Draw My Tree docs
Short guides for everything you can do in the app. Pick a topic to dive in, or start with Getting started if you just signed up.
Start here
Sign in or start as a guest, create your first family tree, and find your way around the canvas, the toolbar, the rail and the keyboard shortcuts.
How to export a GEDCOM file from Ancestry, MyHeritage or another program, get one out of FamilySearch through a partner program, and bring it into Draw My Tree.
Add people and link them as parents, children and partners, set the order of siblings, merge duplicates, fold a branch away and find anyone in a big tree.
Using Draw My Tree
Write a story for each person in your tree, and add photos and videos, a profile picture, and dated records with their sources.
Change how your family tree is drawn: the layout, the generations, the lines between people, the cards, the fonts and colors, and the canvas behind them.
Print your family tree from letter size to a wall poster: which format to choose, page and poster sizes, the look, watermarks, and printable reports.
Invite family by email to view or edit your tree, publish a read-only link that hides living relatives, and handle privacy requests.
Export your family tree as GEDCOM, JSON or CSV for another app, a spreadsheet or a backup, and what to check before you send a file to anyone.
Keep several ways of drawing one family, and share each on its own link.
What a free account, a Keepsake and the Family Plan include; upgrading, cancelling and gifts; storage, Trash, notifications, and deleting your account.
Charts and reports
A numbered pedigree chart of one person's direct ancestors, two to seven generations, drawn from your tree and printed as a PDF at any size.
Draw an ancestor fan chart, a descendant fan or an hourglass from your tree or a GEDCOM file, and print it as a PDF from letter size to a poster.
One ancestor and everyone who came after them, with the people they married, as a tree, a fan or a numbered register, printed at any size.
Every person's life as a bar on one line of years, so you can see who was alive at the same time. Drawn from your tree, printed as a PDF.
Where your family came from and where it went: every birthplace and home on one map, with a line for each move, drawn from the places in your tree.
A filled-in family group sheet for any couple in your tree: both partners, the marriage and the children, with dates and places, ready to print.
How Ahnentafel numbering works, and how to print a numbered ancestor report and a descendant register from your family tree.
A blank family tree, pedigree charts of four to seven generations, fan, descendant and cousin charts, and a family group sheet to print free, in Letter and A4.
Print from another app
Export a GEDCOM from Ancestry, draw it, and print a vector PDF at any size from a letter sheet to a wall chart.
Export a GEDCOM from MyHeritage, draw it, and print a vector PDF at any size from a letter sheet to a wall chart.
FamilySearch has no GEDCOM export. Get your ancestors out through a partner program, then draw and print them as a PDF at any size, up to a poster.
Export a GEDCOM from Family Tree Maker or RootsMagic, draw it as a tree, fan or timeline, and print a vector PDF from a letter sheet to a poster.
Turn a .ged file into a print-ready PDF, SVG, or PNG of the drawn tree.
Open a .ged file in your browser and see it as a family tree you can search, follow line by line, and print. Free, with nothing to install.
Pick two people in your tree and see how they are related, from 2nd cousin once removed to in-laws, with the ancestors they share and the line between them.
See how far back each line of your tree goes, which ancestors appear twice because cousins married, and who is missing a date, a place or parents.
Start with yourself, gather what the family kept, ask relatives, and put each generation in a tree on paper or online, then print it.
What to ask parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles about the family, how to run the conversation, and where to keep the answers in your tree.
Which chart shows siblings, aunts, uncles and cousins, who counts as each, and how to add and draw one set of cousins from the grandparents down.
Advanced and help
Connect Claude or another MCP-compatible AI assistant to your family tree, so it can read your people, research gaps and record findings with sources.
The Draw My Tree JSON format, field by field, for exporting a family tree, changing it with scripts and importing it back.
Fixes for a family tree that feels slow or shows a blank canvas: picking the fast graphics chip on a laptop, and what to do when WebGL is not supported.
Legal
What data we collect, how we use it, and your choices.
The agreement that governs your use of Draw My Tree.
The cookies and browser storage Draw My Tree uses, from staying signed in to remembering your settings, what each one is for and how to manage them.
Subscriptions, cancellation, and refunds.
Draw My Tree aims to meet WCAG 2.2 AA: what we do to get there, how the family tree canvas works with a keyboard and screen reader, and known limits.