Genealogy Tools
Curiosity about one’s own lineage is perfectly natural. Therefore, it’s perfectly natural that web services such as Ancestry are as common as they are. These services help you discover the timeline and tree of your ancestors, helping enlighten you as to where you come from and the trials and tribulations that your bloodline had to face in order for you to be living today.
Gramps is a Free Software Project for Genealogy, offering a professional cross-platform genealogy program, and a wiki open to all.
- Genealogy Tool
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
+19Access a treasure trove of historical newspapers. Search millions of pages from thousands of historical newspaper titles.
- Web Archiving Service
- Paid • Proprietary
- Online
+5The WikiTree community is growing a free worldwide family tree. The site is 100% free. There are no premium memberships. All content is contributed by the users and you can keep copyrights. You can also keep modern profiles private or even hidden altogether.
- Genealogy Tool
- Free • Proprietary
- Online
FamilySearch is a genealogy organization operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. FamilySearch maintains a collection of records, resources, and services designed to help people learn more about their family history.
- Genealogy Tool
- Free Personal • Proprietary
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Apple Watch
- Kindle Fire
+6MyHeritage is a genealogy website and social network service focused on family. It enables members to establish their own family websites, share photos and videos, plan family events, create family trees, and search for ancestors.
- Genealogy Tool
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
+7Discover your family history and start your family tree. Try free and access over 7 billion genealogy records including Census, SSDI & Military records.
- Genealogy Tool
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
+4WeRelate.org is a free public-service wiki for genealogy sponsored by the Foundation for On-Line Genealogy, Inc. formerly in partnership with the Allen County Public Library. The Foundation for On-Line Genealogy is a 501c3 charitable organization supported by tax-deductible...
- Genealogy Tool
- Free • Open Source
- Online
You are made of cells. And the cells in your body have 23 pairs of chromosomes. Your chromosomes are made of DNA, which can tell you a lot about you.
- Genealogy Tool
- Paid • Proprietary
- Online
- iPhone
Newspapers is the largest online newspaper archive from the 1600s to present day from around the United States and beyond.
- Web Archiving Service
- Paid • Proprietary
- Online
Explore your personal family history and discover your origins, your ancestors and how your family has evolved over the course of time. MacFamilyTree offers numerous options for you to capture and visualize your family history.
- Genealogy Tool
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
+6Webtrees is a free, open source, website based, collaborative genealogy application. It works with standard GEDCOM files and is installed on a web server using PHP and MySQL (or Postgres, SQL Server, or SQLite).
- Genealogy Tool
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- MySQL Community Edition
- Self-Hosted
- Microsoft SQL Server
- PHP
- SQLite
- PostgreSQL
+1MORI is a revolutionary genealogy software built to address the lack of collaboration in the genealogy space. With real-time collaboration, an infinite multiplayer canvas, and AI-powered tools, MORI empowers users to create, edit, and share their family trees effortlessly.
- Genealogy Tool
- Free • Proprietary
- Online
My Family Tree is a genealogy application for Windows. It has been carefully designed to help you quickly create your family tree using a simple and intuitive interface. For those just starting out investigating their family history, it provides an easy way to visualise and...
- Genealogy Tool
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
+8HuMo-genealogy is a free, open-source and multilingual server-side program that makes it very easy to publish your genealogical data on the internet as a dynamic and searchable family tree website.
- Genealogy Tool
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
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