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TIMELINE

Your family history,
in order

Birth, death, marriage, migration, and historical events — automatically pulled from your tree data and enriched with custom events you add — laid out chronologically so you can see the whole story at once.

Kowalski Family — Timeline
1848
Born in Prussia
Konigsberg, East Prussia
Georg K.
1872
Emigrated to Ohio
Arrived via Hamburg → New York
Georg K.
1875
Married
Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Georg + Marta
1901
First grandchild born
Cleveland, Ohio
Heinrich K.
1923
Passed away
Cleveland, Ohio — age 75
Georg K.

See multiple lives on one timeline

See multiple family members' events on the same timeline. Watch how your grandparents' lives overlapped, how migrations clustered in certain decades, and how one generation's events shaped the next.

Walter K. — Born 1921
Elsa R. — Born 1924
Walter + Elsa — Married 1947

Color-coded by event type

Birth, death, marriage, migration/move, life event, and historical context events — each with its own color and dot style. Migration is its own distinct category for tracking family movement across places. Historical events let you add context like "Great Migration wave 1915–1920" right alongside your ancestors' entries. Scan the timeline and instantly see when families moved, married, and ended.

Birth (gold filled)
Death (navy)
Marriage (yellow)
Migration / Move
Life Event (outline)
Historical Context

Add historical context directly to your timeline

Historical is a first-class event type you can add yourself. Drop in a note like "Great Migration wave 1915–1920" or "1882 Immigration Act signed" and it sits right on the timeline next to your ancestor's events. See the world they were living through, not as a separate reference — but woven into the same chronological view.

Historical Context
1882 — Immigration Act of 1882 signed
Family Event
1883 — Georg K. emigrated to Ohio

Your timeline builds from your tree — and from what you add

Birth, marriage, and death dates from every person profile feed the timeline automatically. Then you layer in the rest.

1

Tree dates appear on the timeline automatically

Every birth date, marriage date, and death date you've entered on a person's profile shows up on the timeline without any extra work. The baseline timeline is always up to date with your tree.

2

Add custom events through the Add Event modal

Tap the add button to open the event form. Choose a person (optional), enter a title, date or year, event type (Birth, Death, Marriage, Life Event, Migration/Move, or Historical), description, and location. Events appear on the timeline instantly.

3

Filter by person to focus your view

Use the person dropdown to narrow the timeline to a single family member. See just their events in order — or zoom back out to the full combined view. Edit any event by tapping its card to reopen the form with pre-filled data.

The whole story, at a glance

See your family's history as it actually unfolded.

Multi-person view

See every person's events on one shared timeline. Overlaps, patterns, and connections become visible immediately.

Color-coded event types

Birth (gold), death (navy), marriage (yellow), migration/move, life event, and historical — each has its own distinct color and dot style for instant visual scanning.

Historical context events

Add historical events directly to your timeline — a named event type alongside birth, death, and migration. Place world events in the same chronological view as your family's story.

Filter by person

Use the person dropdown to narrow the timeline to a single family member. See their events in isolation, then switch back to the combined tree view at any time.

Auto-populated from tree data

Every birth, marriage, and death date you enter on a person's profile feeds the timeline automatically. Add custom events on top with the built-in event form.

Common questions

Two ways: automatically from dates you enter on person profiles (birth, marriage, death), and manually through the Add Event form in the Timeline view. The form lets you choose a person, event type (Birth, Death, Marriage, Life Event, Migration/Move, or Historical), title, date or year, description, and location.
Yes. A person dropdown lets you filter the timeline to a single family member to see only their events. The combined view shows all people's events together in chronological order.
Yes. Open the Add Event form, choose an event type (Birth, Death, Marriage, Life Event, Migration/Move, or Historical), fill in the title, date or year, description, and location. The event appears on the timeline immediately. You can also link it to a specific person in your tree, or leave the person field blank for historical context events.
PDF export is on the roadmap. Currently you can take a screenshot or print using the browser's print function. Native PDF export with full formatting is planned for a future release.

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