Family Tree
Relationshipsweight 1tracker · keeps what you put in
Somebody in every family is the one who remembers — which great-aunt married which farmer, who emigrated and why. The Family Tree makes you that somebody, gently: each person gets a name, their relation to you, when they were born, and a space for the stories and notes that are the actual treasure. Names survive in records; stories only survive if someone writes them down.
This is not a screenshot. It's the real tool, running right here — go on, put something in it.
Open the demo full-screen: /demos/family-tree.html
What it keeps
- Nameshort text
- Relationshort text
- Borndate
- Stories & notesnotes
Questions people ask
How do I start recording my family history?
Start with the people you can ask. Add a row per relative — name, relation, birth date — and then get them talking while you fill the stories field. The dates are the skeleton; the anecdotes are the person.
Is this a full genealogy program with charts and GEDCOM files?
No, and that is rather the point. It is a plain list of people and their stories — the humble notebook stage that every grander family archive begins with.
Will my family's information end up on a genealogy website?
Not through this tool — it runs offline in your browser, with no account and nothing uploaded anywhere. The whole tree lives in one HTML file you own, and you can pass that file down like anything else in the family.
Fits your knife at weight 1. Nothing here is final — Knife follows Life. Reforging within your tier is free, forever. Add it, drop it, reforge later; the file stays yours either way.