The living and the departed together
A family is not only its ancestors. The living and the departed are marked differently and stay in one tree, and those already using the app glow gold. No second list, and no deciding who belongs.
Add your parents and grandparents — the generations lay themselves out. The living and the departed stay in one tree, and every person can hold photos and stories.
Open the builder — you appear in the middle, with empty places around you: father, mother, spouse, children.
Tap an empty place and type a name. Do not know the dates? Leave them blank and fill them in later.
You say who is related to whom; the software works out the generations and connections. Nothing ever has to be redrawn.
A chart of surnames and dates is only half the job. The value appears when there is a real person behind every circle.
A family is not only its ancestors. The living and the departed are marked differently and stay in one tree, and those already using the app glow gold. No second list, and no deciding who belongs.
For those who have passed you can save the GPS coordinates of the burial place and the route to it. Saved once, it spares everyone who comes after you.
Every person can hold photographs, memories and significant dates. Two generations from now your descendants will care less about dates than about what these people were like.
A paper tree has to be redrawn every time you remember one more relative. Here the layout rearranges itself — after the tenth person and after the hundredth.
The tree, relative profiles, photos and family connections cost nothing. No trial period and no card required to start.
Start on a computer, continue in the iOS or Android app. The tree stays with you and your family.
A family tree is a chart of kinship: every person is an element, and the lines between them mean a relationship — parent to child, spouse to spouse.
It is often confused with family history. Family history is the content: the gathered facts, documents, photographs and stories. The tree is the form: a way to see who is related to whom. Neither works alone — a chart without facts is empty boxes, and facts without a chart are a notebook only you can read, and not for long.
The real use of a tree is not that it looks good, but that it shows the gaps. While information sits in a list you cannot tell what is missing. On a chart it is obvious: your great-grandmother has no parents recorded, your grandfather has no birth year — that is where to look next.
No. The builder opens straight away and your tree is saved in your browser. An account matters later — so the tree survives a change of device and can be reached by relatives.
The tree, relative profiles, photos and family connections are free. There is no trial period and no card required to start.
Yourself, then your parents, then their parents. Work upwards one generation at a time so the connections stay clear. Siblings, aunts and uncles are easier to add once the main line is in place.
Add the person without a date. An empty field beats a guessed one: a wrong year will send you hunting for a record that was never there.
Yes, and you should. The living are as much a part of the family as the ancestors, and they remember what you do not. They are marked separately from the departed.
Burial places with directions, photos, significant dates and reminders — in the app for iOS and Android. Free.