Every place in your tree, pinned
Upload a GEDCOM and every recorded birthplace appears on the map. Nearby pins gather into clusters and split apart as you zoom in. Click a pin to see everyone born there.
Death and marriage places are one click away as separate layers. Each kind has its own pin so you can tell them apart at a glance: a sprout for a birth, a headstone for a death, rings for a marriage. A marriage pin lists the couples. A death pin lists who died there.
Four ways to read the map
Everything below is the built-in royal example. Load it yourself with the See an example button.
Every birthplaceThe whole tree on one map. Switch on death and marriage places, and click any pin to see who is there. Trace a person's rootsWalk one family line back, generation by generation. Gold arrows join each ancestor to where they were born. Your family over timePress play or drag the year slider. Watch places appear, and watch the family move. One person's full lifeJust this person's places: birth, marriage, death, and every residence, census, or burial with a place.
Trace a person's roots: an ancestor migration map
Pick anyone in your tree and choose Trace this person's roots. They land on their birthplace. At each step you choose Father or Mother, and that parent appears on their own birthplace, joined to the last generation by a curved migration arrow. Keep going as far back as the record reaches.
You open one line at a time, never the whole tree at once, so the map stays readable. Close the father's line and open the mother's. Each label shows the relationship, the name, the birth year, and the place.
An ancestor with no recorded birthplace still appears, as a grey question-mark pin beside their child. It is never dropped on a guessed spot, so the arrows you see are the places the record actually gives.
One person's full life
From anyone's card, choose Show this person's places. Everything else clears away and you see just their pins: birth, marriage, death, and any residence, census, christening, burial, military, or immigration event that carries a place. Each pin lists its years. Occupations from the file show under the person's name.
Your family over time
Play the years
Press play and watch places appear as the years pass, or drag the year slider to any point. Slow it to one year per second, or speed it up.
Step event by event
Previous and next buttons walk through births, deaths, and marriages one at a time. The map pans to each one.
Two ways to look
Cumulative shows every place recorded up to that year. Living shows only the birthplaces of people alive in that year, so you can see the family move.
See where the years are busy
Marks under the slider show which years hold the most events, so you know where to slow down.
Getting around
Search and the people list
Find anyone by name and the map flies to them. Coverage counts show how many people are mapped, how many are estimated, and how many have no location.
Hop through relatives
Every person's card lists parents, siblings, spouses, and children. Click any of them to move across the map.
Back and forward
Retrace the people you have looked at, on the map and in every chart.
Same people, four other views
Switch to the pedigree, fan, lifespan, or insights view and the person you selected stays selected.
Honest about what the record shows
A person with no birthplace can be given an estimated country from their family. That estimate is shown as a soft, dashed marker, kept off by default, and never counted as mapped. A guess is never drawn as a fact.
Then share the map
When you are ready, publish your tree as a link anyone can open, or embed the map on your own website with one line of code. Viewers need no account and pay nothing. People who may still be living are hidden by default, and you can add a password.
Your file stays yours
Your GEDCOM is read once to draw the map, then discarded. Place names are matched on our own server against public geographic data, so your tree is never sent to an outside geocoding service. We never keep a searchable database of the people in your tree. The only trees we keep are the ones you choose to save or share from your own account. Read the privacy policy.
The map works on phones and tablets too. Pan and pinch like any map.
Questions
- Can I map my Ancestry, MyHeritage, or FamilySearch tree?
- Yes. Export your tree as a GEDCOM file from any of them, then upload the file here. Every recorded birthplace, marriage place, and death place is placed on the map.
- What happens to people with no recorded place?
- They stay in the people list, marked as having no location, and never appear on the map as if they had one. In the ancestor trace they show as a grey question-mark pin beside their child, never on a guessed spot.
- Does it understand old place names?
- Place names are matched against a large public gazetteer, which includes many historical and alternate names. A place that cannot be matched is listed for you under the coverage counts, so you can see exactly which ones were left off.
- Is the family tree map free?
- Yes. Uploading a GEDCOM and viewing your own tree on the map is free, with no account. You only pay if you want to share the map publicly by link or embed it on a website.
- Is my family data stored?
- No. Your file is read once to draw the map, then discarded. We never keep a searchable database of the people in your tree. The only trees kept are the ones you choose to save or share from your own account.
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