Every family is a tree. Ours finally looks like one.

One archive, read ten ways

• Charts

  Chart, Generations, Living tree

  The classic descendant chart with elbowed connectors; the same tree banded by generation with birth-year ranges; and a Living tree that grows from a trunk — tapered bark branches, knots at every fork, leaves in tufts and the ancestry of the selected person lit as an amber vein.

  • Chart
  • Generations
  • Living tree
• Person-centred

  Hourglass, Fan chart, Pedigree, Family card

  Put anyone in the middle. Ancestors rise, descendants fall; a five-ring fan sorts the father's and mother's sides; a pedigree runs four generations left to right; the Family card lays out parents, partner, children and siblings — with a dashed slot wherever a relative is still missing.

  • Hourglass
  • Fan chart
  • Pedigree
  • Family card
• Lists

  Outline and search

  A collapsible outline with lifespan, place, generation and lens — for when a tree is the wrong shape. Scope and lens apply here too, so the list and the canvas always agree.

  • Outline
  • Scope
  • Lens

The descendant chart with elbowed connectors and lineage highlight. The same tree banded by generation, with birth-year ranges. Founders on the trunk, every generation a wider ring of branches and leaves. Ancestors rise, descendants fall from the person in the middle. Five rings of ancestors, father's side and mother's side. Parents, partner, children and siblings of one person.

• 3D tree

  a trunk, bark, a crown of leaves and blossom, cards that fade on the far side

• Constellation

  every person a star in a slowly turning galaxy; lines of descent in light

• Globe

  places of birth as pins on the Earth, migrations drawn as arcs

• Helix of lifespans

  every life a thread wound round the years, twenty years a coil

• Photo wall

  the archive's portraits as a carousel in depth

Made for reading, not just drawing

• Scope

  Whole tree, ancestors, descendants or ±2 generations around a person — the canvas re-fits itself to whatever is left.

• Colour lens

  Tint cards by completeness of data, surname, birthplace, sources or whether the person is living. The same lens colours the Lifespans screen.

• Lifespans

  Every life as a bar on one time axis, with a year slider that shows who was alive — and how old — in any given year.

• Places

  Birthplaces on a world map, migrations between generations drawn as arcs; there is a 3D globe too.

• Editing

  Add a father, mother, partner or child right on the canvas; edit and delete — any edit can be rolled back from the history. Viewers see the same tree without the controls.

• GEDCOM

  Export the tree to GEDCOM — a standard file that other genealogy programs open. Import from GEDCOM is there too.