Gramps is a Free Software Project for Genealogy, offering a professional cross-platform genealogy program, and a wiki open to all.




Ancestry is not available for Windows but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Windows with similar functionality. The best Windows alternative is Gramps, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Ancestry and many of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to Ancestry are MyHeritage, webtrees, Ancestris and Ahnenblatt.
Gramps is a Free Software Project for Genealogy, offering a professional cross-platform genealogy program, and a wiki open to all.




Genealogy service supporting family tree creation online or offline, advanced ancestor search in 5.2 billion records, Smart Matching, face detection in photos, interactive charts, family website hosting, event planning, Google Maps integration, and collaborative editing.




Webtrees 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).








Ahnenblatt is genealogy software for Windows. (Use Portable Version for Linux with Wine)



LifeLines is a genealogy program to help with your family history research. Its primary strengths are its powerful scripting language and the ability easily import and export information in the GEDCOM format.

Family Historian is a family tree program offering great diagram facilities.
It was praised in particular for its ability to enter data directly from diagrams and for its multi-media capabilities.



GenoPro is easy to use genealogy software to create family trees and genograms.






Gramps Web is a web app for collaborative genealogy. It is based on and interoperable with Gramps, the leading open source genealogy desktop application. Gramps Web is free & open source software and puts your privacy and your...




Legacy is a full-featured genealogy program that assists family historians in tracking, organizing, printing, and sharing family history. The standard edition is distributed as freeware, with no restrictions, only requiring registration on the companys web site to download the...


