Of course, this is just a quick and dirty visualization approach. After that, export the imported dataset as Shape or GeoJson and feel free to style and process the datapoints – for example: create a heatmap. Paste the lat, long information into your CSV and use the “Add data by text” button in QGIS to get the data into the QGIS layer tree. Just copy your places into an online geocoder like this one. To get this data view, go to “People” and add the row “birthplace” or some other place category. Via “Data” > “Export current view “you’re able to export a list of peoples including their birthplace.
Of course Gramps has a map-module where you can plot all places on a map or ask questions like: “Were some relatives able to meet up with other people from the database, based on their birthplace or current location” and yes, there are a lot of plugins available for Gramps to do some map reports automatically, but nevertheless I chose the export as CSV and imported data into QGIS. Further on you can easily create family-trees and several reports out of this database. After that you’re ready to visualize your own genealogy data. So just install it, create a database and fill up the people and family register with all present information. If you’re also interested in digitize your family tree and further information, I can recommended the usage of Gramps. Setting up an EXCEL-sheet wasn’t an option because meta information about relatives could be very extensive and flat-file maintenance based on several data providers is really hard and ugly. First one could ask, why should I use a “professional” genealogy software like Gramps? For me it was the only way how thinks could work.
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