About family.ancestry

An open-source family tree app: what you'd use Ancestry for, without the subscription, and without your family's history becoming someone else's product. Your tree is private to the people you invite. Nothing is sold, matched or shown to strangers.

Use it everywhere

• Web and phone: install it from your browser's menu ("Install app" / "Add to Home Screen").
• Desktop: the family.ancestry app for macOS, Windows and Linux (GitHub releases).
• CLI: bun add -g familyancestry, then ancestry login, ancestry people <tree>, ancestry import tree.ged, ancestry pedigree <person>.
• Terminal app: ancestry tui.
• AI assistants: claude mcp add ancestry -- ancestry mcp lets your assistant search and add to the trees you share with it.
• API: JSON under /api/v1 with a bearer token; see the README.

Bring your tree

Every genealogy site exports GEDCOM. Import it on the Trees page; export yours any time from a tree's page, optionally with living people hidden.

Source: github.com/moshcoder/family.ancestry (MIT).