About Family Tree Studio

Family Tree Studio is a free family tree maker that runs in your web browser. You can start without an account, record families as they really are (second marriages, half siblings, adoption, unknown parents), add photos, print charts people can actually read, and move your tree to other programs with GEDCOM.

Why it was built

Most family tree tools make you choose: a quick chart maker that cannot handle a second marriage, or a genealogy service that wants an account, a subscription and your family’s data on its servers. Family Tree Studio was built to be the tool in between: quick to start, honest about complicated families, private by default, and good at the part people care about most, a beautiful family tree on paper or on screen.

What makes it different

• Families as they are. A child is linked to exactly the parents you choose; a partner never becomes a parent automatically. Adoption, fostering, step-families, same-sex couples and single parents are ordinary entries.
• Nothing invented. Unknown parents stay blank, partial dates stay partial (“abt 1923”), and relationship names say when an answer is uncertain.
• Real exports. PDF, PNG, JPEG, SVG and video in eight styles, from A4 to A1 posters, with names in Urdu, Hindi and other scripts shaped correctly.
• Your data stays yours. Without an account nothing leaves your browser, and a single backup file holds your whole tree, photos included.

How it treats your data

Without an account, trees and photos stay in your browser on your device. Accounts are optional: they store the trees you choose to copy on this website’s server so you can use them on other devices and share them with relatives you invite. Shared links show a reduced copy of a tree that hides living people by default. The privacy policy describes this in detail.

How our guides and examples are made

Every guide on this website is written for beginners and checked against the editor it describes: screenshots are taken from the real editor, and every chart, template preview and example is an unedited download made by the same export code you use. When the editor changes, the guides are reviewed and their “Updated” date changes with them. Research advice is general; we name the kinds of records to look for rather than promise what any archive holds.

What it is not

It does not search historical records, offer DNA testing, or match your tree against other people’s trees. Relationship names describe the links you have recorded, not genetic or legal certainty. Example families shown on this website are fictional, and their portraits are AI-generated images of people who do not exist (from the Faker project’s public-domain CC0 portrait set).

Free, with no catch

The editor, templates, tools and downloads are free, with no paid plans and no advertising. Downloads carry a small “Made with Family Tree Studio” line, which you can switch off. Accounts have generous usage limits so the service can stay free; they are listed in Help.

Accessibility

The public pages work without JavaScript, every image has a text description, and pages and the editor are checked with automated accessibility tests (WCAG 2.2 AA rules) and keyboard-only use. If something is hard to use, please tell us.

Who runs it

This website is operated by Family Tree Studio. You can reach the operator at contact@familytreemakerstudio.com.