The Family Tree¶

The family tree gives you a graphical view of how your relatives connect. It's an interactive map where you can navigate, zoom, search, and filter — and jump directly to a person's details with a single click.

Getting started¶

Go to Family Tree in the main menu. The tree won't display until you've chosen a focus person — use the search field in the top right and start typing a name.

Why does the tree need a focus person?

A complete family history can contain hundreds or thousands of people. Drawing them all at once would be unmanageable. The focus person is your starting point — from here, ancestors, descendants, and partners are drawn out in relation to that specific person.

Choose a focus person — Start by choosing which person you want the tree to be built around. You can scroll, but it's easiest to just start typing a name.

Person cards¶

Each person is shown as a card in the tree with:

A profile picture or a gender icon if no picture exists
Name
Year of birth and year of death (or age, if the person is living)
A small status indicator in the corner — green for living, gray for deceased

Legend: - Yellow border = focus person, the person chosen to build the tree around - Blue border = living (or not registered as deceased) - Brown border = deceased - Figure = gender - Cake with year = year of birth - Figure with age = current age - Calendar with cross = year of death

Click a card¶

Clicking a person card opens a quick view with the person's details. From there you can also go straight to editing.

Right-click a card¶

Right-clicking (or a long press) opens a quick menu with the person's closest relationships — parents, partner, children, and siblings — without leaving the tree view.

Focus on a person¶

Each card has a small focus-lens button (visible on hover) in the top left corner. Clicking it makes that card the new focus person, and the tree is redrawn with that person as the new center point.

Navigate the tree¶

The tree is freely movable and zoomable:

Scroll with the mouse to zoom in and out
Click and drag on the background to pan
The "Center view" button (a target icon in the toolbar) centers and adjusts the zoom level so the whole tree fits on screen

Generation filter¶

Once a focus person is chosen, you can limit how many generations are shown with the generation filter (an expandable section under the toolbar):

Generations upward — how many generations of ancestors are shown (0–10)
Generations downward — how many generations of descendants are shown (0–10)

There are shortcut buttons for common choices: 1 gen, 2 gen, 3 gen, and All.

The generation filter is hidden until you choose a focus person

The filter is only relevant in relation to a focus person, so it isn't shown until you've chosen one.

Family tree with generation filter and buttons for statistics, printing, and more

Multiple partners¶

If a person has had several partners, a partner switcher is shown — a small navigation element next to the card showing which partner is currently active and how many there are in total. Use the arrows to browse.

Unknown parent¶

If a person has registered children but is missing a registered parent on one side, an "Unknown" card with a dashed border is shown. It's a reminder that there's a gap to fill in. Click the card to add a new parent.

Search the tree¶

The toolbar has a search field for finding people in the current tree. Matching cards are highlighted with a green border.

The search filters the visible tree — if a person isn't shown within the current generation selection, they won't be found by the search.

Export as PDF¶

Click the PDF icon in the toolbar to export the current tree as a PDF file. You can specify:

File name
Paper size — e.g. A4 or A3
Orientation — portrait or landscape
Image quality
Whether to include metadata (date, number of people, active filters)
Whether to use a white background (recommended for printing)

The export always reflects the current view — if you have a generation filter or a search active, the filtered version is what gets exported.

Tips for large trees

For a tree with many generations, landscape A3 (or even larger) at high image quality gives the best results.

Statistics¶

Click the bar chart icon in the toolbar to open the statistics panel. It shows key figures for your entire family history:

Overview — total number of persons, split into living and deceased.

Age statistics — average age of living persons, average age at death for deceased persons, and the oldest and youngest in each group.

Gender distribution — count and percentage per gender.

Relationships — number of partner, parent–child, and sibling relationships, broken down by whether they involve living or deceased persons.

Generation span — how many generations the tree spans.

Time span — the earliest and most recent registered dates of birth and death across the entire database.

Find the statistics — Click the chart icon.

Family tree with statistics — The statistics show a summary of the information about the people in the tree.

What's shown in the tree?¶

The tree is built on the relationships you've registered. It's the direct connections — parent–child, partner, sibling — that determine how the tree looks. Indirect kinship (grandmother, cousin, brother-in-law) is calculated in the background but isn't shown as its own nodes; it's reflected in the structure.