Open Family Archive

A family tree that stays on your machine

View, edit and print your family tree without uploading it anywhere. The app runs in your browser; the data is one file on your own disk. Free, no account, and it prints a full-circle fan chart.

The sample is an invented family of 75, opened in memory. It never touches an archive you already have here.

Where the data lives

In a JSON file you pick, on your own disk, or in this browser's private storage until you pick one. Nothing is sent to a server; there is no server holding a copy.

How to check that

Open the browser's developer tools, watch the network tab, and use the app. After the page loads, nothing leaves. Pull the network cable and it keeps working.

Two ways to read one family

A full-circle descendant fan built to be printed and handed to somebody, and a navigable tree for walking a line in both directions on screen.

Your backups are yours

The Archive page downloads a lossless JSON copy or a GEDCOM for other genealogy software, and keeps undo points before anything that replaces the archive.

Chart links only work in the browser that holds the archive. To share a chart, send a picture or a printed sheet. Why this exists.