For families
Everything your family knows, in one place that outlives the people who know it.
Most families keep their history in three or four heads and a box of papers. Ancestral Lineage is somewhere to put it down properly, together, before it is lost.
How it goes
You do not need to know everything to begin
Start with the handful of people you are certain of. The tree grows as relatives correct you, which they will.
Start with yourself
Add the people you are sure of first — parents, grandparents, the aunt everyone asks about. You can begin before you make an account, and keep what you built when you do.
Bring relatives in
Invite the people who remember what you do not. You decide who can edit and who can only read, per person.
Record the proof
Certificates, funeral programmes, land papers and photographs, each tied to the people and events they concern, with a note on where the original is kept.
Gather the stories
The things only the family knows — why a name repeats, who moved and when, what happened in 1961 — written down while someone still remembers.
What you can count on
Three things that will not change on you
Private unless you say otherwise
A tree is closed by default. Nothing you add is on the open web until you deliberately publish it, and publishing a page never publishes the people behind it.
Yours to take with you
Export the whole tree as a GEDCOM file at any time — the format most genealogy software reads. Approximate dates are kept as written, not turned into guesses.
Free to start
Building a tree, recording what you know and inviting relatives costs nothing. There is no card, and no trial that expires.
Begin with one name
The builder opens straight away — no account, nothing to install. Add whoever comes to mind first and see how far you get.