Your webtrees family tree
as a desktop program

News

What was added recently

• 1.55 · 18 October 2026Every detail of an event: events show everything the server knows – age, cause of death, agency, phone, e-mail and any other detail, labelled in your language, in the timeline, the person sheet and in print. Needs api4webtrees 1.23.
• 1.54 · 15 October 2026Visibility in three levels, CompGen meta search: books for everyone (manager view), for members or for visitors – the website is always for visitors. For any person, the surname can be looked up in the CompGen meta search (GEDBAS, address books, online local family books, casualty lists and more); only the surname and, if you like, a place are sent. Also in gedaudit.
• 1.53 · 14 October 2026Complete GEDCOM-L, books to pass on: every item of the GEDCOM-L addendum appears – address, GOV identifier, postal code and Maidenhead locator at events, unique identifier, highlighted image, all research task fields, earlier names, postal codes, municipality key and population at the location record; family status, main image and task fields can be edited, and saving keeps every GEDCOM-L item. Books can leave out everything webtrees hides from visitors (“Only what visitors may see”), the website always does. Needs api4webtrees 1.21.
• 1.52 · 13 October 2026Local heritage book as a view and as a website: View › Layout › Local heritage book reads the family book live with jumping pointers and houses on the right; the family book saves as a website (start page, all families, each family on its own page, houses, indexes) or per person; living people name only or omitted; book templates; update check in the status bar.
• 1.51 · 13 October 2026Addresses to houses, save as GEDCOM, place display: Tools › Clean up places turns events with a place and an address into places of their own with location record and pointer; the tree on this PC saves itself as GEDCOM or GEDZIP; View › Place display with country, country code and home country; fan chart and ancestor circle by sex; copying in the person sheet.
• 1.50 · 12 October 2026Farms for other programs: events at a farm carry the pointer to its location record, as the farm list of the Online-OFB needs it; GOV type in the place dialog, pointers for existing data in one click. Also: the map follows the mouse again when dragged, dates in books in your own language, anniversaries “living only”.

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Features

What the program can do

Navigator and person sheet

The tree as in a classic genealogy program, input with tabs or as a simple form.

Family and table

Family view with ancestors over four generations, children with spouses and grandchildren; person table with filter and CSV.

Sources

Maintain sources and repositories, document with page and citation, attach scans to the source or the citation.

Archive and group photos

Photos and documents that need not belong to anyone; faces on group photos with names on hover.

Places

All places with a map, GOV hierarchy and look-up links; merge spellings.

Godparents and witnesses

Under baptism and marriage, clickable, with note and source – and record them as in the church register.

Plausibility check

61 rules find what cannot be right – from death before birth to a godparent who is too young.

Charts

Fifteen chart types from the ancestor circle to the timeline, up to the plotter or on A4 sheets to paste together.

Lists and books

Ancestor, descendant and place lists, plus ancestor book, descendant book and family book as PDF, DOCX, HTML or TeX.

Without a server

Without webtrees, too: open a GEDCOM file and the family tree runs on your own PC.

All features in detail →   The program in pictures →   All 61 check rules →

Requirements

What you need

All images: entirely fictional demo family tree “Familie Falkenrath” (CC0), photos of unknown people from the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (CC0). webtrees is a project by Greg Roach and contributors; wtWin, wtTux and wtMac are independent of it. This English version is a translation by the author, not by a native speaker. Corrections are welcome as a GitHub issue.