How Treenion works
A short walk through what you can do here, from the first person to the tree of a whole family.
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One tree, many hands
Whoever creates a family is its administrator and can invite relatives by e-mail. Invited relatives join as contributors: they add persons and facts, which the others then confirm. Some can be verifiers only, some readers only – the administrator decides. There can be several administrators, so the tree does not depend on one person.
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People, places and time
For each person you can record the names they went by, the father's name, dates and places of birth and death – the village, the town, the country as it is called today and as it was called then – where they lived and where they travelled. Unknown data stays empty and can be filled in later, by you or by someone who knows.
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Stories and legends
Every person can carry stories: what really happened, told as a story, and what the family says happened, told as a legend. Both are kept, both are marked for what they are. This is the part a tree of names alone would lose.
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Verified together
What a contributor adds waits until enough other family members approve it, and anyone can mark a fact as verified or disputed. Disagreements have a place too: each person has a discussion thread where the family can talk it over.
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Your privacy, your choice
A new family tree is private: only its members see it. The administrators may open it to families from the same places, or to everyone, for reading only. Each person in the tree and each member can additionally limit how visible they are.
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Finding each other
Families that have opened their tree can be found by name or by the places their ancestors came from. When two families discover they have been writing about the same people, they can link the records or merge their trees – carefully, with the approval of the administrators on both sides, and with the possibility of undoing it.
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Anywhere, in your language
The site works on a computer, a tablet and a phone, in the language you choose.
Ready? Start your family tree – it's free.