Time-Line Continuum: family trees
Your family, generation by generation.
A family tree that keeps the people, the dates and the places together, and lets you follow a family forwards through time, the same way a timeline follows a story.
One person at the centre, and every generation after
The same idea, applied to a family
A timeline puts one story in order. A family tree puts the people in order, and once it does, the stories start to connect. Who was where, and when; which generation lived through what; how a name travels down a family.
People and dates in one place
Births, marriages, deaths and the relationships between them, held together rather than scattered across notes, spreadsheets and old emails.
Follow the line down
Put anyone at the centre and see their children, their grandchildren and everyone after them. Move the centre to another person and the whole view rebuilds around them.
Private by default
A family tree is not public information. Yours is visible to you and to nobody else, and it is kept out of search engines.
Built to be added to
Family history is never finished. Add a person whenever you learn one, correct a date whenever you find it, and the tree grows instead of ageing.
Three ways to look at the same family
The same people, drawn three ways. Switch between them whenever you like; nothing is entered twice.
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The circular view
One person at the centre, each ring a further generation. The showpiece, and the quickest way to see the shape of a whole family.
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The traditional view
The familiar chart, with parents above and children below. The one to use when you want to trace a single line carefully.
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The timeline view
Every life laid out against the years, so you can see which generation lived through what, and who overlapped with whom.
Free while we are getting started
TLC Family is free to use right now. If we ever introduce a charge, we will tell you first, and nothing you have recorded will ever be locked away from you.
Start with one person.
Begin with yourself, or with the oldest relative you can name. Everyone else is added around them afterwards, in any direction, whenever you learn something new.