Create a family tree
Name a tree and it is yours, private, and ready for the first person.
Nothing to read if you would rather watch
Watch how it works
7 short clips, recorded on the working site rather than drawn. No sound — every step is captioned, so they can be watched with the volume off.
The family in them is made up, and the photograph is a public archive picture. Nobody real is on screen.
Starting a tree
A tree is private the moment it exists, and stays that way until you publish it.
The people in it
Adding relatives, taking one back out, and fixing somebody recorded under the wrong parents.
Add a person
First name, last name, city. Everything else can wait for the next visit.
Change where someone sits
Positions are not dragged — they are decided by who a person is connected to.
Add a profile picture
One face per person — the thing that tells two relatives of the same name apart.
Remove a person
Taking someone out of the list, and what it warns you about before it does.
Finding relatives
The map and its search cover every published tree — by name, by clan, by city.
Search the map
Find a relative in every published tree by name, by clan, or by city.
Filter a map search
Narrow a search by first name, last name, age and place — then press Apply.
Still stuck?
How it works walks through what recording a family actually involves, and what stays yours sets out exactly which details are never shown to anybody else.