Your History at a Glance

Explore your family and discover their history. Old values may seem outdated to some, but there is a reason why they are still valid today. Discover how people lived in the past and how similar their way of life is to that of today.

Early life videos

See how people used to live in videos that are realistically recreated and entertaining.

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Create your own family tree

Search for existing family trees of your ancestors and build your own family tree branch. Search billions of sources like digitized documents from churches and registry offices.

Sites with completely private family trees are not recommended, by using collaborative software you will also benefit from the work of others and vice versa.

Learn more about creating family trees

Local Genograms and Resources

We host some of our own genograms for some families, including their sources, documents and photos. To protect the people on these genograms, most of these genograms are not publicly available. If you're interested and think you might be on one of these trees, we'd love to hear from you.

Check if you're on the trees

Find Persons, Families and Events

Select below what you're looking for and enter its eight-digit long ID. You can find the IDs on the page of the specific object. If you don't know the ID, you can also use the person list or the family list for searching.

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Family Tree Access

On this site, there are a few genograms for certain families available. Ask for access to view your ancestor's information and to edit the trees. You may only gain access if you are on one of these family trees.

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Genograms and resources

Get tools, free apps, already created trees and documentation.

Create Family Tree

Create your own genogram and dicover your family

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