Family tree examples
Real examples of what you can make with this free family tree maker: one fictional family drawn in all eight styles, as a descendant chart, a pedigree chart, a fan chart and an Urdu shajra. Every picture is an unedited download from the editor, so your own family will look exactly like this.
Meet the example family
The fictional Hale family was designed to show the situations real families have and simple charts get wrong. Arthur and Edith Hale have two children, Robert and Margaret. Robert married twice: Thomas and Clara are his children with Helen, and Sami his son with Nadia, whose son Adam is Robert’s step-son. Margaret and George Ward’s daughter Lucy married her cousin Thomas, so their son Oliver has the same great-grandparents on both sides. Clara and her wife Maya adopted Jun. Edith’s sister Iris is linked as a sibling only.
Each chart below is drawn from those same records. Nothing was arranged by hand.
The same family in eight styles
Choose a style when you print or download. Changing the style never changes the family data, so you can try them all.
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Signature
Looks like your tree on screen: round portraits in coloured rings, serif names and soft date pills.
Good for: Sharing on screen and in messages
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Modern Minimal
Clean white cards with a green accent and small portraits.
Good for: Presentations and clean prints
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Heritage
Serif lettering, double-ruled cream cards and oval portraits on warm paper.
Good for: Framing and family gifts
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Photo Cards
Tall cards led by large photos, with names centred underneath.
Good for: Families with plenty of photos
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Family Keepsake
A framed keepsake: large title, gold-ringed portraits, ivory, forest green and muted gold.
Good for: Anniversaries, weddings and wall art
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Kids / Classroom
Big friendly text, round photo spots and a colour for each generation.
Good for: School projects and young children
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Print Ink Saver
Outlines only: no fills, no photos, thin black lines. Uses the least ink.
Good for: Large trees on a home printer
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Classic Pedigree
A traditional left-to-right ancestor chart with ruled boxes and serif type.
Good for: Genealogy research and notes
Chart types and languages
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Descendant chart
Everyone descended from Arthur and Edith Hale: children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, with each child linked to the right parents.
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A family with two marriages
Robert Hale’s descendants from both marriages. Dashed lines mark the ended first marriage, a step-son and an adopted grandchild.
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Pedigree chart with photos
Four generations of Oliver Hale’s ancestors in the Heritage style. Arthur and Edith appear twice, because Oliver’s parents are cousins.
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Fan chart
The same ancestors in a half circle, father’s side on the left and mother’s side on the right.
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Shajra nasab in Urdu
The same relationships with fictional Urdu names, showing right-to-left script shaped correctly in a real export.
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Urdu pedigree chart
An ancestor chart with Urdu names in the Classic Pedigree style.
Famous family tree examples
Prefer a family you already know? See the Targaryen family tree, the British royal family tree, the Kennedy family tree and more famous family trees, all drawn with the same editor.
Printable template examples
Each printable family tree template also has a filled-in example: the blank family tree, the three-generation tree, the five-generation pedigree and the family tree for kids.
How to make a family tree like these
- Start a tree with yourself; only a name is needed.
- Add parents, partners, children and siblings around each person, with photos if you like.
- Open Tools → Export and print and choose a chart type and one of the eight styles.
- Pick the paper size and privacy options, then download a PDF, PNG, JPEG, SVG or video.
The full walkthrough is in how to make a family tree, and paper sizes are covered in how to print a family tree.
Questions about the examples
Are these real families?
No. Every example uses the same fictional family, invented for this website, and the portraits are AI-generated images of people who do not exist. Nothing here shows a real person or a user’s tree.
Can I edit the example family?
Yes. “Open the example family” creates your own editable copy in your browser. Change names, add relatives or try every style; your own trees are not affected.
Can I use one of these as a template for my family?
Yes. Start your own tree and choose the same style and chart type when you download it. You can also start from a printable template, which opens as a tree of empty boxes.
What sizes can these charts be printed at?
Any of them can be downloaded as a PDF on A4, US Letter, A3, tabloid, A2 or A1 paper, on one page or tiled across several sheets, or as a PNG, JPEG or SVG image.
Make your own family tree
Start with one person, add your relatives, then choose the style you like best. It is free and no sign-up is needed.