Family tree editor – My Lineage Tree

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These tools change people and relationships in your family tree.

Select a person first, then choose the relationship you want to add. Presentation settings are under Appearance.

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Family history

Family timeline

A visual story of births, passings and the moments in between.

Add people with birth or death dates, or add a family event, to start the timeline.

Overview

Opening your tree…

Your family tree starts here

Start with yourself

Add one person first. Select them to add parents, a spouse, children or siblings, and the tree will arrange itself as you grow.

1Add a person 2Select their card 3Build relationships

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Add person

First name * Last name *

Middle name Preferred name / nickname

Gender Occupation

Date of birth Place of birth

Date of death Place of death

A full date, or just a year or year and month, is fine.

Deceased (no date needed) Other parent

Their story

How they lived, memories worth keeping, how they met someone, anything at all.

Story Photos & memories

Audio memory

One voice recording or audio memory (MP3, M4A, OGG or WAV; 12 MB max).

Video memory

One video memory (MP4, WebM or OGV; 35 MB max).

Up to 6 photos: snapshots, scanned documents, anything worth keeping with their story.

Share this tree

Anyone with the link can view the tree, but not edit it.

Read-only link is on

Hide information for living people
Living people show by name only. Dates, places, photos, biography, audio and video stay private.

Add a family event

Preserve a family moment with a date, story and optional photograph.

Year (or date) What happened More detail (optional)

Related people (optional)

Choose family members connected to this moment. Their portraits can represent the event when no event photo is added.

Event photograph

This image belongs to the event itself, appears in the timeline, and does not use one of the person's profile photo slots.