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No. Open the editor and start; your tree is saved in this browser automatically. An account is optional and only needed to open trees on other devices, keep version history, or invite relatives.

Select a person, then choose Parent, Partner, Child or Sibling. Only a name is needed. When you add a child to someone with more than one partner, choose the other parent from the list.

Yes. “Try an example” opens a fictional family you can edit freely. It is a separate tree, so your own trees are not affected.

Drag a card where you want it; adding people later keeps your arrangement. Every move can be undone. On phones, use the buttons and the people list if dragging is awkward.

Add each partnership and mark an ended one as divorced, separated or widowed. Children stay linked to their own parents, so half siblings are shown correctly.

Each parent link has a kind: birth, adoptive, foster, guardian, step or unknown. Adoptive parents are full parents in the tree; step links are shown only if you add them.

Leave them out. A child can have one recorded parent, and nothing is invented.

Tools → Tree health lists likely duplicates. Comparing two records lets you merge them after confirming, and the merge can be undone.

Without an account: only in this browser on this device (IndexedDB). It is not uploaded. Private browsing windows usually delete it when closed.

Trees & backup → Download complete backup (with photos). The single .ftree file holds everything. To restore, choose “Restore a backup as a new tree”; restoring never overwrites an existing tree.

The same tree is open twice. The older tab cannot overwrite newer changes; you can reload, or keep your version as a separate copy.

Trees saved only on this device are deleted with it. Keep a recent backup file, or copy the tree to an account.

Select a person and add a photo. It is resized in your browser and stored with the tree. With an account, photos are uploaded to private storage that only people with access to the tree can open.

Tools → Export and print: PDF, PNG, JPEG or SVG in eight styles, a family chart, pedigree or fan chart, one page or tiled across pages, with privacy options for living people.

Tools → Export and print, then choose Video. A short animation reveals each generation in turn and ends on the whole family. Choose wide (16:9), square or vertical for phone stories. It downloads as MP4 (or WebM in browsers that cannot record MP4), with the same privacy options as images.

Tools → Import GEDCOM creates a new tree from a .ged file, with a preview first. Tools → Export GEDCOM writes version 5.5.1 or 7.0. Photos are not part of GEDCOM.

Type them as normal. They are shaped correctly on screen and in exports; the PDF uses a high-resolution image of the chart so that every script prints correctly.

Sign in, open the dashboard and choose which trees on this device to copy. You see a preview first; the originals stay on this device.

Open an account tree, then Trees & backup → Share and family access. Invite by email as “can view” or “can edit”. The invitation works once, expires after 7 days, and only for that email address once verified.

Create a link from the same dialog. You see exactly what will be shown first. Living people and people with unknown status are hidden by default, notes and sources are never included, and you can set an expiry or turn the link off at any time.

Every save to an account keeps a version (the newest 100). Restoring an old version adds it as a new version; nothing later is erased.

A deleted account tree can be restored for 30 days, then it and its photos are removed permanently. Deleting your account removes the trees you own.

Each account can hold up to 50 trees and 500 MB of photos, with photos up to 15 MB each.