Free tools
Family history tools that keep your family to yourself
Everything here is free. Your tree stays on your device; the research assistant and the opt-in relative finder send our server only what they need (see Privacy). Nothing signs in to FamilySearch or Ancestry, and nothing is scraped from them.
Trees & charts
Family treeBuild a private tree in your browserAdd people, parents, spouses and children. See a pedigree, a fan chart and descendants. Open or save GEDCOM files. Nothing is uploaded.Fan chart makerA printable 5–7 generation fan chartYour ancestors in a half circle: Dad's side in blue, Mom's side in green. Print it or save it as a PDF.Pedigree chartFour generations on one pageA classic ancestor chart from your tree, ready to print, with each person's dates and places.Printable blank chartsPedigree, family group sheet, research logBlank forms to print and fill in by hand: a 5-generation pedigree, a family group sheet and a research log.
Relationships
Relationship calculatorSecond cousin once removed? Find outPick the ancestor you share and see exactly what you call each other, with a full cousin chart.Relationships, explainedWhat's a 2nd cousin twice removed?Type any relationship and see it drawn as a family diagram, in plain words, with how to count it yourself and a quick quiz.Find relativesScan a code, look nearby, or search a nameSee how you're related to someone else using TempleKit: show a QR code, look for relatives in the same room, or search by name and send a request. Opt-in, and living people are never shared.Generation calculatorWhen were your ancestors born?How many ancestors you have in each generation, what they're called, and about when each generation was born.
Dates & names
Date calculatorBirth date from age, old calendars, weekdaysWork out a birth date from an age at death, the time between two dates, the day of the week, and Julian to Gregorian dates.Soundex codeThe code US census indexes useTurn a surname into its Soundex code (Lundquist = L532) to find spelling variations in census indexes.Old record word listsDutch, German, Latin and 7 moreMonth names (including the old ones), and the words for born, baptized, married, died, buried, father, mother and more.
Records
Research assistantFind records, read old handwritingSearch open archives for an ancestor, let Claude dig through the web for more, and have old records transcribed and translated. Save what you find to your tree.Search free record sitesOne search, many free archivesType a name once and open the search on FamilySearch, Open Archives, newspapers, cemetery sites and national archives.
Going to the temple with family names?
TempleKit's main tool turns the family name cards you print from FamilySearch into cards that say who each person is to you, with their story on the back.
Guides: Family name cards, explained · Print family name cards two-sided · Reservations, limits and expiry · Cousins, removed, half and step · Free record sources by country