Shajra Nasab Maker: Your Urdu Family Tree Online
A shajra nasab (شجرہ نسب) is your family’s lineage: who descends from whom, generation after generation. Make yours online for free with names typed in Urdu script, and print it as a PDF or image in which every letter stays correctly joined.
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اپنا شجرہ نسب آن لائن بنائیں، بالکل مفت
اپنے نام سے شروع کریں، پھر والد، والدہ، دادا، دادی، نانا، نانی اور پردادا کو شامل کریں۔ نام اردو میں لکھیں؛ اسکرین پر بھی اور پی ڈی ایف میں بھی ہر حرف درست جڑا ہوا نظر آئے گا۔ اکاؤنٹ بنانے کی ضرورت نہیں، اور آپ کا شجرہ آپ کے اپنے براؤزر میں محفوظ رہتا ہے۔
- دوسری شادی، سوتیلے بہن بھائی اور گود لیے بچے درست طریقے سے درج ہوتے ہیں۔
- پی ڈی ایف، تصویر (PNG) یا ویڈیو کی شکل میں ڈاؤن لوڈ کریں اور واٹس ایپ پر بھیجیں۔
- زندہ افراد کی تفصیلات شیئر کرنے سے پہلے چھپائی جا سکتی ہیں۔
How to make a shajra nasab online
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Step 1
Start with yourself or the eldest ancestor
Begin with your own name and work back, or begin with the earliest ancestor the family remembers (the jadd-e-amjad) and add descendants down to today.
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Step 2
Add each generation
Select a person and add a parent, partner, child or sibling. Fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers form the main line; add mothers, wives and daughters too.
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Step 3
Type names in Urdu
Use the Urdu keyboard on your phone or computer. Add the English spelling as an “also known as” name if relatives abroad will read it.
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Step 4
Add dates and places
Write dates as you know them: “1950”, “Mar 1950” or “abt 1923”. Places such as لاہور or ملتان can be typed in Urdu too.
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Step 5
Choose the chart
Print the whole family, the descendants of one ancestor (a classic shajra), or one person’s ancestors as a pedigree chart.
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Step 6
Download and share
Save a PDF for printing and framing, a PNG for WhatsApp, or a short video for phone screens. Keep a backup file of the whole tree.
What a shajra nasab records
Shajra means tree and nasab means lineage or descent. Traditionally a shajra traces the male line from a founding ancestor, name by name, so a family can see how every branch connects and remember the elders who came before them. Many families also note their qaum or biradari, the village or city they came from, and dates of birth and death.
Handwritten shajras are often kept by one elder and are easily lost or damaged. Typing yours into a digital family tree keeps a copy that every branch of the family can print, check and add to.
The male line and the whole family
The editor records everyone: fathers and mothers, wives, sons and daughters, second marriages, adoption and half siblings. When you print, choose Selected person’s descendants to show one ancestor’s lineage, Everyone in the tree for the whole family, or a pedigree chart of one person’s ancestors on both sides.
Urdu text in downloads
Urdu letters change shape depending on their neighbours. Some tools print them as separate, unjoined letters; here they are shaped by the browser exactly as on screen. In PDFs, names in Urdu and other complex scripts are placed as 600 dpi images, so they print sharply but cannot be selected. SVG downloads keep them as text.
A pedigree chart in Urdu
The same fictional family as an ancestor chart for the youngest generation, in the Classic Pedigree style. Ancestors who appear twice, because cousins married, are marked instead of hidden.
Hindi and other scripts too
The same shaping works for Hindi (Devanagari), Arabic, Persian and other alphabets, so a vansh vriksh or a family tree in any language prints just as cleanly. You can mix scripts in one tree.
Before you share your shajra
A shajra often travels far through family groups. Before sending it, consider hiding living relatives or showing only their names: the export’s privacy options remove hidden details from the file itself. Read more in how to print a family tree and how to find your ancestors.
Shajra nasab questions
What is a shajra nasab?
Shajra nasab (شجرہ نسب) means “tree of lineage”: a record of who descends from whom, usually traced from a known ancestor down through the generations. Many families keep one to remember their elders and to know how branches of the family are related.
Can I type names in Urdu?
Yes. Type names, places and notes in Urdu script with any Urdu keyboard on your phone or computer. They are joined and shaped correctly on screen and in every download. The editor’s own buttons and menus are in English.
Will Urdu names print correctly in the PDF?
Yes. Names in Urdu, Arabic, Hindi and similar scripts are placed in the PDF as sharp 600 dpi images, so every letter is joined exactly as on screen. That text cannot be selected or copied from the PDF; export an SVG if you need editable text.
Can I keep both the Urdu and the English spelling of a name?
Yes. Write the name in Urdu and add the English spelling as an “also known as” name, or the other way round. Both are kept with the person and are searchable in the people list.
Can I include daughters, wives and the mother’s side?
Yes. A traditional shajra follows the male line, but the editor records everyone. You can print the whole family, only the descendants of one ancestor, or one person’s ancestors on both sides.
Can I write Hijri dates?
Dates are calculated in the Gregorian calendar. You can still type a Hijri date: it is kept exactly as written and shown on the chart, but it is not used for ages or sorting. Many families add the Hijri date in the person’s notes instead.
Can I share my shajra on WhatsApp?
Yes. Download it as a PNG image to send in a chat, or as a short vertical video that reveals one generation at a time, made for phone screens and status updates. You can hide living people before sharing.
Is the shajra nasab maker free?
Yes, completely. No sign-up is needed, and your tree is saved in your own browser. A free account is optional if you want to open it on another device or invite relatives to help.
Start your family’s shajra today
Write down the elders you know while they can still be asked, and keep a shajra every branch of the family can print and add to.