Guides

Everything you need, in plain language — from your first import to sharing your tree with the family.

• Getting started

  Your first archive: name it, bring in an old tree, and learn your way around.

• Sources, citations and the research log

  Attach proof to every fact, get ready-made citations, and keep track of the walls you're chasing.

• Share your tree as a website

  Make a private little website your whole family can browse — no accounts, no apps.

• The map: places, journeys and old borders

  Put your villages on the map, watch lives travel across it, and slide the borders back to 1790.

• Backups and safety

  How to protect your archive, how to get it back, and how to move it to another computer.

• The Registry: searching your archive

  Your whole archive in one table — ready-made queries, custom filters, pick-your-own columns, CSV export.

• Reports & the family book

  Seven print-ready PDF artifacts, from a family sheet to a compiled book.

• Dates in old records

  Feast days in Latin, double years, 'about 1850' — write what the scribe wrote, the app does the math.

• Coming from another program

  Family Tree Maker, RootsMagic, Legacy, Gramps, Ancestry, MyHeritage — via GEDCOM.

• FAQ

  Common questions: owning your data, where the files live, backups, working offline, SmartScreen, platforms, pricing.