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Everything you need to research, document, and share your family history

AncestorOS combines a powerful family tree builder with professional tools for genealogy researchers — all in one app.

Build your family's story

Family Tree

Build an interactive family tree on an SVG canvas with unlimited members. Zoom and pan across your tree — each person node shows an avatar, name, and dates. Click any node to open a right-side drawer with full details and sibling navigation. Search within the tree instantly.

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Memories & Stories

Preserve the moments that matter. Record audio stories, attach videos, photos, and written memories to anyone in your tree.

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Photo Management

Organize and preserve family photos. Tag people, add captions, store originals at full resolution.

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Timeline

See your family's story in chronological order. Multi-person timelines, life events, and historical context.

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Smart Discoveries

AncestorOS surfaces hints, record matches, anniversary reminders, and missing-info alerts from your data. Each discovery includes a confidence level and can be accepted or dismissed with one tap.

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GEDCOM Import/Export

Bring your existing tree from Ancestry, MyHeritage, or FamilySearch. Export any time. Your data is always portable.

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DNA Tracking

Track DNA test kits from AncestryDNA, 23andMe, MyHeritage, and FamilyTreeDNA. Enter matches with cM values, link them to people in your tree, and use the built-in cM reference table to understand predicted relationships.

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Ancestor Map

See your family's history on an interactive map. Birth places, death places, marriages, and migration lines — geocoded automatically from the place names in your tree. Five map layers let you explore each event type separately.

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Fan Chart

Visualize your tree as a radial fan chart. Select any person as the root, toggle between ancestors and descendants, and export the result.

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Run your genealogy practice

Pro plan includes everything in Hobbyist, plus a complete business toolkit.

Client Management

A CRM built for genealogists. Track clients, manage research scopes, and maintain a professional communication history.

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Professional Invoicing

Create branded invoices, send payment links, and accept credit cards through Stripe. All from AncestorOS.

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Time Tracking

Start a timer, log manual entries, and generate billing summaries per client. Finally, billing time made simple.

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Research Tools

Research logs with positive/partial/negative/pending result tracking, 10-category Evidence Explained citations, database search log for research exhaustion tracking, and a document vault for PDFs, images, and Word files.

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Built for how you actually work

Your data is portable

Export your tree as GEDCOM anytime. Your data is never locked in.

Private by default

Your tree is visible only to you unless you choose to share. No social feed. No ads.

Mobile-first

Designed for phone and tablet, polished on desktop. One app, all devices.

AncestorOS vs the alternatives

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Ancestry

AncestorOS gives you professional business tools and keeps your data portable — features Ancestry doesn't offer.

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MyHeritage

AncestorOS is purpose-built for working genealogists, with invoicing, client management, and research tools MyHeritage doesn't have.

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FamilySearch

FamilySearch is a public database. AncestorOS is a private, professional platform — your tree is yours, not shared by default.

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