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Build your tree free in the browser — add people, photos and dates, or import your GEDCOM in seconds. When it's ready, export a print-quality fan chart or pedigree poster worth framing.
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From names to a chart worth framing.
Add your family, or import it
Enter people, dates, places and photos in a clean modern editor — or drop in a GEDCOM from Ancestry, MyHeritage, Gramps or any other app and your whole tree appears instantly.
Choose a chart you love
Render your ancestry as a radial fan chart or a classic vertical pedigree. Pick a theme, set how many generations to show, and watch it lay out automatically.
Print, frame, or share
Export a print-quality PNG or PDF — including large-format poster sizes for the wall. Keep your data portable with GEDCOM export whenever you like.
Free templates and how-to guides.
The Ahnentafel: Numbering Your Ancestors
An Ahnentafel is a numbered list of your direct ancestors, built on a simple, elegant rule that has organized genealogy for over three centuries. Here's how the numbering works, where it came from, and how to generate one from your own tree.
Read →The Biblical Family Tree: From Adam to Jesus
The Bible traces a single family line across thousands of years, from Adam through Abraham, David and beyond. Here's an overview of that lineage, where the major genealogies appear, and how to build and print your own biblical family tree chart.
Read →A Canva Family Tree, Without the Manual Box-Dragging
Plenty of people try to make a family tree in Canva — and Canva's creative freedom is real. The catch is that every box, line and connection is yours to place by hand. Kindred is purpose-built: it lays the whole chart out from your data automatically.
Read →Family History Charts You Can Print Yourself
There are two ways to get a beautiful family history chart on your wall: design it yourself in minutes, or commission a professional studio like Family ChartMasters. Here's an honest comparison — and how Kindred renders a print-quality genealogy chart from your own tree, free to build.
Read →Family Echo: a Free Family Tree Maker, Reviewed
Family Echo is one of the easiest free ways to sketch a family tree in your browser — no account, instant start. Here's what it's great at, the one place it leaves you stuck (the printout), and how to turn that same tree into a poster-quality fan or pedigree chart.
Read →A Free Online Family Tree Creator
A family tree creator should do the hard part for you — take your relatives and lay out a clean, readable chart automatically. Kindred does exactly that in the browser: add your family or import a GEDCOM, and a fan or pedigree chart generates itself. Free to build, with a one-time fee only when you export.
Read →Family Tree Drawing, Made Easy
Drawing a family tree is mostly about one thing: keeping each generation on its own row so the lines don't tangle. Here are the simple rules for sketching one by hand, the layout styles to choose from, and the easy way — letting the chart draw itself from the names you type in.
Read →Family Tree Examples You Can Open and Remix
Looking for a family tree example to copy? Below are the layouts people make most often — from a simple three-generation chart to a photo tree and a six-generation fan. Open any one in the free editor, swap in your own relatives, and make it yours.
Read →Family Tree Now, and a More Private Alternative
Family Tree Now is a free site for searching public records and finding people. Here's exactly what it is, why many users want a more private option, and how Kindred lets you build and chart your own family tree with your data kept in your browser — not searched, sold, or surfaced to others.
Read →Free Family Tree Templates
Printable and fill-in-online family tree templates for 3, 4 and 5 generations. Pick a layout, type in your relatives, and watch a clean chart lay itself out — free to build, with a one-time fee only when you export a print-quality copy.
Read →The Fan Chart: A Circular Family Tree
A fan chart arranges your ancestors in a semicircle of colored generation bands — the most elegant way to fit five or six generations on a single readable page. Here's how it works, when to use it, and how to make your own free.
Read →Family Tree & Genealogy Software, Compared
Genealogy software comes in three flavors: desktop programs that store your research, online services that search records, and chart makers that turn a tree into something you'd frame. Here's how they differ, how GEDCOM lets them work together, and where each one earns its place.
Read →How to Make a Family Tree
A plain-English guide to making a family tree from scratch — what to gather, who to ask, how to lay it out, and how to turn it into a chart worth framing. You can follow along free in the browser; you only pay once, when you export.
Read →TreeSeek Fan Charts, and a Modern Alternative
TreeSeek is well known for free printable fan charts, often pulled from a FamilySearch connection. Here's what it does, where it stops short, and how Kindred offers a more modern take: build your tree from any source, theme it, switch between fan and pedigree layouts, and export a print-quality copy.
Read →What Is a Pedigree Chart?
A pedigree chart is genealogy's most familiar document — a left-to-right map of your direct ancestors, generation by generation. Here's what it shows, how to read it, how it differs from a fan chart, and how to make your own free.
Read →Your family history shouldn't be rented. Build it freely, own it forever, and pay only for the chart you put on the wall.
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