location, every relationship, every passing — as a standard GEDCOM 5.5.1 file with one tap. The file is yours. You can open it in any genealogy software, import it to another platform, give it to a cousin doing their own research, or simply keep it as a backup that doesn't depend on ECO's continued existence.
This is not a courtesy feature. It is a statement about data ownership. Your family's genealogical record belongs to your family, not to the platform that helped you build it. The export ensures that.
Not a lock-in. A file you own, readable everywhere, forever.
From your data export page, tap Export GEDCOM. The system builds the file — every member, every relationship, every birth city and passing date you've recorded — and downloads it immediately to your device. No wait, no email, no queue.
GEDCOM 5.5.1 is the standard. Ancestry, FamilySearch, MyHeritage, MacFamilyTree, Gramps, RootsMagic, Legacy Family Tree, Heredis — all of them import it directly. You can take your ECO family tree anywhere.
Every member in your network: full name, birth year and location, passing year if recorded, and gender. Every relationship: parent-child, spouse pairs, and sibships. The file is named with the network ID and the date of export, so you always know which snapshot you're looking at.
If ECO ever went away — if the company folded, if the domain lapsed, if any of the things that happen to software happened — a GEDCOM export made today would still be readable in 2050. The format predates the internet as most people use it. It is as close to a permanent backup as digital data gets.
If a cousin has been building their own tree in Ancestry, you can export your ECO data and import it alongside theirs. If a genealogy researcher is helping your family, you can hand them the file. The data doesn't stay trapped inside one tool's walls.
ECO makes no claim on the genealogical record you build inside it. The GEDCOM export is the mechanism that makes that true in practice, not just in policy. A platform that holds your data hostage is a platform with leverage over you. A platform that hands you a universally-readable copy of everything, any time, has none.