Create your family tree for free

Grow your family tree with MyHeritage, where advanced AI and billions of records help you uncover and preserve your family’s rich history.

How it works

Building your family tree with MyHeritage is easy and rewarding. Here’s how you can get started:

Build and grow your tree

Start by entering a few details about family: names, dates, places of birth and death, and whatever else you know about them. MyHeritage will automatically search for matching information in historical records and other family trees, and bring new discoveries straight to you. Add more relatives and details. The more information you add, the higher the chances of receiving new discoveries.

Explore historical records

Search MyHeritage’s extensive database to find historical records, photos, and documents related to your family history.

Explore 33.3 billion historical records from all over the world to uncover new details about your ancestors or verify what you already know.

Enhance your research with DNA

Take a MyHeritage DNA test to gain deeper insights into your heritage and receive a breakdown of your ethnic origins from across 2,114 regions.

Connect with new relatives and verify relationships through cutting-edge DNA technology.

Leverage a comprehensive suite of DNA tools to understand how your DNA Matches are related to you.

Grow your family tree with MyHeritage

where advanced AI and billions of records help you uncover and preserve your family’s rich history.

Why Build a Family Tree on MyHeritage?

MyHeritage is the perfect platform for growing your family tree and preserving your family’s story for future generations. Here are some of the benefits:

Innovative technology makes it easy

MyHeritage’s automatic matching features help you make new discoveries and grow your tree quickly. Bring old family photos to life with AI features that enhance, repair, colorize, and even animate them. The Consistency Checker scans your tree for potential errors and recommends fixes.

Huge, globally diverse database

Explore billions of historical records from Europe, the U.S., and dozens of other countries, many of them exclusive. Receive matches from the most globally diverse database of family trees and DNA kits.

Privacy and security

Several layers of robust protection ensure private information remains safe and secure. Maintain full control over your privacy with fully customizable settings. MyHeritage is deeply committed to the privacy and security of customer data.

Collaborate and share with your family

Invite family members to view and enhance your tree. Create beautiful family tree charts to share your research. Easily share your scanned and enhanced family photos.

Access your tree from anywhere

Seamlessly move between the desktop and mobile versions of your tree. The free downloadable Family Tree Builder software allows you to work on your tree even without an internet connection, and syncs automatically with your online tree. Update your tree on the go, make audio recordings, and scan photos directly to your tree using your phone with the MyHeritage Mobile App.

Stay updated

MyHeritage sends you regular email updates with new matches for your tree. New historical record collections and family trees are constantly being added to MyHeritage, increasing your chances of making new discoveries.

What is a family tree?

A family tree is a visual representation of your family's lineage that maps out the relationships between different family members across generations. It typically begins with a single individual and branches out to show parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and so on, often including siblings, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Family trees are used to trace ancestral heritage, understand family history, and identify hereditary patterns or connections.

FAQ

How do I start building my family tree?

Your family tree starts with you. Enter your own name, date of birth, and place of birth. Next, add these details for your parents and each of your grandparents. The more information you add to your tree, the larger it grows, and the more you can discover.

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Begin your journey to discover your heritage

Enter a few names and details, and MyHeritage’s powerful technologies will help you grow your tree and make new discoveries!